‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ TV Series Coming to Hulu!
By Wade Wainio
Douglas Adams’s ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ will soon be coming to Hulu. Let’s look at what is known so far, shall we?
According to a report from Deadline, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is coming to Hulu and that it will be run by Carlton Cuse & Jason Fuchs, in conjunction with ABC Signature and Genre Arts. While not much is yet known about the new series (the cast, premiere dates, story arcs, etc.), it has been a successful franchise and will likely continue to be.
Not everyone’s aware of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy story line, but there are plenty of different ways to get acquainted.
Originally a radio comedy, Hitchhiker’s Guide has expanded into novels, comic books, stage shows, video games and a 2005 film starring Martin Freeman, Sam Rockwell, Mos Def and Zooey Deschanel. It also had a different TV series in 1981, produced for BBC 2, and yet another series 2016 TV series called Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency.
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Also, even if you’ve never heard names like Arthur Dent, Zaphod Beeblebrox or Slartibartfast, there’s a chance you’ve heard the Radiohead song, “Paranoid Android,” named after a Hitchhiker’s Guide character.
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Carlton Cuse made the Time magazine list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2010. How did that happen? He’s stayed very busy over the years, helping to create many successful series. These include Lost, Nash Bridges, Bates Motel. The Strain, The Returned, Colony and Locke & Key.
Cuse and Genre Arts have a four-year overall deal with ABC Studios, allowing for considerable flexibility with project ideas. In 2009, Cuse won the Peabody Award, The Jules Verne Festival Award, The Roma Fiction Fest Special Award, and even a GQ 2009 Men of the Year Award.
Jason Fuchs is known for writing the films Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012), Pan (2015) and Wonder Woman (2017). He’s also an actor, appearing in FOX’s The Passage, The Sopranos, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, among other things.
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It’s also clear that, because Disney owns ABC, they will be involved in the show’s development, as well as other Cuse projects. It’s not yet known how long fans will have before a premiere, but Cuse’s track record shows he knows how to get things done.
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