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The Americans creative duo Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields are back with their next project for FX. The network has given a 10-episode order to The Patient, a half-hour limited series from Fields, Weisberg and FX Productions, with Steve Carell set to star and executive produce. Co-written by Fields and Weisberg, The Patie…

Don’t expect Paige Jennings to pick up the flag for Mother Russia any time soon and continue her parents undercover Soviet work in 1980s America. This despite the fact that the industry still hasn’t quit its love affair with FX/Amblin TV’s The Americans.  After landing four Primetime Emmy noms and two wins back in…

In its final season at the Primetime Emmys, FX’s The Americans took home big wins for Matthew Rhys (drama lead actor) and EPs Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields (drama writing). And as far as the latter two are concerned, “we’re pretty freaking excited.” “I’ve been saying (all along), I deserve this award,” beamed…

UPDATED with backstage video: The Americans writers Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg went through a long list of thank-you’s after taking the stage to accept their Emmy on Monday for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series, including their “diehard, slightly treasonous” fans. It was one of four Emmy Awards nominations and…

Everybody loves a swan song. Tonight, The Americans creator Joe Weisberg and executive producer Joel Fields took home the Emmy for Outstanding Drama Writing, their only win in six seasons with the acclaimed FX series, which afforded guest actress Margo Martindale two statuettes of her own, in 2015 and 2016, and took…

It was only appropriate that the ATX Television Festival end with The Americans as the FX show recently had its series finale. The packed house at the Paramount Theatre was filled with emotion as they aired of the final scenes appropriately set to the tune of U2’s “With or Without You” from the last episode before…

Spoiler Alert: The following postmortem contains details about tonight’s series finale of The Americans on FX Imagine you’re FBI agent Stan Beeman (Noah Emmerich), and you just learned that the next door neighbors who’ve been your best friends for the last few years are literally Soviet spies, the types you’ve been…

Following the recently wrapped season 5 of FX’s spy drama The Americans, Creators/Eps Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields hit up Austin’s ATX Television Festival and offered a bit of insight into what’s to come in the sixth and final season. Though no specific plot details were revealed, Weisberg teased that it will be…

“Remember when Russian infiltration was a cute thing you were able to confine to the ’80s?” a TV critic asked The Americans creator Joe Weisberg today at TCA, wondering if it’s “harder now that you’re making a contemporary show.” “There is something, in a twisted way, kind of fun in seeing all the headlines about…

Slight spoiler alert about Season 5 of FX’s The Americans. The TCA press corps needled The Americans EPs Joseph Weisberg and Joel Fields about what the series’ final two seasons might be like. Here’s what they divulged about the Cold War drama starring Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell as Americanized Soviet spies Philip…

Warning: This post contains spoilers about tonight’s The Americans season four finale “Persona Non Grata” This season of FX’s The Americans arguably saw more characters meeting their maker – or at least sent to oblivion, in the case of FBI secretary Martha – than in any single season of HBO’s The Sopranos. Martha…

FX’s praised Cold War spy drama The Americans is getting an end date. The network has given the series, now airing its fourth season, a pickup for two more seasons, a 13-episode Season 5 to air in 2017 and 10-episode sixth and final season to air in 2018. Additionally, FX Productions, which co-produces The Americans…