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'Jules Verne': Way Out Of His League

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20010105
Author:Tom Shales

"The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne" should have remained secret. A cuckoo concoction from Canada premiering tonight on cable's popular Sci-Fi Channel, the series appears to owe as much to Lewis Carroll as to Verne -- at least to the extent that it tends toward jabberwocky and gibberish.

Network publicity calls the pseudo-Victorian sci-fi series its "newest addition to the 'steam punk' genre." Good heavens, what genre is that? The premise of the show is that in his youth Verne really lived his futuristic escapades rather than just imagined them, abetted by Phileas Fogg (Michael Praed), the ...

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