Having watched eps 3 & 4 tonight with another group of family members ranging from 12 to 84yrs (last week we were 15-75yrs), we were all agreed that there aren't enough big, beautiful family entertainment shows like this on our small screens any more and I felt compelled to add my (our) thoughts. I had already loved watching eps 1 and particularly 2 (where we were all on the edge of our seats) last week. Around the World in 80 Days seems to us a rare jewel of a show. It's a beautiful show to watch from the opening credits, the music, the costumes and glorious scenery in every episode - but also the terrific acting. Ibrahim Koma and Leonie Benesch are just brilliant (they just ARE Passepartout and Fix) and I now believe David Tennant is even more of a genius than I did already. He takes this repressed, stiff, wimpy and sometimes silly man and manages to make us see another side of the character - I marvel how much I root for Fogg, whilst laughing out loud at his peccadillos. In fact the show so far manages to be both really funny and then sometimes lump-in-the-throat moving. It feels unusually cinematic - there don't feel any corners cut in the production values. It drips with colour and flavour; I felt I was tasting the sandstorm and the dust of the Indian village. The guest characters are superb - Moretti the industrialist played by an Italian actor I was unfamiliar with, and Jane Digby tonight was absolutely marvellously played by Lindsay Duncan. It manages to feel completely of it's time 1872 - and yet so contemporary. So yes, it's a resounding 9 out of 10 from the extended family. I can't give it 10 because that's for Succession, Time and It's a Sin - but if I could give it 9.5 for being something super special in its own and very important right, I would. More television like this please. I haven't sat down to watch television with my 15 and 17 year old for some time. My 24 year old niece turned up on the doorstep to watch it with us tonight too. That feels just great. Thank you 80 Days!