Imitation is the sincerest form of television, and everybody steals from everybody else. #2: Viewership for “The Americans” is so small that NBC can’t be making programming decisions based on whether they’re offending that audience. #1: This happens in the TV business all the time. But the premise is so similar to “The Americans” – and particularly to recent plot developments on that show – that it’s hard to avoid making that comparison if you watch the adventures of Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys and their wigs every week. