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Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency is a sci-fi fantasy mystery dark comedy-drama series created by Max Landis. Based on the novel series of the same name by Douglas Adams, the BBC America series follows Todd Brotzman, a down-and-out bellhop who unwittingly becomes the side-kick of Dirk Gently, an eccentric holistic detective. They team up to solve a complex case involving various weird phenomena. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency stars Samuel Barnett, Elijah Wood, Hannah Marks, Fiona Dourif, Jade Eshete, Mpho Koaho, Michael Eklund, Dustin Milligan, and Osric Chau. So, if you loved the entertaining story, eccentric characters, and hilarious comedy in Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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Utopia is a British sci-fi mystery dark comedy-drama series created by Dennis Kelly.

The Smell of Petrol is the second film by award winning writer/director and actor Branko Tomovic. Cosima Shaw (Mars, V for Vendetta) stars as the main character Jackie. The exciting cast also includes Laurence Spellman, Jumaan Short (Mother), Jonas Khan (Rock the Kasbah), Alexander Devrient (The Danish Girl), Liane-Rose Bunce (Homeward) and Christopher Sciueref (300: Rise of an Empire).  The film highlights the dark and brutal world of human trafficking and shines a light on the people involved in such operations. It's a character study of a woman who is working as a trafficker for illegal immigrants but is faced with an unbearable task which forces her to take a look at her actions.  The...

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The narrative elements take center stage in Mars season 2, but the inclusion of non-fiction parallels is still a unique aspect of the show.

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When Nat Geo’s Mars first hit the scene, it was praised for its successful blending of speculative fiction and documentary-style non-fiction, but it was also criticized for the imbalance between an understated story of the future and a much more interesting look at the present-day state of our Mars aspirations. Viewers may be happy to hear that when the series returns on November 12, they’ll notice a shift towards a much more dramatic tale of love and loss on the red planet, but with that change of focus comes the occasional deficiency in the illustrative examples from our own situation on Earth.

In some episodes of the new season, the non-fiction explorations perfectly mirror what’s going on in the story of the Mars colonists,...

The Smell of Petrol is the second film by award winning writer/director and actor Branko Tomovic. Cosima Shaw stars as the main character Jackie. The exciting cast also includes Laurence Spellman, Jumaan Short (Mother), Jonas Khan (Rock the Kasbah), Alexander Devrient (The Danish Girl), Liane-Rose Bunce (Homeward) and Christopher Sciueref (300: Rise of an Empire). The film highlights the dark and brutal world of human trafficking and shines a light on the people involved in such operations. It's a character study of a woman who is working as a trafficker for illegal immigrants but is faced with an unbearable task which forces her to take a look at her actions. ...

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The Smell of Petrol  is the second film by award winning writer/director and actor Branko Tomovic (24: Live Another Day, Luna, The Bourne Ultimatum). The film highlights the dark and brutal world of human trafficking and shines a light on the people involved in such operations. It's a character study of a woman who is working as a trafficker for illegal immigrants but is faced with an unbearable task which forces her to take a look at her actions. Cosima Shaw stars as the main character Jackie. Cosima's filmography includes The Danish Girl, Doctor Who, The Odd Couple, Stolen and V for Vendetta. She won the Best Actress award at the British Independent Film Festival for her leading role in Ana Begins and currently stars in the NatGeo series Mars produced by Ron Howard....

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National Geographic has released the trailer for Season 2 of the event series “Mars,” executive produced by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard. The new episodes take place on a newly colonized planet, and frankly, the technologically impressive settings and state of adventure look ideal compared to the political mess of paranoia here on Earth.

Season 2 picks up several years into the future after the Daedalus crew, a group of carefully selected astronauts, finished building the ultimate colony on Mars called Olympus Town. The new episodes, set to premiere in Spring 2018, examines the impact that humans would have on the Red Planet.

Produced by Imagine Entertainment and RadicalMedia, “Mars” also examines the potential consequences that the planet would have on humans, such as the scientific and personal detriments. Through scripted drama, special effects, and documentary sequences, National Geographic continues to transport audiences to a different world with scientifically literate programming.

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The Smell of Petrol is the second short film by award winning writer/director Branko Tomovic. The film highlights the dark and brutal world of human trafficking and shines a light on the people involved in such operations. It's a character study of a woman who is working as a trafficker for illegal immigrants but is faced with an unbearable task which forces her to take a look at her actions. Cosima Shaw will star as he main character Jackie. Cosima's filmography includes The Danish Girl, Doctor Who, The Odd Couple, Stolen and V for Vendetta. She won the Best Actress award at the British Independent Film Festival for her leading role in Ana Begins and currently stars in the NatGeo series Mars produced by Ron Howard. The exciting cast also includes Laurence Spellman (Game...

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Exclusive: “The future is a fix” in Narcopolis, a thriller set in a city where the manufacture and use of all recreational drugs is legal. Director Justin Trefgarne, a former story editor at Working Title Films who has also worked with the UK’s Ruby Films, Ridley Scott Associates and Film4, makes his feature helming debut here. Heading into the Afm, Narcopolis, which employed an unconventional financing method, has been acquired by the UK’s Altitude Film Distribution and by Canada’s Mongrel Media. (See trailer above.)

In the film, Elliot Cowan (Da Vinci’s Demons) plays Frank Grieves, a police officer and former addict, who is called to investigate an unidentifiable corpse and pulled into a world infected with corruption and in which the only person upon whom he can rely is himself. Jonathan Pryce also stars with Elodie Yung (GI Joe: Retaliation), Harry Lloyd (Game Of Thrones), Cosima Shaw...

The Scariest Doctor Who Yet! So promised the creaky Doctor Who Hype Machine when promoting the penultimate Tenth Doctor escapade, The Waters Of Mars. The Hype Machine loves this turn of phrase, so much so that it seems to make every alternate story “The Scariest Yet”. I mean, the recent Impossible Astronaut two-parter was touted as The Scariest Yet, even though it wasn't that long after The Waters Of Mars. Well if slow-moving skull headed men in suits is your scary bag, fill your boots. Heaven alone knows what would have happened if they described the 13th and 14th seasons in this fashion: “The Talons Of Weng-Chiang! The scariest story yet! Well since The Robots Of Death anyway...”

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So at the back of The Doctor's mind is that nagging sense that the Bowie Base crew are not in for a happy time,...

19 year old Georgia Groome one of Screenterrier's top British rising stars under 20, is set to star alongside Stephen Dillane, in Greek family comedy Papadopoulos & Sons, the first feature film from up-and-coming director Marcus Markou, a Lamda graduate and playwright who made the short film The Last Temptation Of Chris in 2009.

Georgia (represented by United Agents) plays the daughter of a widowed Greek businessman (Stephen Dillane) who, after losing everything in the financial crash, sets about trying to resurrect the forgotten family fish & chip shop with the help of his children and larger-than-life brother.

20 year old Frank Dillane, the real-life son of Stephen Dillane, plays one of Georgia's brothers, James Papadopoulos. Frank played the 16 year old Tom Riddle in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and Deathly Hallows II. Frank is represented by Michelle Braidman Associates.

Georges Corraface and Ed Stoppard have also signed up to star in the film which...