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Episode Guide
- 1. Sauce for Prayers Apr 12, 2024
- Benjamin Franklin and his grandson plunge into a world of intrigue and deception.
- 2. Welcome, Mischief Apr 12, 2024
- An arms operation is threatened by a ruthless opponent; the Paris police watch Franklin.
- 3. Pride and Gout Apr 12, 2024
- Bad news arrives from America; Franklin finds himself ensnared in the traps of Versailles.
Why to watch
- Michael Douglas has a fresh take on Benjamin Franklin
- When: The first three episodes of Franklin stream April 12 on Apple TV+.
- What to know: Michael Douglas stars in and executive produces the new limited series about “the greatest gamble of Benjamin Franklin’s career,” according to a press release for the show.
- Viewers meet Franklin, 70, in December 1776 as he travels to France and convinces “an absolute monarchy to underwrite America’s experiment in democracy.”
- Douglas “embodies a lot of Franklin’s spirit in that he is really smart, and charming, and completely contemporary in that he’s aware of everything that’s going on around him, on a global level and on a personal level,” Franklin director Tim Van Patten told Variety. “And he’s curious. And he has an absolute lust for life.”
- The series is based on Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stacy Schiff’s book A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America.
- — Garin Flowers, entertainment reporter
- April 10, 2024
Franklin is a biographical drama miniseries about the United States Founding Father Benjamin Franklin, based on Stacy Schiff's 2005 book A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America. It was released on Apple TV+ on April 12, 2024.
Franklin: With Michael Douglas, Noah Jupe, Daniel Mays, Ludivine Sagnier. Explores the story of one of the greatest gambles of Franklin's career. At age 70, Franklin outmaneuvered British spies and French informers while engineering the Franco-American alliance of 1778.
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- 2024-04-12
- Biography, Drama, History
- Michael Douglas, Noah Jupe, Daniel Mays
Apr 12, 2024 · Michael Douglas in "Franklin," premiering April 12, 2024 on Apple TV+. Apple TV+’s new miniseries, Franklin, is now streaming. If you want to tune into the period drama centered around...
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Benjamin Franklin FRS FRSA FRSE (January 17, 1706 [ O.S. January 6, 1705] [Note 1] – April 17, 1790) was an American polymath: a leading writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher, and political philosopher. [1] Among the most influential intellectuals of his time, Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the ...
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Nov 9, 2009 · One of the leading figures of early American history, Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) was a statesman, author, publisher, scientist, inventor and diplomat. Born into a Boston family of modest...
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