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Salang Pass (The Americans)
"Salang Pass" is the fifth episode of third season of the American television drama series ''The Americans'', and the 31st overall episode of the series. It originally aired on February 25, 2015, in the United States on FX. The title references the Salang Pass, located in Afghanistan. Plot The episode opens with Philip (disguised as Clark) and Martha looking into fostering a child. Philip continues to bond with Paige, causing tension between him and Elizabeth, while at the same time working a new contact, Kimmy, the daughter of a CIA officer in the Afghanistan group who is about Paige's age. Meanwhile, Elizabeth, disguised as a recovering alcoholic, continues her friendship with Lisa as Lisa applies for a transfer to the nearby Northrop plant. Stan continues to negotiate with Oleg in an attempt to trade a suspected Soviet spy for Nina, while beginning to give up on his attempts to get back together with his wife, Sandra. Yousaf, Philip's contact in the Pakistani diplomatic missi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Americans
''The Americans'' is an American historical drama, period spy fiction, spy drama television series created by Joe Weisberg that aired on the FX (TV channel), FX television network for six seasons from January 30, 2013, to May 30, 2018. Weisberg and Joel Fields also serve as showrunners and are executive producers. Set during the Cold War, the show follows the story of Elizabeth Jennings (The Americans), Elizabeth (Keri Russell) and Philip Jennings (The Americans), Philip Jennings (Matthew Rhys), two Soviet KGB intelligence officers posing as an American married couple living in Falls Church, Virginia, Falls Church, a Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C., with their children, Paige (Holly Taylor) and Henry (Keidrich Sellati). It also explores the conflict between Washington's Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI office and the KGB ''Resident spy, Rezidentura'' there, by following the perspectives of agents on both sides, including the Jennings' neighbor Stan Beeman (Noah Emmerich), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Schiff
{{Infobox person , name = Stephen Schiff , image = , image_size = , alt = , caption = , birth_name = , birth_date = , birth_place = Detroit, Michigan, United States , education = , alma_mater = , occupation = Writer , years_active = , awards = Golden Globe, Pulitzer Prize finalist, two Writers Guild of America Awards and two additional nominations, Writers Guild of America Richard B. Jablow Award, Peabody Award, two Emmy Award nominations, Critics Choice Award, American Film Institute Award, Television Critics Association Award, Producers Guild Award Stephen Schiff is an American screenwriter, producer, and journalist. He is best known for his work at ''The New Yorker'' and '' Vanity Fair'', his screenplays for '' Lolita'', ''True Crime'', and '' Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps'', and his work as a writer and producer on the FX ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Dowling (director)
Kevin Dowling is an AmericanRyan, Desmond"In Sum, He Was Just Right: Kevin Dowling Wasn't Hollywood's Choice To Direct 'The Sum Of Us.' But His Perseverance In The Face Of Prejudice Paid Off."''The Philadelphia Inquirer'', April 10, 1995. Quote: "Hollywood complained that the theater veteran ... didn't have the credentials to make a movie. In Australia, Dowling failed to measure up for a different reason: He wasn't Australian. ... e Aussies wanted one of their own to direct, not a guy who grew up in he Philadelphia, Pennsylvania">Philadelphia.html" ;"title="he Philadelphia">he Philadelphia, Pennsylvania suburb] Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, Gladwyne." Note: The widely used website FilmReference.com erroneously states Dowling is Australian. film, television director and producer. Throughout his career, Kevin has worked in over 60 projects. Biography Early life and New York theater Kevin Dowling was raised in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, the son of Dr. John J. Do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Flock Of Seagulls
A Flock of Seagulls are an English new wave band formed in Liverpool in 1979. The group, whose best-known line-up comprised Mike Score, Ali Score, Frank Maudsley and Paul Reynolds, hit the peak of their chart success in the early 1980s. The group had a string of international hit singles including "I Ran (So Far Away)" (1982), "Space Age Love Song" (1982), " Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)" (1982), and "The More You Live, the More You Love" (1984). Their video for "I Ran (So Far Away)" received airplay on MTV during the Second British Invasion. The band won a Grammy Award in 1983 for their instrumental " D.N.A." (1982). In 2018, the members of the original lineup came together to record an album with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra entitled '' Ascension''. In 2021, the original lineup once again reunited temporarily to record another album with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra entitled ''String Theory''. History 1979–1986: Formation and mainstream success A Fl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dimebag (The Americans)
"Dimebag" is the fourth episode of third season of the American television drama series ''The Americans'', and the 30th overall episode of the series. It originally aired on February 18, 2015 in the United States on FX. Plot After learning their telephone target has employed Kimberly "Kimmy" Breland, daughter of the head of the CIA's Afghan group, as a babysitter, Phillip is tasked with recruiting Kimmy, who is nearly the same age as Paige. He provides fake IDs for Kimmy and her friends, and later she asks to see him alone. They smoke pot and listen to her favorite album together. Nina is pressured to get a confession from her cellmate, Evi Sneijder, and slowly starts to open up to her. Stan publicly voices his opinion at an EST meeting and is asked out on a date afterward by a woman named Tori; he turns her down flat in spite of Phillip's reminder that "you are single now". Later, Stan confesses his affair to his wife, Sandra, who is upset by his confession. Paige's birthday ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Born Again (The Americans)
