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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
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