Michael Douglas
Benjamin Franklin
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- 8. S1 E8 New episode May 17, 2024
- Benjamin Franklin embarks on a secret mission to France, with American independence in the balance.
- 7. S1 E7 New episode May 10, 2024
- Benjamin Franklin embarks on a secret mission to France, with American independence in the balance.
- 6. Beauty and Folly May 3, 2024
- Franklin suspects traitors are everywhere; Vergennes makes a final offer.
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. (miniseries) 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. [1] The series depicts the eight years Benjamin Franklin spent in ...
- Kirk Ellis
- Tim Van Patten
- A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America, by Stacy Schiff
- Biographical drama
Franklin: With Michael Douglas, Noah Jupe, Olivier Claverie, Marc Duret. 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.
- Biography, Drama, History
- 2 min
- Noah Jupe, Marc Duret, Eddie Marsan
- 6
Apr 26, 2024 · Michael Douglas and Noah Jupe in Franklin (Image credit: Apple TV). Portraying Benjamin Franklin is Hollywood legend Michael Douglas. Douglas is an Oscar-winning actor for his role as Gordon Gekko in Wall Street, as well as an Emmy winner for playing Liberace in the TV limited series Behind the Candelabra.
Franklin. (TV series) Franklin is a Canadian animated preschool educational children's television series, based on the Franklin the Turtle books by Brenda Clark and Paulette Bourgeois, and produced by Nelvana. [1] [2] It was followed up by a CGI adaptation, Franklin and Friends . The animated series has also produced several television films ...
- 6
- 78 (156 segments) (list of episodes)
- November 3, 1997 –, August 8, 2004
- Bruce Cockburn
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Franklin is a TV show based on the books by Paulette Bourgeois, featuring a turtle and his animal friends. The series teaches social and moral lessons to young viewers through various adventures and situations.
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Franklin. View the latest episode descriptions, premiere dates and download unit photography for Apple Original "Franklin" on Apple TV+.
Franklin is an American children's animated television series, based on the Franklin the Turtle books by Brenda Clark and Paulette Bourgeois, and produced by Nelvana. The series's target audience is children between the ages of 2 and 8. The animated series had been aired on CBC Television and the Family Channel in Canada and CBS and Nick Jr. in the United States. Reruns have been aired on ...
