Masterpiece, Around the World in 80 Days

PBS Western Reserve (WNEO 45.1 / WEAO 49.1):

Fridays at 9 PM beginning June 16
Saturdays at 2 AM beginning June 17

Literature’s most famous race against the calendar comes to MASTERPIECE with an innovative new adaptation of Jules Verne’s classic novel Around the World in Eighty Days. 

David Tennant stars as the Englishman who bets a fortune that he can circumnavigate the planet in a mere 80 days—quite a feat, considering that it is 1872. Ibrahim Koma and Leonie Benesch costar as his intrepid traveling companions on an expedition that packs far more adventure than the trio bargained for. 

Shot on location on two continents, the eight-episode miniseries follows our heroes as they head east from London on Oct. 5, 1872, intending to make it back to the reading room of the city’s snobbish Reform Club no later than one o’clock on Christmas Eve. En route, they take ships, trains, balloons, camels, stagecoaches and other conveyances, while meeting increasingly dangerous obstacles.