The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne is a Canadian science fiction television series that aired on CBC in Canada from June to December 2000, lasting for one season.
The show is a fictionalized telling of the life of French author Jules Verne, placing him into the settings of the stories he wrote such as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas and Around the World in Eighty Days.
[2] The pitch package for the show was developed by a USA based team that included a small VFX company called digital phenomena.
[1] The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne was the first television series to be recorded entirely in high-definition video;[3] specifically, it used the HDCAM, a digital camera manufactured by Sony.
"[6] Tom Shales of The Washington Post was less favorable, describing the show's premise as "silly" while also criticizing the directing, script, and characterization of Verne.