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- 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
Apr 12, 2024 · Check out the full release schedule for Franklin below. Aired on April 12, 2024 - Season 1, Episode 1, “Sauce for Prayers”. Aired on April 12, 2024 - Season 1, Episode 2, “Welcome, Mischief ...
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Who was Benjamin Franklin really? Franklin, starring and executive produced by Academy, Emmy, and AFI Lifetime Achievement Award winner Michael Douglas, is n...
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Dec 10, 2020 · Benjamin Franklin is best known as one of the Founding Fathers who never served as president but was a respected inventor, publisher, scientist and diplomat. Search. Women’s History;
Faced with the Great Depression and World War II, Franklin D. Roosevelt, nicknamed “FDR,” guided America through its greatest domestic crisis, with the exception of the Civil War, and its greatest foreign crisis. His presidency—which spanned twelve years—was unparalleled, not only in length but in scope. FDR took office with the country ...
In 1928 Roosevelt became Governor of New York. He was elected President in November 1932, to the first of four terms. By March there were 13,000,000 unemployed, and almost every bank was closed ...
Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 1920 – 16 April 1958) [1] was a British chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), RNA (ribonucleic acid), viruses, coal, and graphite. [2] Although her works on coal and viruses were appreciated in her lifetime ...
