{"id":5793,"date":"2016-03-23T09:48:10","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T13:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/elijah-wood-joins-dirk-gently\/"},"modified":"2016-03-23T14:09:02","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T18:09:02","slug":"elijah-wood-joins-dirk-gently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/elijah-wood-joins-dirk-gently\/","title":{"rendered":"Elijah Wood Joins BBC America\u2019s Dirk Gently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: Elijah Wood (<em>The Trust<\/em>, <em>Cooties<\/em>, <em>Wilfred<\/em>) has been cast in BBC America\u2019s new original scripted series <em>Dirk Gently<\/em>, set to premiere in the fall.<\/p>\n<p>The 8&#215;1-hour series is penned by Max Landis, who is behind the cult classic <em>Chronicle<\/em>. <em>Dirk Gently<\/em> is a co-production of AMC Studios, <span class=\"st\">Ideate Media<\/span> and IDW Entertainment with Circle of Confusion producing. The show follows the adventures of eccentric \u201cholistic\u201d detective Dirk Gently and his reluctant assistant Todd (played by Wood). It is an adaptation of Douglas Adams\u2019 (<em>Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy<\/em>, <em>Doctor Who<\/em>) successful comic novels.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Landis, executive producers include Ted Adams and David Ozer for IDW, David Alpert and Rick Jacobs for Circle of Confusion, and Zainir Aminullah and Arvind Ethan David for <span class=\"st\">Ideate Media<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: Elijah Wood (The Trust, Cooties, Wilfred) has been cast in BBC America\u2019s new original scripted series Dirk Gently, set to premiere in the fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[597,598,599],"class_list":["post-5793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories","tag-bbc-america","tag-dirk-gently","tag-elijah-wood","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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