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Totally Biased With W. Kamau Bell returns tonight with guest Melissa Harris-Perry

May 9, 2013 | By Stacey Harrison
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Totally Biased With W. Kamau Bell Thursday, May 9 FX, 11pm ET/PT Rising star W. Kamau Bell returns with a new batch of episodes of his late-night talk show that unapologetically discusses politics, pop culture, race, religion, sex, the media — you know, all that stuff you’re not supposed to bring up at parties. Tonight’s guest on Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell will be MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry, who was the center of a controversy for saying in a network promo that “”we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong [...]

The Americans FX: Producers speak out about Season 1 finale, Season 2

May 2, 2013 | By Stacey Harrison
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The Americans ended its Season 1 run Wednesday night with a suspenseful, action-packed finale, “The Colonel.” It was a lot easier to watch knowing that the engrossing Cold War drama, which follows KGB spies Philip (Matthew Rhys) and Elizabeth (Keri Russell) living deep undercover near Washington, D.C., and posing as a married couple, has been renewed for Season 2. Executive producers and writers Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields, who were very happy to get out of the writers room for a while, spoke with reporters this week about the finale and where the show might go from here: WARNING: THE [...]

The Americans FX finale preview: “The Colonel”

April 26, 2013 | By Stacey Harrison
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The Americans: “The Colonel” Wednesday, May 1 FX, 10pm ET It’s been a bumpy ride in the debut season of The Americans, both with the chilling Cold War drama playing out onscreen, and a few technical glitches that have disrupted the viewing experience. Ratings-wise, however, the show has been a smash, having nabbed a record 5.11 million viewers in its January debut, making it FX’s most-watched premiere ever. Season 2 will be coming next year. Until then, this Wednesday’s episode will be the last chance we have to catch up with our favorite undercover Russkie spies. In “The Colonel,” Philip [...]

Legit finale date, time, TV channel, preview and more!

April 8, 2013 | By Stacey Harrison
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Legit: “Fatherhood” Thursday, April 11 10:30pm ET, FX. Hey, remember way back in the Legit pilot when Jim hired that prostitute to take Billy’s virginity? Well, as funny/wrong/weirdly inspirational as that episode was, it has set up an even stranger season finale. In “Fatherhood,” Wendy the prostitute returns, pregnant with Billy’s baby. It’s safe to say that when Kate Luyben signed on to play Wendy, it wasn’t a role she was ever expecting to reprise. But life is funny sometimes, and not only is she back playing Wendy, she’s also now Legit star Jim Jefferies’ real-life girlfriend and the mother of [...]

Ang Lee to direct FX pilot “Tyrant” — and other big-time directors who have gone to TV

March 14, 2013 | By Stacey Harrison
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Not many people expected Ang Lee to take home the Best Director trophy at the Academy Awards last month for Life of Pi. He’s defying expectations yet again with his follow-up project, a pilot for FX called Tyrant, scheduled to shoot this summer. Tyrant tells the story of an unassuming American family drawn into the workings of a turbulent Middle Eastern nation, FX said in a release. Other than that, all we know is it comes from writers and producers of shows like Homeland and Lost, so yeah, we’ll be tuning in. But Lee’s move to the small screen isn’t [...]

FX’s “The Americans” serves up a Cold War dish of intrigue

January 30, 2013 | By Stacey Harrison
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There’s a temptation to look back fondly on the Cold War, if for no other reason than that the line between good and evil was clearly drawn: the U.S. hated the Soviet Union and vice versa. But in The Americans — premiering tonight at 10 on FX — that line is muddled, both for the characters and the audience. The time is 1981, and Philip (Matthew Rhys) and Elizabeth Jennings (Keri Russell) seem like the all-American couple, running a travel agency and raising their two children in suburban Virginia. But what their neighbors — and even their children — don’t know [...]

FX unveils title sequence for “The Americans”

January 23, 2013 | By Stacey Harrison
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FX offered this sneak peek of the title sequence of its upcoming Cold War drama The Americans, which stars Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys as a pair of KGB spies living undercover in the Washington, D.C., suburbs in 1981. The network says the sequence will be incorporated into the series beginning with Episode 2, so I guess we’re all on our own during the premiere 10pm Jan. 30.

“American Horror Story” officially has a problem with endings

January 23, 2013 | By Stacey Harrison
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WARNING: MASSIVE SPOILER ALERTS!!!! Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, what the hell’s wrong with you, American Horror Story? Tonight’s Season 2 finale, “Madness Ends,” which airs at 10pm on FX, has me feeling some familiar frustrations. Last season I willfully and gladly went along with the big ball of crazy that befell the Harmon family, not caring that the rules were established, then seemingly broken at will. Just what the heck ghosts were capable of, anyway? I thought they couldn’t leave the house, but then I see one riding in the back of a squad car? [...]

The Ultimate Fighter changes — Tuesday timeslot, documentary style, family at the octagon

January 21, 2013 | By Lori Acken
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Whether you tune into The Ultimate Fighter for the action in the octagon or the drama in the house, you’ll notice some welcome changes to the newest cycle of the FX series — beginning with its Tuesday night time-slot. Having asked UFC president Dana White for one more shot at bolstering the show’s Friday night ratings, which trailed painfully behind the audience numbers TUF enjoyed at Spike, FX head John Landgraf honored his promise to move it to Tuesdays as a lead-in to the network’s hit drama Justified. In the newest go-round, twenty-eight middleweight fighters will battle for a slot on [...]

Jim Jefferies goes “Legit” in new FX comedy

January 16, 2013 | By Stacey Harrison
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When Jim Jefferies answers the phone at the agreed-upon time (between a network publicist and myself), just about the first thing he says is that he forgot he was doing an interview today. Not an unusual occurrence in my line of work. Busy people, packed schedules, these things happen. But I often don’t hear people tell me they just got out of the shower, meaning there was a pretty good chance that he was naked, and asking could I please call back in seven minutes. “Actually, how about eight minutes?” he quickly amended. So, eight minutes later I called him [...]