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Emmy Watch: Noah Emmerich Talks TV vs. Movies, 'The Americans'

15 hours ago | Indiewire Television | See recent Indiewire Television news »

Noah Emmerich pops in "The Americans." Best-known for his serious film work, no matter how small the role, Emmerich always stands out, from Todd Field's "Little Children" and Peter Weir's "The Truman Show" to Gavin O'Connor's "Pride and Glory." Perhaps because of that film he keeps getting calls to play Irish cops, even though he's a New York Jew, he told me. (His brother Toby Emmerich runs New Line Cinema.)  When Emmerich, 48, first read the description of his character in the pilot script for the FX Reagan era series "The Americans," he didn't want to play yet another FBI agent, a man with a gun and a badge, he admits. When his friend O'Connor brought it back up to him, he read the pilot again and signed on after a long meeting with show creator Joe Weisberg, who has a CIA background. It was leap of faith »

- Anne Thompson

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Emmy Watch: Noah Emmerich Talks TV vs. Movies, 'The Americans'

15 hours ago | Thompson on Hollywood | See recent Thompson on Hollywood news »

Noah Emmerich pops in "The Americans." Best-known for his serious film work, no matter how small the role, Emmerich always stands out, from Todd Field's "Little Children" and Peter Weir's "The Truman Show" to Gavin O'Connor's "Pride and Glory." Perhaps because of that film he keeps getting calls to play Irish cops, even though he's a New York Jew, he told me. (His brother Toby Emmerich runs New Line Cinema.)  When Emmerich, 48, first read the description of his character in the pilot script for the FX Reagan era series "The Americans," he didn't want to play yet another FBI agent, a man with a gun and a badge, he admits. When his friend O'Connor brought it back up to him, he read the pilot again and signed on after a long meeting with show creator Joe Weisberg, who has a CIA background. It was leap of faith »

- Anne Thompson

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Ex-cia, Military Officers Turn Hollywood

18 June 2013 10:00 AM, PDT | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »

Many series use experts and consultants to make sure their action, whether it’s in a courtroom or outer space, is portrayed accurately — though writers take plenty of creative license.

But on some skeins, including “The Americans,” “Homeland” and “The Newsroom,” a consultant isn’t enough.

Their staffs include writers who’ve actually worked in the fields they now write about.

Joseph Weisberg is a one-time CIA officer who turned to writing fiction. He became the creator, executive producer and writer for FX’s “The Americans.”

His second novel, “An Ordinary Spy,” was optioned for movie development. Then his new agents at CAA asked if he was interested in television. Graham Yost approached him about developing a drama series about CIA agents stationed in Bulgaria; that concept later became “The Americans.”

“Writing a novel is very organic because I have the leisure to rewrite anything two or three times. TV »

- Michael Palumbo

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Drama Arcs Leave Viewers Bent Out of Shape

18 June 2013 9:00 AM, PDT | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »

This isn’t how you’re supposed to end a show.

On the last episode of the now-cancelled TNT cop-drama “Southland,” the character that had become the glue of the gritty program over five seasons, John Cooper, was shot by fellow cops who didn’t realize he was a police officer, too. The last shot shows Cooper, played by Michael Cudlitz, bleeding out as his brothers in blue realize his identity and urge him to hang on until help can arrive. And this was the capper to a season that saw Cooper and his partner kidnapped by meth addicts in another, equally harrowing episode and some bumps and knocks for other characters in the series.

“We had nothing to lose,” says Christopher Chulack, executive producer on the show. “The show is on the bubble anyway, perennially so, and we wanted to be true to the characters, and at least true to the steadfast audience. »

- Brian Steinberg

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Emmy Hopeful: Matthew Rhys - 'The Americans'

17 June 2013 10:06 AM, PDT | Entertainment Tonight | See recent Entertainment Tonight news »

Week in and week out, The Americans mined history to bring to life a nail-biting espionage saga. But underneath all the spy-vs-spy shenanigans lied the beating heart of FX's daring Cold War drama: Elizabeth & Phillip's rocky relationship. Plagued by more than your average marital woes, Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys created TV's most hypnotically complicated coupling. Rhys reveals to ETonline that this spousal sparring was what initially attracted him to the project, but as the season evolved, it also proved to be his biggest acting challenge.

