When we heard that Michael Douglas was going to play Benjamin Franklin in a new Apple TV+ series, we had our doubts. But after watching the first episode of the series, which depicts the 70-year-old ...

Move over, Ken Burns: Another Benjamin Franklin series is coming to television, with a major star attached to play the patron saint of Philadelphia. The first three episodes of "Franklin," the latest ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LOS ANGELES – Even Michael Douglas had doubts about portraying Benjamin Franklin in the Oscar-winning actor's first period drama.

Michael Douglas' remarkable career dates back over half a century, with his Academy Awards win for Best Actor for Wall Street making just a small slice of his celebratory cake. Now at 80 years of age, ...

Apple TV+, which made an early foray into the science fiction realm, is now tackling historical miniseries with great success. Just days before they release Manhunt, their Lincoln assignation piece ...

When pondering the Revolutionary War, specific inflection points come to mind. The Boston Massacre of 1770, Paul Revere’s midnight warning in 1775 and the signing of the Declaration of Independence in ...

Michael Douglas is finding some common ground with a Founding Father. In a March interview with CBS News, Douglas compared what his interviewer referred to as his "third act" in life, to that of ...

LOS ANGELES – Even Michael Douglas had doubts about portraying Benjamin Franklin in the Oscar-winning actor's first period drama. Douglas, 79, who famously proclaimed "Greed is Good" in his iconic ...