Claim: The Americans first aired in the United States.

The Americans is an American television period drama series created and produced by former CIA officer Joe Weisberg . The series premiered in the United States on January 30 , 2013 on the cable network FX .   Set in the early 1980s during the Cold War , The Americans is the story of Elizabeth -LRB- Keri Russell -RRB- and Philip Jennings -LRB- Matthew Rhys -RRB- , two Soviet KGB officers posing as an American married couple living in the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington , D.C. , with their children Paige -LRB- Holly Taylor -RRB- and Henry -LRB- Keidrich Sellati -RRB- and their neighbor Stan Beeman -LRB- Noah Emmerich -RRB- , an FBI agent working in counterintelligence .   On May 25 , 2016 , FX set an end-date for the series by renewing it for a fifth and sixth season . The 10-episode sixth and final season is slated to air in 2018 .