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"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, and the series finale aired on May 17, 2024. The series depicts the eight years that Benjamin Franklin spent in France to convince King Louis XVI to support the burgeoning United States in the American Revolutionary War. The limited series stars Michael Douglas as Benjamin Franklin, with an ensemble cast that includes Noah Jupe, Daniel Mays, Ludivine Sagnier, Thibault de Montalembert, Assaad Bouab, Théodore Pellerin, Tom Hughes, Jeanne Balibar, and Eddie Marsan as John Adams. On October 26, 1776, Franklin was dispatched to France as commissioner for the United States. He took with him as secretary his 16-year-old grandson, William Temple Franklin. They lived in a home in the Parisian suburb of Passy, donated by Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont, who supported the United States. Franklin remained in France until 1785. He conducted the affairs of his country toward the French nation with great success, which included securing a critical military alliance in 1778 and signing the 1783 Treaty of Paris. "Franklin" is the "Featured Television Blog" of the month for July, You can expect a detailed critique of the limited series with historical context of Franklin's background. There is also a detailed recommendation of the series with the detailed synopsis of the eight episodes and the real life historical characters portrayed in the series. There is also a detailed review of the 2005 book the limited series is based off of from Stacy Schiff. For the interview, actor Michael Douglas sits down with CBS Sunday Morning to discuss the Apple TV series, playing Benjamin Franklin, and America today versus its revolutionary period. There is also a Top Ten List, and for "Franklin", the list is "My Top Ten Michael Douglas Movies"! Last but not least, the "Featured Television Blog" of the month includes an Official Trailer for the featured series! #moviestohistory #featuredtelevisonblog #franklin #MichaelDouglas #noahjupe #AppleTVPlus #OfficialTrailer #BenjaminFranklin #July #americanrevolution #foundingfathers #france #paris #TreatyofParis #featuredblogofthemonth #television https://lnkd.in/eRfkjJ3H

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Those barbaric and brutal eighties | Television Paloma Rando already celebrated in this same place how good she was Eric (Netflix), and I agree with your recommendation. I have enjoyed this disturbing and daring series in which Benedict Cumberbatch shines in a borderline role, and an impeccable Gaby Hoffmann, who transmits infinite exhaustion in half a gesture. The work has many juicy aspects to sink one’s analytical teeth into, but I want to stay with a tangential impression. More than an impression, an uncomfortable itch. More information Eric It takes place in 1985 in a New York in tatters, and the protagonist is a puppeteer inspired by Jim Henson, creator of a program emulating Sesame Street. We can anticipate the premise from the credits: this world of fantasy and candor hides a sewer that swallows up children. It is enough to scratch a little to reveal addiction, perversion and pure evil. This premise is so assimilated by the audience of 2024 that the series does not even present it with intrigue. The plot does not disabuse the viewer, it does not say: sit back and wait, you will not believe the filth under the dolls. The viewer already knows, he is just curious to know what kind of filth it is: sexual filth? Sexist filth? Homophobic filth? Without spoiling anything, in Eric there is a tutifruti of all those filths, to use an expression from the eighties. A moment from ‘Sesame Street’, with the characters Don Pimpón (left) and Espinete. RTVE Not long ago, the Yo fui a EGB phenomenon capitalized on the nostalgia of the generation X (adults, with their mortgage paid off and eager to spend a lot of money on Olé, olé and Tino Casal junk, and thus relive their youth, albeit with original luxury editions, instead of re-recorded TDK cassette tapes), but the pendulum is now in the other direction, thanks, among others, to Bill Cosby. Boasting about having gone to EGB instills suspicion in young people. To EGB, you say? Did you go to EGB? bullyingyou bought heroin at the candy stand, you beat up homosexuals and you raped your friends? I would say that the truth is closer to this apocalyptic vision than to the previous nostalgia: we children of the eighties already joked about the flour that covered Chema’s apron in Sesame Streetassuming it was another substance that made him very talkative and enthusiastic. Both images are false. That the dark version prevails today speaks more of today’s fears than of yesterday’s traumas. Eric It is also an unconscious reproach: look how barbaric you were, people of the eighties. You can follow EL PAÍS Television on X or sign up here to receive our weekly newsletter. The post Those barbaric and brutal eighties | Television appeared first on The USA Print.

