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When screenwriter Ashley Pharoah, best known for co-creating Life On Mars, first pitched his TV adaptation of Around The World In 80 Days, he envisioned it as a “love letter to travelling, to the world”. The irony was certainly not lost on him when, three weeks into shooting in South Africa during the early months of 2020, the production was shut down and suspended due to the pandemic.
“You couldn’t make it up,” he says with a laugh. “There were honestly times