Tyson: You guys never give up The Americans spoilers. What gives?
We’re not ones to just “give it up” on the first question. But since we happened to have stumbled across some juicy info, we’ll spill. The Americans is looking to cast a new recurring character in season two, and this guy sounds an awful lot like a new love interest for Elizabeth. Charming, smart, politically savvy…he’s right in her wheelhouse.
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Emmy ballots are due Friday! Voters have mere hours to check off the names and shows they think are worthy of getting a nomination come July 18. We here at TVGuide.com have a few picks in mind ourselves. And so, here’s our final dream ballot for Best Drama Series:
The Americans
Draw the similarities to Homeland if you want, but The Americans is in a class of its own. Making unlikely protagonists out of KGB antagonists, the morally gray espionage drama has been absorbing and eminently relatable in painting the complexities of a marriage. Plus: How about those ’80s fashions?!
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13. The Americans (FX)
Stars: Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys, Noah Emmerich, Annet Mahendru, Margo Martindale, Richard Thomas, Maximiliano Hernandez, Holly Taylor, Keidrich Sellati, Susan Misner, Alison Wright, Derek Luke
Of all the news shows that have premiered in 2013 so far, The Americans is the only one that can legitimately be compared to HBO’s forever almighty The Sopranos.
Which isn’t to say that FX’s spy drama series is as good as David Chase’s groundbreaking mob saga—we’re talking about the story. Like Tony Soprano, The Americans’ two protagonists, Elizabeth (Keri Russell) and Philip Jennings (Matthew Rhys) constantly walk the fine line between being heroes and villains, often leaping back and forth from side to side in any given episode. It’s a daring conceit that, fortunately, series creator Joe Weisberg and his team have been more than able to handle.
The Jennings husband/wife team, along with their two children, are just trying to live normal suburban lives, but with one catch: They’re also undercover KGB agents. Though they’re America’s enemies, Russell and Rhys’ characters are difficult to root against, thanks to the actors’ strong performances and the show’s taut, smart, and challenging scripts.
The Americans isn’t a two-person show, though. Russell and Rhys are surrounded by a stellar crop of co-stars, namely the underrated character actor Noah Emmerich (playing their FBI Agent next door neighbor) and Emmy-winner Margo Martindale (Justified). It’s an across-the-board winner. —MB
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Keri Russell and Noah Emmerich, who play Russian spy Elizabeth Jennings and Agent Stan Beeman in The Americans, discuss the differences in self-perception of Americans in the early ‘eighties.
Question: Any scoop on The Americans? I know it’s early, so I will literally take anything you have. —Jessica
Ausiello: Elizabeth and Phillip will face a major homegrown threat in Season 2 — as in literally inside their home. “There’s going to be a lot of Paige in Season 2,” teases exec producer Joe Weisberg of the couple’s teen daughter, who was last seen closing in on her parents’ secret. “That [moment] was not just a one-off. It’s not just ‘Paige got suspicious and looked in the basement.’ There’s going to be a lot of Paige thinking about her parents, and parents thinking about Paige.” And in case there was any question, Elizabeth and Phillip will once again be living under the same roof when the show returns. “He’s moving back in,” Weisberg confirms. “Elizabeth said in the finale, ‘Come home.’ And he’s been waiting for her.”
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The Television Critics Association (TCA), a media organization with more than 200 professional TV critics and journalists from the United States and Canada, today announced nominations for its 2013 TCA Awards. The 2013 TCA Awards recognize outstanding television programming in the 2012-2013 season, honoring actors, producers and programs in a variety of categories including news and information, youth, reality, drama and comedy achievements.
The winners of the 29th Annual TCA Awards will be announced at the invitation-only presentation on Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, as part of the group’s bi-annual industry conference.
Keri is not nominated but The Americans is.
Individual Achievement in Drama
Bryan Cranston, “Breaking Bad” (AMC)
Vera Farmiga, “Bates Motel” (A&E)
Tatiana Maslany, “Orphan Black” (BBC America)
Monica Potter, “Parenthood” (NBC)
Matthew Rhys, “The Americans” (FX)
Outstanding New Program
“The Americans,” FX
“Elementary,” CBS
“House of Cards,” Netflix
“The Mindy Project,” Fox
“Orphan Black,” BBC America
Outstanding Achievement in Drama
“The Americans,” FX
“Breaking Bad,” AMC
“Game of Thrones,” HBO
“Homeland,” Showtime
“Mad Men,” AMC
Program of the Year
“The Americans,” FX
“Breaking Bad,” AMC
“Game of Thrones,” HBO
“House of Cards,” Netflix
“The Walking Dead,” AMC
Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys, who play Russian spies Elizabeth and Philip Jennings in The Americans, discuss the complex marriage of their characters.
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.”
The show is The Americans, a nail-biting depiction of 1981 cold-war Washington that’s the most talked-about drama on US television this year. The story centres on a seemingly upstanding couple (Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys) who live in the suburbs of Washington DC, with their two beautiful children. The only complication? These Americans are actually Soviets. Continue reading The Americans could fill a Homeland-shaped void in your TV viewing
Sorry, “Homeland”! With the addition of “House of Cards,” “The Americans,” “Bates Motel” and many others, this may be the most competitive awards year ever.
Emmy voters don’t have it easy. This year, the pool of contenders comprise the most variety ever — upward of 100 series across as many categories — among cable and broadcast. Sure, the stalwarts are still in the game — AMC’s Breaking Bad, HBO’s Game of Thrones, Showtime’s Homeland, ABC’s Modern Family, CBS’ The Big Bang Theory, to name a few — but will they yield to these 10 newcomers? And can they break through the glut of competition?
The Americans (FX)
➺ With Justified past its Emmy-novelty prime and Sons of Anarchy snubbed since, well, its 2008 debut, FX is hanging all its Emmy drama hopes on former CIA agent Joe Weisberg’s 1980s-set Russian spy thriller. The series had one of the most impressive debuts of the year as well as consistent grit from its excellent cast that includes Matthew Rhys, Keri Russell and 2011 Emmy winner Margo Martindale.
Congratulations to Keri who has been nominated to 2013 Critics’ Choice Awards for her role Elizabeth in The Americans. Matthew Rhys and Noah Emmerich also got nomiantions.
BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
• Claire Danes (Homeland) – Showtime
• Vera Farmiga (Bates Motel) – A&E
• Julianna Margulies (The Good Wife) – CBS
• Tatiana Maslany (Orphan Black) – BBC America
• Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men) – AMC
• Keri Russell (The Americans) – FXBEST DRAMA SERIES
• The Americans – FX
• Breaking Bad – AMC
• Downton Abbey – PBS
• Game of Thrones – HBO
• The Good Wife – CBS
• Homeland – Showtime
The third annual Critics’ Choice Television Awards ceremony will be held on Monday evening June 10 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
