 Like Fogg and Palin, the journey begins and ends at the Reform Club in London.It was first shown on BBC One and BBC HD in October and November 2009.The challenge for the celebrities was to travel around the globe in eighty days, starting and ending at the Reform Club in London, re-enacting the challenge made to Phileas Fogg in the 1873 Jules Verne novel, "Around the World in Eighty Days", and "Around the World in 80 Days with Michael Palin".