Douglas Adams, the famous author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, is having one of his book series, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency?, picked up by BBC for a TV series. Howard Overman will be adapting the books to make them suitable for television. Howard is known for scripting the superhero comedy-drama Misfits, with ITV Studios, and should do a fine job with this new series.

Supposedly the new series will screen on BBC4, and have a 60 minute air time. The pilot episode will have Gently trying to solve the disappearance of an old woman’s cat, which is from the first Gentley book written by Adams.

Adams is known for his amazing work on The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, which was eventually turned into an audio series played on the radio, and first broadcast on March 8th 1978. If the pilot episode does well we should expect BBC4 to pick up many more.