When the idea of traveling around the world in a mere eighty days comes up, it sparks a debate that morphs quickly into a wager, with Fogg betting £20,000 that he can achieve the feat and setting off with new valet Passepartout ( Ibrahim Koma), who is, in reality, a waiter escaping life as a rebel in France. The television adaptation of one of the greatest adventure novels ever written - and already renewed for a second season - is another chance for the star to strut his stuff as an awkward but endearing Englishman, though not without its fair share of missteps.Īround the World in 80 Days picks up as most adaptations of the classic Jules Verne novel do: with Phileas Fogg (Tennant), a refined English gentleman with a rather distracting mustache, lounging at London’s Reform Club with his equally refined (and equally stuffy) compatriots. It’s a fact that’s been true since the Scot’s casting in Doctor Who in 2005, continuing through his appearances in projects like Good Omens and DuckTales, and it’s hard not to think that that thought weighed heavily on the minds of Caleb Ranson and Ashley Pharoah, the creators behind PBS Masterpiece’s Around the World in 80 Days. Where David Tennant goes, avid fans will follow.
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