"Born Again" is the sixth episode of third season of the American television drama series ''The Americans'', and the 32nd overall episode of the series. It originally aired on March 4, 2015 in the United States on FX. Plot Paige gets baptized by Pastor Tim, with Philip and Elizabeth in attendance. Later, Tori and Stan have dinner at the Jennings house, and despite his admitting that he still considers Sandra his wife, he and Tori have sex. Gabriel informs Philip that his other son is now a soldier in Afghanistan. This causes Philip to increase his visits with Kimmy to check the phone taps. Kimmy tries to seduce Philip. Meanwhile, Nina portrays herself as vulnerable to get Evi to confess about her boyfriend's treason. Evi gets taken away and Nina gets rewarded with a meal. Production The episode was written by Tracey Scott Wilson and directed by Kevin Dowling. Reception The episode was watched by 930,000 viewers and scored 0.24 ratings in 18–49 demographics, as per Nielsen ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Americans (season 3)
The third season of the American television drama series ''The Americans'', consisting of 13 episodes, premiered on FX on January 28, 2015, and concluded on April 22, 2015. The series was renewed for the third season on April 16, 2014. The events of the third season begin in late 1982 and end on March 8, 1983, the night of Ronald Reagan's Evil Empire speech. Cast Main * Keri Russell as Elizabeth Jennings (Nadezhda), a KGB officer * Matthew Rhys as Philip Jennings (Mischa), a KGB officer * Lev Gorn as Arkady Ivanovich Zotov, the KGB's Resident * Annet Mahendru as Nina Sergeevna Krilova, Beeman's Soviet mole * Susan Misner as Sandra Beeman, Stan's wife * Costa Ronin as Oleg Igorevich Burov, a KGB officer * Keidrich Sellati as Henry Jennings, Elizabeth and Philip's son * Holly Taylor as Paige Jennings, Elizabeth and Philip's daughter * Richard Thomas as Frank Gaad, special agent in charge of the FBI Counterintelligence Division * Alison Wright as Martha Hanson, Gaad's se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FX (TV Channel)
FX is an American pay television channel owned by FX Networks, LLC, a subsidiary of the Disney General Entertainment Content unit of The Walt Disney Company. It is based at the Fox Studios lot in Century City, California. FX originally launched on June 1, 1994. The network's original programming aspires to the standards of premium cable channels in regard to mature themes and content, high-quality writing, directing and acting. Sister channels FXM and FXX were launched in 1994 and 2013, respectively. FX also carries reruns of theatrical films and terrestrial-network sitcoms. Advertising-free content was available through the FX+ premium subscription service until it was shut down on August 21, 2019. As of September 2018, FX is available to approximately 89.2 million television households (96.7% of households with cable) in the United States. In addition to the flagship U.S. network, the "FX" name is licensed to a number of related pay television channels in various countries ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salang Pass
The Salang Pass ( ps, د سالنګ لاره; prs, كتل سالنگ ''Kutal-i Salang'', el. ) is the primary mountain pass connecting northern Afghanistan with Parwan Province, with onward connections to Kabul Province, southern Afghanistan, and to the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.Library of Congress Country Study: Afghanistan Chapter 2: Mountains Located on the border of and , it is just to the East of the |
Nielsen Ratings
Nielsen Media Research (NMR) is an American firm that measures media audiences, including television, radio, theatre, films (via the AMC Theatres MAP program), and newspapers. Headquartered in New York City, it is best known for the Nielsen ratings, an audience measurement system of television viewership that for years has been the deciding factor in canceling or renewing television shows by television networks. As of May 2012, it is part of Nielsen Holdings. NMR began as a division of ACNielsen, a 1923-founded marketing research firm. In 1996, NMR was split off into an independent company, and in 1999, was purchased by the Dutch conglomerate VNU. In 2001, VNU also purchased ACNielsen, thereby bringing both companies under the same corporate umbrella. NMR is also a sister company to Nielsen//NetRatings, which measures Internet and digital media audiences. VNU was reorganized and renamed the Nielsen Company in 2007. History The Nielsen TV Ratings have been produced in the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The A
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Sepinwall
Alan Sepinwall (born October 19, 1973) is an American television reviewer and writer. He spent 14 years as a columnist with ''The Star-Ledger'' in Newark until leaving the newspaper in 2010 to work for the entertainment news website HitFix. He then wrote for Uproxx, where he worked for two years. Since 2018, he has been the chief TV critic for ''Rolling Stone''. Sepinwall began writing about television with reviews of '' NYPD Blue'' while attending the University of Pennsylvania, which led to his job at ''The Star-Ledger''. In 2007, immediately after ''The Sopranos'' ended, series creator David Chase granted his sole interview to Sepinwall. In 2009, Sepinwall openly urged NBC to renew the action-comedy series ''Chuck'', and NBC Entertainment co-president Ben Silverman sarcastically credited Sepinwall for the show's revival. Slate.com said Sepinwall "changed the nature of television criticism" and called him the "acknowledged king of the form" with regard to weekly episode recaps ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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