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tammyy2j
28-01-2013, 21:25
ITV has picked up the rights to new US drama The Americans.
The Cold War spy thriller - which will debut on FX in the US on January 30 - stars Brothers and Sisters actor Matthew Rhys and Felicity's Keri Russell as two KGB spies.
Posing as a married couple, Phillip (Rhys) and Elizabeth Jennings (Russell) must maintain their cover in Washington DC, while also dealing with the emotional complexities of their sham marriage, which grows more real and passionate each day.
Noah Emmerich (The Walking Dead) will also star as Stan, the couple's new neighbour who is in fact an undercover FBI operative.
ITV has made a two-year commitment to The Americans - which has been created by Joe Weisberg (Falling Skies, Damages) and will premiere in the UK in the coming months.
Angela Jain - Director of Digital Channels and Acquisitions at ITV - said: "We are delighted that a series of such high quality with really fantastic lead performances from Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys will be on ITV later this year.
"This drama about KGB spies posing as a suburban American couple is tense, taut and exciting to watch - we hope viewers will enjoy the ride."
The Americans is a period drama about the complex marriage of two KGB spies posing as Americans in suburban Washington D.C. shortly after Ronald Regan is elected President.
The series is centered on Philip (Matthew Rhys) and Elizabeth (Keri Russell) Jennings, who have two children – 13-year-old Paige (Holly Taylor) and 10-year-old Henry (Keidrich Sellati), who know nothing about their parents’ true identity.
The arranged marriage of Philip and Elizabeth grows more passionate and genuine by the day, but is constantly tested by the escalation of the Cold War and the intimate, dangerous and darkly funny relationships they must maintain with a network of spies and informants under their control. Philip’s growing sense of affinity for America’s values and ways of life further complicate the couple’s relationship.
Tensions also heighten upon the arrival of a new neighbor, Stan Beeman (Noah Emmerich), an FBI agent. Stan and his partner, Agent Chris Amador (Maximiliano Hernandez) are members of a new division of Counterintelligence tasked with fighting against foreign agents on U.S. soil, including KGB Directorate S illegals, Russian spies posing as Americans.
The Americans, from executive producer/showrunner Joe Weisberg (“Falling Skies”), alongside executive producer Graham Yost (“Justified”), is set in the final years of the Cold War and was inspired by the FBI’s arrests of multiple KGB sleeper agents living in the northeastern U.S. in the summer of 2010.
The Americans is co-produced by Fox Television Studios and FX Productions. The series is created by Joe Weisberg, and is executive-produced by Weisberg, Graham Yost, and Joel Fields (“Rizzoli & Isles”), along with Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey of DreamWorks Television. Gavin O’Conner (“Warrior”) directed the pilot.
The Americans is distributed by 20th Century Fox Television Distribution.
The Americans is a period drama about the complex marriage of two KGB spies posing as Americans in suburban Washington D.C. shortly after Ronald Regan is elected President.
The series is centered on Philip (Matthew Rhys) and Elizabeth (Keri Russell) Jennings, who have two children – 13-year-old Paige (Holly Taylor) and 10-year-old Henry (Keidrich Sellati), who know nothing about their parents’ true identity.
The arranged marriage of Philip and Elizabeth grows more passionate and genuine by the day, but is constantly tested by the escalation of the Cold War and the intimate, dangerous and darkly funny relationships they must maintain with a network of spies and informants under their control. Philip’s growing sense of affinity for America’s values and ways of life further complicate the couple’s relationship.
Tensions also heighten upon the arrival of a new neighbor, Stan Beeman (Noah Emmerich), an FBI agent. Stan and his partner, Agent Chris Amador (Maximiliano Hernandez) are members of a new division of Counterintelligence tasked with fighting against foreign agents on U.S. soil, including KGB Directorate S illegals, Russian spies posing as Americans.
The Americans, from executive producer/showrunner Joe Weisberg (“Falling Skies”), alongside executive producer Graham Yost (“Justified”), is set in the final years of the Cold War and was inspired by the FBI’s arrests of multiple KGB sleeper agents living in the northeastern U.S. in the summer of 2010.
The Americans is co-produced by Fox Television Studios and FX Productions. The series is created by Joe Weisberg, and is executive-produced by Weisberg, Graham Yost, and Joel Fields (“Rizzoli & Isles”), along with Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey of DreamWorks Television. Gavin O’Conner (“Warrior”) directed the pilot.
The Americans is distributed by 20th Century Fox Television Distribution.
Episode one:
In 1981, Philip and Elizabeth Jennings (Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell) are undercover Soviet intelligence agents from the secretive Directorate S of the KGB sent to the U.S. 15 years ago to work deep cover in Washington, D.C.
Their assumed identities are a married couple who run a travel agency, and even their own children Paige (Holly Taylor) and Henry (Keidrich Sellati) do not know their secret.
Before coming to the U.S., they were instructed not to share their personal lives with each other.
The Jennings become stuck with Timochev, a Soviet defector they had abducted to send back to the Soviet Union.
