This FX series saw big drops in the ratings in seasons two and three but the cable channel keeps renewing The Americans anyway. Will the numbers continue to fall in season four? Will this critically-acclaimed drama be allowed to end on its own schedule? Cancelled or renewed for season five? Stay tuned.
Taking place in the 1980s, The Americans revolves around the lives and secret work of Elizabeth (Keri Russell) and Philip Jennings (Matthew Rhys) — two Soviet KGB officers who are posing as an American married couple in the suburbs of Washington, DC. Others in the cast include Noah Emmerich, Holly Taylor, Keidrich Sellati, Annet Mahendru, Alison Wright, Lev Gorn, Costa Ronin, Richard Thomas, Margo Martindale, and Frank Langella.
The ratings are typically the best indication of a show’s chances of staying on the air. The higher the ratings, the better the chances for survival. This chart will be updated as new ratings data becomes available.
5/25 update: FX has renewed The Americans for season five and season six (which will be the show’s last).
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For comparisons: The third season of The Americans averaged a 0.31 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 1.08 million viewers.
What do you think? Do you like The Americans TV show? Do you think that it should be cancelled or renewed for a fifth season?
We’re a couple of Canadians who got hooked on The Americans a couple of years ago when FX aired every episode of Seasons 1 & 2 over a weekend during the Xmas holidays. I was recovering from a surgery so it was the perfect TV to get me though those days, and my wife could hardly leave the room as well. We’ve loved Keri Russell since August Rush, and the show is simply riveting!
Excellent! Can’t say enough about this spectacular drama, filled with so much suspense and edge-of-the-seat gripping attention from the first class acting. I would say its all time tops in its handling of subject matter and being a period drama. Casting, dialog, directing….all just perfect! I predict it will be a binge watcher hit on Netflix.
The Americans is riveting. The acting superb. I would like to see Margarita Levieva (The Blacklist) in this series – I am surprised she was overlooked as she is a Russian born Jewish-American actress. Otherwise, the cast is exceptional.
I am as engaged in this show today as I was the very first episode of the first season. So glad we are getting 2 more years and that it will be a planned ending. Its so rare to get such high quality writing matched up with high quality acting.
The first season of the show I could not either believe the quality of all aspects of the production or wait to view succeeding episodes; but with successive seasons I have found it more difficult to suspend my incredulity(as the plot lines have gotten more bizarre) and the dead bodies (especially of innocents) have piled up, making it impossible to sympathize with the primary characters. This show should be ended and wrapped up this season.
This is a great show, and I’d hate to see it go. I watch it every week, and love it.
Love this show please don’t kill it. We Binge watch it so I don’t think we get added as a viewer. It is smart, and suspenseful. Keep it going please.
Love this show and don’t want them to cancel it.
I love this show, from season one up till now. Please make a season five. I know people who just started watching season one and have binged on the episodes. They are hooked. Not sure if you are just taking the ratings from the night it airs but you shouldn’t. Not everyone stays up past ten. I watch it the next day.
The Americans is my favorite show on television. The relationship between Kerri and Matt keeps keeps you involved as they are able to compartmentalize their personal and espionage lives. The writes do a good job of keeping you on the edge of your seat wondering if and when they will be caught. I also like the interaction Matt has with the CIA agent and his realationship with Martha. I hope the ratings pick up and the show runs a minimum of five seasons.
Everyone I know in IT watches this show now, albeit tivo’d by some. It’s full of possibilities plotwise so makes for great water cooler conversation. Keri Russell rocked in that punk blonde wig last season. Bring that disguise back please! The long black one plus red leather skirt was good too. And Nina is a doe-eyed beauty no matter what ugly Russian dresses she has to wear.
As far as I’m concerned, FX has a hit with “The Americans.” The writing, acting. etc., is just brilliant! So the ratings aren’t the best, that doesn’t translate into viewers at that moment in time. Kerri & Matt have that “special something,” so keep this show on the air, FX!
This is a great show. I just wish there wasn’t as much about that Russian girl… that’s pretty boring.
You got your wish.