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Douglas Adams’ creation Dirk Gently is heading back to TV, courtesy of IDW Entertainment and Ideate Media.

According to a report at Deadline, the companies have optioned worldwide rights to the novels – Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – and approached Chronicle’s Max Landis to write the pilot. They hope for a direct-to-series commitment for the project.

“Alongside the obvious yada yada I’m a lifelong fan, Long Dark Teatime Of The Soul is one of the best books ever,” Landis explained. “Douglas Adams is a visionary who forever changed the way science fiction is written and talked about and even thought about and even the way real actual science is thought about and without whom our culture would be noticeably different for the worse.”

IDW are also planning a Dirk Gently comic book series.

The character formed the basis of a well-received but short-lived BBC Four series starring Stephen Mangan