How to get nominated for an Oscar in your very first acting gig (In only 10 steps): Step 1: Have a dream to be an actress Step 2: Face resistance from your father and the limited opportunities of your home state. Step 3: Do a radio gig and pursue an education career instead. Step 4: Accept a surprise offer to work in local TV news. Step 5: Take a better TV news gig in a bigger market. Step 6: Get demoted because you “aren’t fit for the news” after all. Step 7: Utilize your unique abilities of empathy and storytelling to make the most of your demotion. Step 8: Accept an offer in a bigger market to showcase your unique abilities further in a talk show format. Step 9: Become so good at being uniquely “you” that you take this show from last to first place in ratings. Step 10: Take a call from one of the fans of your show, who happens to be Steven Spielberg, and accept the role he offers you in the film, The Color Purple. --- Of the 160,000 actors in SAG-AFTRA, the ones who get personal calls from directors like Steven Spielberg make up less than 0.01%. Yet Oprah Winfrey achieved the impossible in only 10 steps. --- We fail to reach our goals NOT because of delays or obstacles... ...But because we unconsciously attach ourselves to the route we think we must take to succeed. But here’s the truth: you have no idea how to reach your goals. You only ASSUME you do based on your own logic and what you’ve seen others experience. “Delay” or “obstacles” only exist in this assumed path of success. But what you think is a delay might actually be accelerating you past the 160,000 others fighting for an opportunity along the traditional route. Delays cannot slow you down without your permission. --- If you're struggling with an undercurrent of anxiety because you think you need to be doing more and going faster, I made this workshop to show you a better way to deal with delays: blakestratton.com/timeeq

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If you haven’t seen this particular episode of Casualty about end of life in Switzerland, then I highly recommend you watch it. Not only is the acting, production and Directing superb and perfectly paced, but it’s informative. Brilliant episode. #casualty #bbc

https://lnkd.in/dqqz36wu Extracts Eddie Murphy has been so famous for so long, occupying such a lofty place in the cultural landscape, that it can be easy to overlook just how game-changing a figure he actually is. Let’s start, as Murphy’s career did, with standup. There had been star comics before — Steve Martin, Richard Pryor — but none exploded with anything like Murphy’s speed or intensity. Swaggering, magnetic and able to bounce between sweet personal storytelling and controversial, defiantly un-P.C. material, he was, and forgive me for mixing disciplines, a rock star. “Eddie Murphy: Raw,” released in 1987 when he was only 26, is the highest-grossing standup-comedy film ever — still. The scale of his success, and the fact he achieved it without dulling his edge, redefined what a comedian could do, paving the way for the likes of Kevin Hart and Chris Rock. He also, of course, cast his spell on TV. When Murphy arrived at “Saturday Night Live” in 1980, the show was thought to be on the verge of cancellation. Through sheer force of charisma as well as instantly iconic, hilariously unpredictable recurring characters like his crotchety Gumby and the Mr. Rogers parody Mr. Robinson, Murphy brought the show back to life. A highly plausible argument can be made that without him, television’s most reliable comedy-star-making machine might not have made it to a 10th anniversary, let alone be nearing its 50th. But Murphy made his greatest mark in movies, where he reached new heights, for comedians and Black performers, of popularity and bankability. He helped pioneer the action-comedy genre with his quippy, improvisational-feeling performances in movies like “Beverly Hills Cop” and “48 Hrs.” And then in the mid-1990s, after a bit of a career dip, he transitioned to family-friendly films like “Shrek” and “The Nutty Professor” (one of multiple comedies in which Murphy virtuosically played wildly different characters), and continued to score giant hits. All of which is to say that American pop culture looked different after Eddie Murphy came along. Now he’s returning to the character that sent his career into the stratosphere with “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F,” which comes to Netflix on July 3. It arrives 40 years after the first film in the series, in which Murphy stars as the wisecracking detective Axel Foley. He is clearly comfortable with the role — and with himself. Do you understand what you mean to comedians like Kevin Hart and Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock and Chris Tucker? Well, I didn’t lay down a path. They took their own path. The comic used to be the sidekick, the comic was the opening act, and I changed it to where the comic can be the main attraction. They thought of comics one way, and it was like, no, a comic could sell out the arena, and a comic could be in hundred-million-dollar movies. All of that changed.

What is something we hate in real life but can’t do without in stories? Drama. Well, we say we hate drama. But what we really mean is we hate conflict directly coming at us. In storytelling, drama is the lifeblood. Without it, there is no emotion and no entertainment. Drama doesn’t exist when there is no conflict. Another thing storytellers can’t do without. When I wrote TV shows, my initial instinct was to create conflict but then to solve it nicely. But when we did that, our ratings struggled. Soon we learned that we couldn't write a successful show using healthy characters. We needed narcissists and stupidity in our stories. Heaps of weaknesses, misunderstandings, lies, and unreasonable behaviors. Stories mirror real life but amplify the drama. Sometimes, real-life drama gives us a peculiar satisfaction. The revenge, the curiosity, the adrenaline… When you feel that “juice,” you’re stepping into the realm of tales. Which can be fun but also unhealthy. In storytelling, drama isn’t the enemy; it’s the heartbeat. And it might help understand real-life conflicts and navigate them better. I always say stories are like vaccinations. They prepare us for the adversity in real life. Netflix isn’t always a waste of time!

https://lnkd.in/dcNxsXVJ What is it like being on stage and performing in front of live audiences? How is it working with famous celebrities like Sir Ian McKellen and working on British TV? I speak to Mairi Barclay, Scottish actress of stage and TV for some answers. My latest episode of The English Breakfast