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Shooting wraps next month in New Zealand on Mysterious Island, a new 22 one-hour TV series produced by Atlantis Films and Tasman Film & Television of New Zealand. Inspired by Jules Verne’s classic novel, the official Canada/New Zealand coproduction has been sold to Channel Nine in Australia, and broadcasters in Germany, Finland, Russia, Singapore, Indonesia, Taiwan and Malaysia. It airs here on Family Channel (first window) and the CanWest Global System. Above, C. David Johnson stars as ‘Jack Pencroft’ aboard the ‘Lady Joanna.’ Photo: Jae Frew/Atlantis/Tasman