Joe Weisberg

AUSTIN, Texas— As FX’s critically acclaimed drama “The Americans” heads toward its final season, the show’s creators Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields came to the ATX TV Festival to discuss their approach…

Spoiler alert: This interview contains details from “The Americans” season 5 finale “The Soviet Division. The end is near for FX's "The Americans." With only 10 episodes remaining in next year's…

It’s the best of times and the worst of times for FX’s “The Americans.” The critically acclaimed drama launched Season 5 (its penultimate run in a now six-season plan) Tuesday night and returns to…

Welcome to Remote Controlled, Variety’s podcast series featuring the best and brightest in television, both in front of and behind the camera. This week’s episode features Variety executive editor of…

Several series have taken on a different pallor in light of recent events: “24: Legacy” and its depiction of Muslim terrorists infiltrating the United States have come under fire after the President…

For the past three years, "The Americans" has been a staple of Emmy "snub" lists. This season it's a leading contender for Emmy Awards. After winning a raft of accolades and kudos from other…

"The number of potential ways that could go bad are hard to enumerate."

Do not read on unless you’ve seen “Chloramphenicol,” the fourth episode of the fourth season of “The Americans.” At the end of Wednesday’s “The Americans,” the story of Soviet operative Nina Krilova…

FX’s “The Americans,” set in the last great gasp of the Cold War in the early 1980s, jogs memories of Yaz and K-cars, but the third season also is marked by reminders of just how much history repeats…

Yes, you're supposed to feel uncomfortable with this storyline.

FX Productions is adding more heft to its growing roster of talent, setting separate two-year overall deals with “The Americans” exec producers Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields. "Working with Joe and…