ITV has reversed course on The Americans, picking up both the third and fourth seasons of the acclaimed spy drama for ITV Encore after the show’s UK future had been left in doubt.
Created by former CIA officer Joe Weisberg, The Americans is set in the early 1980s at the height of the Cold War. Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys star as Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, two KGB deep-cover agents living as an ordinary married couple in the Washington suburbs, running a travel agency and raising two children who have no idea what their parents really do.
Their double life grows ever more precarious thanks to the FBI counterintelligence agent who lives across the street, Stan Beeman, played by Noah Emmerich. The new seasons push the strain on the Jennings’ marriage and family to breaking point as the espionage closes in on home.