The big problem is that the Dirk Gently show came out in the UK at around the same time as Sherlock, and a lot of people seem to have thought of it as a ripoff, partly due to Stephen Mangan's similarities in hairstyle and (kind of) voice to Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock (though for Cumberbatch it's a wig and for…

I was so excited when I saw Elijah Wood on Colbert promoting this. I was disappointed when they completely undersold it, even more so when the clip made it seem like a Doctor Who ripoff (though I should at least cut slack given that the Mangan Dirk Gently seems like a Sherlock ripoff to the uneducated eye if viewed as…