![]() France Télévisions introduced the project to their Alliance broadcasting partners Germany’s ZDF and Italy’s RAI, while Seven West Media have backed production and will broadcast the drama in Australia. The producer is Peter McAleese (The Gunman, Harley & The Davidsons).Īround The World In 80 Days is a Slim Film + Television and Federation co-production for the European Alliance formed by France Télévisions, ZDF and RAI, with additional co-production partners, Peu Communications in South Africa, MASTERPIECE in the US, Be-FILMS and RTBF in Belgium and associate produced by Daro Film. The series, adapted by a team of writers led by Ashley Pharoah (Life on Mars, The Living and the Dead) and Caleb Ranson (Child of Mine, Heartless), is a truly international drama, helmed by film, television and music video director Steve Barron (The Durrells, Treasure Island) with Charles Beeson (The Mentalist, Supernatural) also directing a number of episodes. ![]() Guest actors joining the cast include Lindsay Duncan (A Discovery of Witches, Le Weekend), Dolly Wells (Dracula, The Pursuit of Love), Richard Wilson (Merlin, One Foot in the Grave), Faical Elkihel (The Spy, Prison Break), Anthony Flanagan (The Terror, Gentleman Jack), Gary Beadle (Small Axe, Patrick Melrose) and Giovanni Scifoni (DOC – Nelle Tue Mani, La Mia Jungla). Joining Tennant are French actor Ibrahim Koma (OSS 177, Wulu) as Fogg’s irrepressible valet, Passepartout and Leonie Benesch (The Crown, Babylon Berlin) as determined and headstrong journalist, Abigail ‘Fix’ Fortescue.Īlso starring as series regulars are Jason Watkins (Des, The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies) as Fix’s father and newspaper owner, Bernard Fortescue and Peter Sullivan (Poldark, The Borgias) as Fogg’s sceptical childhood friend, Nyle Bellamy with whom Fogg makes an outrageous wager to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days. Production of the eight-part series will be spread across locations and studios in Romania and South Africa over a five-month period. ![]() Filming has resumed in Romania on Slim Film and TV’s adaptation of Jules Verne classic, Around The World In 80 Days, starring David Tennant as Phileas Fogg.
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