It’s that old, old story. We’ve heard it a thousand times. Popular radio show and novel is adapted for telly, BBC series proves charming and slightly embarrassing, movie process begins, author dies, film is finished and released anyway with new characters, a ridiculously cute Marvin and too much emphasis on the Vogons, author’s estate green-lights novel by a completely different author for the already-milked-to-death trilogy ‘of five parts’. It’s sad news for millions of reasons. Douglas Adams is not Terry Pratchett, you can’t just make up a new book in his style. And why would you want to? Here at TVScoop towers we’re cheering ourselves up remembering and enjoying the old TV show, dodgy prosthetic head notwithstanding. Do you know where your towel is? (It’s over the jump.)
