Douglas plays Benjamin Franklin, the brilliant scientist ... The Television Academy also loved and appreciated John Adams, awarding the limited series a record-breaking 13 Emmys.

He will portray John Adams, who after serving as George ... allowing him to embark on his voyage to France. The Benjamin ...

The task reunited him with Benjamin Franklin. Like Adams, John Jay, the third delegate, refused to negotiate until England recognized American independence. For once Franklin went against France's ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy an elevated position in the American imagination. He was, after all, the man who risked life and limb to ...

So let’s take a gander at the first promotional image of Michael Douglas as Benjamin Franklin ... John Adams’ Kirk Ellis is writing and that Sopranos’ Tim Van Patten is directing, with the ...