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“When you're walking backwards, and you roll your shoulder backwards, it's not a seduction—it's a con." It's one of the first impressions we get of Michelle Williams' Gwen Verdon as she dispenses advice to a group of tired dancers performing "Big Spender" during her husband Bob Fosse's 1969 film Sweet Charity. It's a…

If there’s ever a story in this zeitgeist of Time’s Up, it’s the tale of Broadway and film star Gwen Verdon, and her power behind legendary choreographer and film/stage director Bob Fosse — and the credit she rarely received. As portrayed in FX’s limited series Fosse/Verdon, The Damn Yankees actress (played by…

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…

Emmy-winning writer-producer Joel Fields (The Americans) has joined the writing team and will serve as an executive producer on FX’s untitled Fosse/Verdon eight-episode limited series starring Oscar winner Sam Rockwell and Oscar nominee Michelle Williams. Fields joins Tony award-winning producers Thomas Kail, Steven…

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…

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…

In its fourth season, FX’s 1980s Soviet spy period drama The Americans has finally broken through with Television Academy members and earned some top-notch Emmy nominations including drama series, lead actress for Keri Russell and lead actor for Matthew Rhys. Since its first season, The Americans, which follows Soviet…