Meanwhile, FBI Counter-Intelligence Agent Stan Beeman (Noah Emmerich) has moved in across the street with his family. Philip and Elizabeth must figure out what to do with Timochev, who remains locked in the trunk of their car, while they contemplate whether or not Beeman's arrival is a coincidence.
Episode one:
In 1981, Philip and Elizabeth Jennings (Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell) are undercover Soviet intelligence agents from the secretive Directorate S of the KGB sent to the U.S. 15 years ago to work deep cover in Washington, D.C.
Their assumed identities are a married couple who run a travel agency, and even their own children Paige (Holly Taylor) and Henry (Keidrich Sellati) do not know their secret.
Before coming to the U.S., they were instructed not to share their personal lives with each other.
The Jennings become stuck with Timochev, a Soviet defector they had abducted to send back to the Soviet Union.
Meanwhile, FBI Counter-Intelligence Agent Stan Beeman (Noah Emmerich) has moved in across the street with his family. Philip and Elizabeth must figure out what to do with Timochev, who remains locked in the trunk of their car, while they contemplate whether or not Beeman's arrival is a coincidence.
Showing ITV 1st June 2200 - 2320
tammyy2j
22-05-2013, 14:49
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gth9kl2Q4I0
Sat 08 Jun 2013
Time:
10.15pm - 11.15pm
Episode two: The Clock
Philip, posing as Swedish Intelligence Officer Scott Berman, seduces Annalise (Gillian Alexy) and convinces her to discreetly take photos of the U.S. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger's office.
A meeting is to take place in three days between Weinberger, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her defense secretary John Nott to discuss the Americans' proposed Strategic Defense Initiative.
Philip and Elizabeth have been asked to infiltrate and bug that office; using the photos, they decide to plant the bug in a clock in the office. They enlist the help of the Weinbergers' cleaning lady Viola (Tonye Patano).
Meanwhile, Agent Beeman convinces Nina (Annet Mahendru), a clerk at the Soviet embassy, to spy for the FBI. She sees the Soviet ambassador celebrating his own undercover agents' work. The Soviets are seen listening in on the defense initiative conversation.
Sat 08 Jun 2013
Time:
10.15pm - 11.15pm
Episode two: The Clock
Philip, posing as Swedish Intelligence Officer Scott Berman, seduces Annalise (Gillian Alexy) and convinces her to discreetly take photos of the U.S. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger's office.
A meeting is to take place in three days between Weinberger, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her defense secretary John Nott to discuss the Americans' proposed Strategic Defense Initiative.
Philip and Elizabeth have been asked to infiltrate and bug that office; using the photos, they decide to plant the bug in a clock in the office. They enlist the help of the Weinbergers' cleaning lady Viola (Tonye Patano).
Meanwhile, Agent Beeman convinces Nina (Annet Mahendru), a clerk at the Soviet embassy, to spy for the FBI. She sees the Soviet ambassador celebrating his own undercover agents' work. The Soviets are seen listening in on the defense initiative conversation.
nice to have a show set in the 80s on tv again
Sat 15 Jun 2013
10.00pm - 11.00pm
Episode three: Gregory
Nina, the FBI's new KGB asset, tells Agent Beeman about an agent who had been killed the same night Timochev went missing. The dead agent is shown to be Rob, the man Timochev had stabbed. The FBI trace him to an address in Philadelphia and discover he has a wife named Joyce (Audrey Esparza) and child.
The Jennings receive a curious newspaper message from Rob in the classifieds, placed after his death, scheduling a meet in Philadelphia. Suspicious, Philip suggests having their agent Gregory (Derek Luke), a former black militant whom Elizabeth had recruited, use his "team" to go to the meet.
Unknown to Philip, Elizabeth and Gregory had been in love; however, she now refuses his advances, saying that she and Philip are getting along better.
At the meet, Gregory deduces that Joyce had set up the meeting, unaware she is being followed by an FBI surveillance team. Using his team to create obstacles, Gregory is able to snatch her without the FBI seeing.
tammyy2j
05-06-2013, 14:02
I enjoyed the pilot but I do like Matthew Rhys
22nd June 2013
Episode four:
President Reagan is shot. Both nations' agencies are eager to learn if the other was involved.
After completing their first mission of questioning Reagan's nurses who ensure he will survive, the Jennings learn they are to mark key U.S. officials for future sniper hits.
This leads to their discovery that Secretary of State Alexander Haig, who has assumed control of the U.S., also has the codes to possibly launch a nuclear war. Elizabeth panics, wishing to inform the Soviets, but Philip insists on further investigation.
They see Stan Beeman arrive home and go to learn what he knows. He gives John Hinckley, Jr.'s motivation behind the attempt and Elizabeth mentions thinking Stan investigated spies. There was a concern the Soviets might have been involved but that was quickly refuted.
As Stan and his wife grow farther apart, Philip and Elizabeth get closer, even knowing that withholding knowledge of Haig's complete temporary power could get them killed.
29th June
COMINT
Elizabeth meets with Adam Dorwin, a manager of a private company contracted by the U.S. government for the missile defense program.
Dorwin is later revealed to be KGB Agent Udacha, who feels nervous and alone because the KGB cannot contact him out of fear the FBI will move in.