ETonline caught up with Rhys, a front-runner for a Best Actor in a Drama Emmy nomination, to talk about this complex creation, discover how he navigated Phillip's lies while maintaining the character's truth and find out his second season hopes for The Jennings Family!

ETonline: Looking back on season one, how do you feel the promise of the series lived up to what made it to the screen?

Matthew Rhys: I was »

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Producers Praise Cable Nets’ Flexibility, Despite Tight Budgets: Cable Show

12 June 2013 9:38 AM, PDT | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »

That was the overall consensus  from a panel of producers at the cable industry trade show this morning that featured Marc Cherry (who created Desperate Housewives), Mark Johnson (Executive Producer of Breaking Bad), and Joe Weisberg (creator of The Americans). “Some of the most exciting work is being done on cable,” says Cherry who’s about to introduce Devious Maids on Lifetime. Networks are “so hungry for viewers that they’re willing to take risks.” He relishes the opportunity to develop a series without having to generate 23 or more episodes. With the intense plotting of a soap opera “the workload is just overwhelming…You can kind of feel it around episode 14 where the story starts to not make sense.” With Devious Maids “I had every episode plotted out. I couldn’t do that” with Desperate Housewives. Weisberg says he “didn’t think I had it in me” to handle the broadcast networks’ demands. »

- DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor

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Ask Ausiello: Spoilers on Orphan Black, Glee, The Americans, Parenthood, Bunheads and More!

11 June 2013 7:10 PM, PDT | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »

Got a scoop request? An anonymous tip you’re dying to share? Send any/all of the above to askausiello@tvline.com

Question: Thrilled about Tatiana Maslany’s Critics Choice win! Any chance you coaxed some Orphan Black scoop out of her (and don’t tell me you didn’t speak to her — I’m armed with evidence that says you did.) —Missy

Ausiello: Oh, Tat and I had a nice long talk Monday night (yes, we’re at the stage in our relationship where she lets me call her Tat. Deal with it.) Our chat mostly consisted of me »

- Michael Ausiello

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Rewind TV: The Call Centre; The Apprentice; The Americans; Love and Marriage; The Unspeakable Crime: Rape

8 June 2013 4:02 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »

A documentary about a Swansea call centre has thrown up a new star in Nev Wilshire. Unfortunately he bears worrying similarities to David Brent

The Call Centre (BBC3) | iPlayer

The Apprentice (BBC1) | iPlayer

The Americans (ITV) | ITV Player

Love and Marriage (ITV) | ITV Player

The Unspeakable Crime: Rape (BBC1) | iPlayer

Documentary series The Call Centre, focusing on "Swansea's third-largest call centre", could have had a degree of sociological interest (more than a million people work in call centres, and their average age is 26). Instead, it concentrated on boss Nev Wilshire, 53, a self-styled larger-than-life eccentric whose motto was "happy people sell".

Naturally, David Brent hovered over proceedings like an evil genie refusing to go back into its bottle. It's not that I thought Wilshire was a fictional character – I just wished he was for his employees' sakes. If Wilshire wasn't interfering in admin worker Kayleigh's love life, to the point of »

- Barbara Ellen

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The Americans – TV review

2 June 2013 4:00 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »

ITV's new cold war drama The Americans is pumped up, intriguing – and utterly, utterly baffling

It's 1981, a cocktail bar. Everywhere was a cocktail bar in 1981. A man in a suit (of course) is boasting to a lady with a blond bob (ditto), while a saxophone wails (double ditto – this sax actually belongs to Rindy Ross of the 80s rock combo Quarterflash). The suited man whips out his Department of Justice ID (we're in Washington DC, btw). The blonde, impressed, leads him away and fellates him.

Oh, she wasn't really impressed, it turns out. She wasn't blond either, it was a bob wig (or a wig bob?); she certainly didn't want to give DoJ dude a Bj, by the look of disgust on her face, and by the urgency with which she's getting outta there.

The music's changed, to the purposeful percussion of Fleetwood Mac's Tusk. A man is chased »

- Sam Wollaston

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The Americans could fill a Homeland-shaped void in your TV viewing

31 May 2013 4:02 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »

Being a TV writer who'd formerly trained as a CIA operative, Joe Weisberg was the obvious choice to bring this tale of Soviet spies in suburbia to our screens

Joe Weisberg was working on sci-fi show Falling Skies in Los Angeles in October 2010 when he heard that the FBI had arrested a group of Russian intelligence service spies posing as Americans. The next thing he knew his phone was ringing.

