Franklin and Bash
| Franklin & Bash | |
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| Genre |
Comedy-drama Legal procedural |
| Created by |
Kevin Falls Bill Chais |
| Starring |
Breckin Meyer Mark-Paul Gosselaar Dana Davis Kumail Nanjiani Malcolm McDowell Reed Diamond Garcelle Beauvais Heather Locklear Toni Trucks Anthony Ordonez |
| Opening theme | "Mixture" performed by Pete |
| Composer(s) | John Robert Wood, Tree Adams |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 40 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Jamie Tarses Kevin Falls Bill Chais Jason Ensler |
| Producer(s) | Dana Calvo |
| Location(s) |
Los Angeles, California Atlanta, Georgia (pilot only) |
| Cinematography | Dennis S. Hall |
| Editor(s) | Joe Hobeck |
| Camera setup | Single-camera |
| Running time | 42 minutes |
| Production company(s) | FanFare Productions Four Sycamore Productions Left Coast Productions Sony Pictures Television |
| Distributor | Sony Pictures Television |
| Release | |
| Original network | TNT |
| Original release | June 1, 2011 – October 22, 2014 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Franklin & Bash is an American comedy-drama television series created by Kevin Falls and Bill Chais. The series starred Breckin Meyer and Mark-Paul Gosselaar as unconventional lawyers and longtime friends. A Turner Broadcasting executive referred to the series as a "funny legal procedural", whereas in the United Kingdom it was referred to as "Ally McBeal With Balls" when advertised for its forthcoming debut on E4.
The series was broadcast in the United States on the cable channel TNT. It premiered on June 1, 2011. The second season aired June 5, 2012, and the third on June 19, 2013. The show was renewed for a fourth season on October 17, 2013, which premiered August 13, 2014. The series was canceled on November 11, 2014.
The characters Franklin and Bash, for whom the show is named, are an unlikely duo of streetwise attorneys. After defeating Damien Karp of the prestigious law firm Infeld & Daniels, LLC (colloquially "Infeld Daniels"), they are recruited by co-founder and managing partner Stanton Infeld to breathe new life into the ailing firm with the duo reminding Stanton of his early days with his partner the late Daniels. Assisting Franklin and Bash is Carmen Phillips, an ex-convict out on parole who assists with background investigations on cases, and Pindar Singh, a brilliant, agoraphobic attorney and classmate of theirs.
In agreeing to work for Infeld Daniels, Franklin and Bash were guaranteed that they would still be taking on the same kind of cases as before, only with the backing of a major law firm. Over the course of their cases Franklin and Bash, through their courtroom antics, prove to be effective advocates for their clients, much to the chagrin of Damien Karp and his ex-girlfriend fellow attorney Hanna Linden.
Unbeknownst to the titular duo, Karp and Linden have been clandestinely stockpiling files on the team in the hopes that enough infractions will motivate Infeld to fire them. However, after assisting Franklin & Bash in military court, Linden deleted the entire file, however due to digital copies never been deleted off servers, failed to hide the file from the NY firm partners.
The duo later learn their hiring was a move by Infeld to protect the firm from a leveraged buyout by any firm, particularly Franklin's father's firm, Franklin and Franklin. Although the pair feel understandably manipulated, the team still work to save Infeld Daniels from the attempted takeover. Infeld arrives at their house offering his regrets about the lie.
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