The FBI has new encrypted radios so the KGB cannot tell when they are being followed.
Elizabeth turns her focus on another man who handles the technology, and learns the encryption devices are mobile. She and Philip track down one of the mobile units in the trunk of an FBI car. Elizabeth decides to make an imprint of an encrypted card, at the risk of being caught in the car's trunk.
Meanwhile, Stan pressures Nina into learning if the KGB will meet with Udacha. When the code is learned by the KGB, the meeting is set. The FBI knew of it and follows Udacha's contact to the supposed meet, while Elizabeth is with Udacha at another site. These actions force the KGB to realize they have a mole.
6th July
Episode six: Trust Me
Philip and Elizabeth are separately abducted and questioned about being KGB spies in America.
Neither admit to it, even if evidence is presented otherwise. Their captors are revealed to be the KGB trying to ferret out the mole, as the Jennings were first to discover the encryptions which were immediately changed by the FBI.
The Jennings manage to turn the tables on their captors, which includes Claudia, whom Elizabeth beats mercilessly to send a message to whoever authorized their abduction.
Philip seethes at Elizabeth for what he considers a betrayal, after she tells him that she had earlier told their handlers that he "liked the U.S. too much" which he feels has led to them being under suspicion.
Although fearing being caught, Nina cleverly frames Vasili as the mole within the Soviet embassy, with some help from Stan.
Meanwhile, not knowing where their parents are, Paige and Henry hitchhike home from the mall. Nick (Michael Oberholtzer), the man who picks them up, becomes creepy to them and they are able to escape after he stops along the way.
The two kids promise to keep the situation a secret between them.
13th July
Episode six: Duty and Honor
Philip is sent to New York City to discredit a Polish dissident. He starts working there and has sex with an agent named Irina, who was his lover before he left Russia. She asserts that her son in Russia is from that relationship. After the successful mission, she tells Philip she plans to leave the KGB and disappear; she invites Philip to join her but he declines.
Elizabeth develops a new source within the SDI project by paying off his gambling debt.
Stan misses a family dinner to work late; his colleague takes him to a bar and urges him to pick up a woman for casual sex, but he instead calls Nina. They have sex under circumstances which strongly hint that Nina is playing her handler.
Agent Gaad indicates that the FBI may never deliver on Stan's promise to eventually extricate Nina from the embassy.
When Philip returns, Elizabeth apologizes for their prior rift and asks him to try to make their marriage real. He agrees but lies to her about his night with Irina.
20th July
Mutually Assured Destruction
Claudia tells Elizabeth about Philip's affair with Irina; Elizabeth decides to be his professional partner only and abandon the "real marriage".
Elsewhere, the KGB has hired a West German contractor to kill American scientists but has changed its mind and cannot recall him. With unwitting help from Philip's informant Martha (Alison Wright), an FBI clerical worker, the Jennings track him down. However, he has already rigged a time bomb that kills a scientist and three of his FBI protectors — Gaad vows vengeance.
Meanwhile, until Nina can be extracted for protection, Gaad gives Stan keys to a safe house in which to meet her, which she surmises Stan means to be their love nest.
Lastly, after being spurned by Martha, Agent Amador becomes suspicious and starts to follow her.
27th July
Episode nine:
Philip and Elizabeth tell the kids that they are going to live apart for a while—they don't take it well.
Meanwhile, Gaad plans to assassinate Arkady, the new KGB resident, on his regular jogging route.
Philip spends the night with Martha, and the next morning Amador confronts him. They fight and Amador is stabbed; Philip takes him to a deserted building where he and Elizabeth attempt to treat him and question him about the FBI's plans.
At the time of Arkady's regular jog, the FBI find only his assistant Vlad, as Arkady is fortuitously injured. On Beeman's unauthorized initiative, the FBI seize Vlad and take him to the safe house. Beeman phones Arkady and threatens to kill Vlad unless Amador is released...
3rd August
Episode ten:
In the aftermath of Amador’s murder, Gregory finds himself with limited options. As the FBI get closer and closer, Gregory makes his choice, much to Elizabeth’s distress.
10th August
Episode eleven: Covert Wars
After learning of the assassination of a Soviet General whom she knew from her formative years as an agent, Elizabeth is hellbent on revenge, despite it going against her orders. Phillip steps in to help whilst also advancing a step forwards in their separation, but has their teamwork given the FBI a clue as to their identity?
17th August
Episode twelve: The Oath
Nina gets closer to Stan, and begins to uncover his role in Vlad’s death. Elizabeth and Phillip continue their separation, with Phillip asking Elizabeth to pose as his sister at his secret identity Clark’s wedding to Martha. Under pressure, Weinberger’s maid confesses to planting a bugged clock in his office.
24th August
Episode thirteen: The Colonel
Series finale. Following the discovery of their bug in Weinberger’s office, Elizabeth and Philip are drawn into the FBI’s trap; Nina is assured by Arkady that she will be given a chance to redeem herself, and an opportunity immediately presents itself. Stan tries one last time to patch things up with an unenthusiastic Sandra; and Claudia finds herself due for reassignment following Elizabeth’s criticism.
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