Coming Soon: Dirk Gently trailer

Following in the wonderfully quirky footsteps of Doctor Who and Sherlock Holmes, Dirk Gently has finally arrived at the BBC—and he’s looking good! Based on Douglas Adams’ Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, Stephen Mangan stars as the oddball holistic detective in the upcoming weekly series. The show is listed as “coming soon” to BBC Four, and while it’s not clear if/when Dirk Gently will be available in the U.S., given our first glimpse at the trailer below, we hope it’s sooner rather than later: