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Seven on-sells Around the World in 80 Days

Seven was an original investor in big budget David Tennant miniseries but will not be broadcasting in Australia.

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EXCLUSIVE:

Seven has on-sold its broadcasting rights to big budget miniseries Around the World in 80 Days.

Seven was an investor in the series by Ashley Pharoah (Life on Mars) through its former production co-venture Slim Film + TV.

Starring David Tennant stars as adventurer Phileas Fogg, Ibrahim Koma as Passepartout and Leonie Benesch as Abigail, the 8 part series halted production in South Africa after just three weeks when the pandemic struck in March 2020. But it picked up again in Romania seven months later.

The series also features Jason Watkins (Des) and Peter Sullivan (Poldark). Guest actors include Lindsay Duncan (A Discovery Of Witches), Dolly Wells (Dracula), Richard Wilson (Merlin), Faical Elkihel (The Spy), Anthony Flanagan (The Terror), Gary Beadle (Patrick Melrose) and Giovanni Scifoni (Leonardo).

It screened in the UK in December to favourable reviews and has been renewed for a second season.

A new broadcaster is rumoured to be announcing Australian rights next week.

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  1. I really enjoyed this show. Seemed to barely make a ripple at the time though I thought. Figured it just fizzled out into the noise of 100 shows every month. No idea where Seven would schedule it though – Free to Reality TV doesn’t seem a place for this stuff anymore. Will be interesting to see who Seven can sell it too – don’t seem to have a subscription big brother partner.

  2. I can only speculate, of course, but if, somehow, I managed to have seen this already, I could certainly believe that I might consider this one of the best TV shows I’ve seen this year so far. But of course, I can’t possibly have seen it yet, so I must only imagine that scenario instead.

  3. Who needs quality drama when you’ve got a schedule loaded with celebrity reality shows?
    On the upside for viewers, it’ll hopefully land somewhere we can enjoy it without ads.

    1. I might be very wrong here, but it feels like the perfect show for after the news on a Saturday on either ABC/SBS, or very soon after, as Aunty did recently with ACG+S.

  4. Oh dear. I hope this isn’t the case – rather than show it for free, Seven makes more money by selling the rights to a Pay operator so we have to pay to watch it. Sport, movies, TV series. What we use to get for free, we now have to pay.

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