"The two heads of DreamWorks television called me," said Weisberg, who is in the rare position of being a TV executive that has also trained as a CIA operative. "They knew I'd been in the CIA and that I'd produced and written a previous TV pilot with them, based on the CIA station in Bulgaria. When those illegals were arrested, they asked me if I'd be interested in basing a show on it. That was the genesis of this story. »

- Emma G Keller

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'The Americans' arrives on ITV - first pictures

24 May 2013 2:29 AM, PDT | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - TV news news »

ITV has released the first images of its acclaimed new Us import The Americans.

The Cold War-era spy drama won critical and popular acclaim when it launched on FX in the Us and it will premiere in the UK next month.

The Americans is based in suburban Washington DC shortly after Ronald Reagan is elected president.

Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell star as Soviet spies Philip and Elizabeth Jennings, who are posing as a happily married couple with two children.

The duo are tested by their affinity for American values and their own complicated relationship as well as new neighbour Stan Beeman (Noah Emmerich), an FBI agent.

Maximiliano Hernandez and Margo Martindale also star in the series.

The show has already been renewed for a second 13-episode season in the Us.

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FX president John Landgraf described the series as a "key part" of its drama lineup. »

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FX’s The Americans Promotes Annet Mahendru And Alison Wright

8 May 2013 8:57 AM, PDT | Boomtron | See recent Boomtron news »

Okay spy fans, we just got an important update on FX’s Cold War drama, The Americans. Season 2 is a go and two guest stars from the freshman season, which just closed its curtain on May first, have been promoted to series regular status for the sophomore season.

Are you still reeling from the first season ender? Spoiler alert: Claudia finally got the man responsible for the assassination of Zhukov. Oh yes she did.

Today’s news is great news for actress Annet Mahendru and Alison Wright. When The Americans returns in 2014, they will, too, and in a big way. Mahendru is Nina, FBI Agent Beeman’s Soviet mole and lover. Beeman is portrayed by Noah Emmerich.

“Annet Mahendru has been a revelation as Nina, bringing the character to life with a rich and subtle depth that keeps you guessing as to what’s really percolating under the surface,” said »

- Sasha Nova

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'The Americans' Season 2 promotes Annet Mahendru and Alison Wright: Nina and Martha will be regulars

7 May 2013 11:34 AM, PDT | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »

Get ready to see a lot more of Russian double agents and love-starved secretaries in "The Americans" Season 2. Annet Mahendru and Alison Wright have both been promoted to series regulars on FX's Cold War-espionage drama.

Mahendru plays Nina, the "legal" Kgb spy turned by Stan Beeman (Noah Emmerich) at the beginning of Season 1. By the end of the season, however, the beautiful Nina had turned the tables again, confessing her sins to the Kgb rezident and becoming a double agent. Her spying -- and her personal relationship with the married Stan -- are likely to be a major feature of "The Americans" in Season 2.

Wright plays Martha, the FBI secretary seduced and then married by "Clark" -- the identity assumed by Kgb agent Philip Jennings (Matthew Rhys) in order to get intelligence out of her. Oblivious to Clark's manipulation and tragically happy in her new relationship, Martha will go into »

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The Americans upgrades Annet Mahendru, Alison Wright to series regulars

7 May 2013 10:18 AM, PDT | Upcoming-Movies.com | See recent Upcoming-Movies.com news »

They'll be upped in the second season of the show starring Kerri Russell, Matthew Rhys and Noah Emmerich. Executive producers Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg said that “Annet Mahendru has been a revelation as Nina, bringing the character to life with a rich and subtle depth that keeps you guessing as to what's really percolating under the surface. And Alison Wright's portrayal of Martha is heartbreakingly real at every turn. We are thrilled to add them to our outstanding company of actors.” »

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FX’s ‘The Americans’ Bumps Trio To Regulars For Season 2

7 May 2013 10:07 AM, PDT | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »

Annet Mahendru plays Russian spy Nina and Alison Wright portrays FBI secretary Martha on FX‘s series The Americans, which has been renewed for Season 2 and is expected to begin production in the fall. Susan Misner, who plays Sandra Beeman, also has been promoted to regular. Mahendru’s TV credits include 2 Broke Girls, Mike & Molly and Big Time Rush, and she’s been in the features Escape from Tomorrow and Love Gloria. This is UK native Wright’s first TV role, while her film credits include The Nanny Diaries. FX’s Cold War spy drama starring Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys was renewed for a second season in February after just four episodes and just wrapped its freshman run. Former CIA agent and Falling Skies scribe Joe Weisberg created the series and exec produces with Joel Fields, Graham Yost and Amblin TV’s Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank for Fox TV Studios and FX Prods. »

