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Netflix Announces New Kennedy Family Series Starring Michael Fassbender

The eight-episode series stars Michael Fassbender as Joseph Kennedy Sr. and chronicles the family’s rise from the 1930s, based on Fredrik Logevall’s acclaimed biography.

  • Netflix has greenlit Kennedy, ordering an eight-episode first season centered on the Kennedy family, with Michael Fassbender set to play Joseph Kennedy Sr.
  • Sam Shaw will serve as showrunner and executive producer, adapting Fredrik Logevall's JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956, with Thomas Vinterberg directing; news arrived almost two years after Variety first reported development.
  • Beginning in the 1930s, the first season charts Joe and Rose Kennedy and their nine children, revealing intimate lives, loves, rivalries and tragedies that shaped the dynasty.
  • Variety reported Netflix sees the show as an American version of The Crown and Kennedy is intended as an ongoing series.
  • Michael Fassbender, best known for his film work, takes his second leading TV role in recent years while starring in The Agency and appearing in Hope next year.
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Netflix plans the next series hammer! The streaming giant takes America's most legendary glamour and scandal dynasty – the Kennedys! At the heart of the Prestige series: power, love, betrayal and a family name that wrote history. A look behind the shiny facade of a family that had everything – and lost everything. The award-winning actor Michael Fassbender (48) slips into the role of the ice-cold family patriarch Joseph P. Kennedy (1888 – 1969),…

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The first season will be set in the 1930s and will follow the rise of Joseph and Rose Kennedy and their nine children.

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Michael Fassbender will play the family's patriarch.

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Netflix announces new Kennedy family series starring Michael Fassbender

One of America’s most famous families is getting the Netflix treatment.

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