The series will be eight episodes long and will begin on Boxing Day on BBC One. Han Zimmer, who is behind The Lion King and Pirates of the Caribbean films soundtracks, and Christian Lundberg will be composing the music to help bring this drama to life. The trio will travel on horses, boats, trains, camels and a hot air balloon as they travel to France, Italy, India, Hong Kong, a desert island, San Francisco, New York, Liverpool, and London. Phileas will have to rely on his clever creations and inventions throughout his trip and the series is set in 1872. Joining him on this epic adventure is his new valet Passepartout (Ibrahim Koma), who is on the run from fighting in a kitchen, and a journalist Abigail Fix (Leonie Benesch). Tennant will be playing Phileas Fogg who places a bet that he can circumnavigate the world in just 80 days. Someone refers to flying “like an angel.Around The World in 80 Days is the new BBC adventure drama and is based on the same-titled novel by Jules Verne and stars David Tennant in the leading role. We hear a use of “d–n.” God’s name is misused a few times as well. A newspaper editor changes a female writer’s name to be male so as not to upset readers. A French waiter purposely drops ice on a man after the man insults France. A nun extorts Fogg for a donation after she gets his luggage back.
Someone jokes that the French don’t behead rich people anymore.Ī man vomits over the side of a boat. (He faints after seeing a shard of glass has impaled his hand.) A woman is rudely knocked to the ground. Two men get into a fistfight, and one gets shoved into several dinner plates. A man examines bullet holes in the wall where his father was executed. We hear that a French revolutionist was murdered in front of his two young sons.
(He is OK since the bullet hits a flask hidden in his pocket.) During a shootout with police, the assassins are all killed. Several men attempt to assassinate the French president. Phileas Fogg bets a fortune he can traverse the globe in 80 days or less. Instead, Around the World in 80 Days will remind viewers of other PBS shows like Downton Abbey.Įpisode Reviews Jan. And there’s hints of sensuality (though nothing graphic or overtly sexual as of yet).īut on balance, you won’t find the same content concerns in this TV-14 PBS series as you might in some other British period pieces (such as Netflix’s TV-MA Bridgerton).
Mild language also pops up every now and then. And unfortunately, he witnesses the murders of more loved ones (which we see on screen) before the series’ end. He’s a serious Frenchman whose father was murdered before his eyes. However, it’s quite different from the PG-rated 2004 film starring Jackie Chan (which was, itself, a remake of the Oscar-winning 1956 movie). … 80 ProblemsĪdapted from the 1872 novel of the same name by Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days is, at times, a light-hearted adventure. In order to win the bet, not to mention protect his already shaky reputation, everything will have to go just right on his journey.Īnd considering the first leg of his trip is delayed by a French revolution, the odds are not in his favor. Of course, he’s not really a valet at all but rather a vagabond travelling from country to country in an attempt to escape (and forget) his past.īut these strange companions are the least of Fogg’s worries. As the daughter of one of Fogg’s dearest friends, she knows he’ll protect her-not to mention give her the story of a lifetime.įogg’s valet, Passepartout, also joins Phileas for the trip. 80 Days …Ībigail Fortescue (a journalist going by the pen name Abigail Fix) accompanies Phileas on his journey. on Christmas Eve after traversing the globe in 80 days or less. He’ll return to the swanky Reform Club by 1 o’clock p.m. So, he puts 20,000 pounds (or the equivalent of nearly $5 million today) on the line. While it’s true he failed his first attempt to travel the world-he never made it out of England-he doesn’t feel he deserves such ridicule. “If a man was well-organized, and of a resilient and indefatigable nature, took advantage of recent technological advances…” Phileas Fogg tells us, then it could be possible to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days.īut Phileas grows wearisome of the constant jokes at his expense.
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