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FX's The Americans Promotes Two for Season 2

7 May 2013 9:50 AM, PDT | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »

Clark’s bride will have plenty of opportunity to keep on blushin’ — and maybe start to realize she’s secretly wed to a Russian! — now that The Americans has promoted Alison Wright to a series regular for Season 2.

FX also announced on Tuesday that Annet Mahendru, who plays gorgeous triple-agent Nina, also has been upgraded for the retro spy drama’s sophomore run, which will premiere in January 2014.

Related | The Americans Bosses on Granny’s Future and More Season 2 Plans

“Annet Mahendru has been a revelation as Nina, bringing the character to life with a rich and subtle depth that »

- Matt Webb Mitovich

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‘The Americans’ Cast & Creators Talk Show

2 May 2013 10:20 PM, PDT | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »

The fantastic FX show The Americans just wrapped its first season finale, and some of the cast and executive producers sat down on April 26 for a panel discussion at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. The entire hour is on this video and contains spoilers. Panelists are Joe Weisberg (executive producer/creator), Joel Fields (executive producer), Matthew Rhys (who plays Russian spy Philip Jennings), Noah Emmerich (who plays FBI agent Stan Beeman), Margo Martindale (Claudia) and Annet Mahendru (Nina): »

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Creators Joseph Weisberg and Joel Fields Talk The Americans Season Finale, Crafting the Cliffhanger, Season 2, and More

2 May 2013 7:53 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

The Americans is FX’s period drama about the complex and complicated marriage of two Kgb spies posing as Americans in suburban Washington, D.C., shortly after Ronald Reagan was elected President.  Philip (Matthew Rhys) and Elizabeth (Keri Russell) have a network of spies and informants under their control, while their two children – 13-year-old Paige (Holly Taylor) and 10-year-old Henry (Keidrich Sellati) – know nothing about their parents’ true identity.  Even though Philip’s growing affinity for America’s values and way of life leads to tension with Elizabeth, the two must work together to keep the FBI from discovering who they really are. During this recent interview to look back on Season 1 and ahead to Season 2, executive producers Joseph Weisberg and Joel Fields talked about the origin of the series, finding the perfect lead actors, determining how much of a cliffhanger they wanted to end on, where they’re hoping »

- Christina Radish

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The Spy Who Slapped Me: 'The Americans' Cast Spills Secrets (Video)

2 May 2013 7:50 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »

The cast and executive producers of "The Americans" sat down on April 26 for a panel discussion of the FX drama at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles, and we've got the entire hour on video for you.

If you're a fan of the show, you may want to watch the whole thing. But be aware, developments that occurred late in Season 1 and in the season finale are discussed by panelists Joe Weisberg (executive producer/creator), Joel Fields (executive producer), Matthew Rhys (who plays Russian spy Philip Jennings), Noah Emmerich (who plays FBI agent Stan Beeman), Margo Martindale (Claudia) and Annet Mahendru (Nina). You'll also want to check out our recent interviews with Rhys, Martindale and Emmerich, and a post-finale chat with Fields and Weisberg.

If you don't have time to watch the whole hour, we've provided the approximate time stamps of different topics of discussion, which »

- Maureen Ryan

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'The Americans': Executive producers Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg talk about the season finale and what's coming in Season 2

2 May 2013 12:28 PM, PDT | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »

After the tense finale of "The Americans" Season 1, what could possibly be coming next? We had a chance to talk to two of the show's executive producers, Joel Fields and show creator Joe Weisberg.

What comes next in the world of espionage? Is everything good between Philip and Elizabeth (Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell)? Will Margo Martindale return as Claudia? Is Paige (Holly Taylor) about to figure out her parents' big secret?

What can we expect for the main story in Season 2?

Joel Fields: We know that this is a show about marriage ... relationships and identity. We know that we don't want to tell the same story next season that we told this season. What we want to explore is the next phase, the next iteration of that. We have a lot of ideas and a lot of thoughts.

We don't know where it'll end. If you asked us »

- editorial@zap2it.com

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