FX ORDERS PILOT FOR DRAMA ABOUT REAGAN-ERA KGB SPIES IN WASHINGTON

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Posted at 07:42 PM ET, 12/1612011
FX orders pilot for drama about Reagan-era KGB
spies in Washington
By Lisa de Moraes
FX will shoot a pilot for a new drama
series about KGB agents posing as travel
agents who live in Washington during the
Reagan administration.
"The Americans" was created by Joe
Weisberg, who worked at the CIA for
about three and a half years, after which he wrote the novel "An Ordinary
Spy." These days Weisberg writes for TV; his credits include TNT's
"Falling Skies" and FX's 'Damages."
In the pilot, the marriage of Phillip and Elizabeth Jennings was arranged
by the KGB and they now have two children who are unaware of their
parents' identity. So far as they know, Mom and Dad run a travel agency
in Falls Church, VA. In the pilot episode, Reagan has just been elected,
"the Cold War heats up considerably," and the Jennings are dealing with
a KGB defector "and handle it in a way I won't reveal," Weisberg told the
TV Column coyly in a phone interview.
Phillip, meanwhile, is grappling with his growing sense of affinity for what
FX describes as the "American way of life" in the script, which Weisberg
created after being approached with an idea by Justin Falvey and Darryl
Frank, co-presidents of DreamWorks TV. DreamWorks produces "Falling
Skies" � a sci-fi drama about the aftermath of a global invasion by a
mess o' aliens, including lizard-like beings known as Skitters, some grey-
toned humanoid beings who seem to be running the show, and
mechanical attack drones, who are all making life a perfect hell for Noah
VVyle, who is a Boston University history professor. You had to be there.
Anyway, Falvey and Frank also would be among "The Americans' many
exec producers, should it go forward to'series � which is still a ways off,
since they're now looking for a director and have yet to cast any of the
roles.
Should FX turn "The Americans' into a series, Weisberg will take the
inevitable "notes"-- not just from DreamWorks, Fox TV Studios � which
is also getting in on the act 7 and all those other executive producers, but
also from the CIA, which has vetted the pilot script
"Anything I write about intelligence has to be vetted," Weisberg
explained. The vetting is done, he said, by the agency's Publications
Review Board, which also vetted his novel � a thriller about two CIA
Case Officers.
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It's the second CIA-esque FX pilot Weisberg has written. The first, about,
a CIA station in Bulgaria, did not move forward.
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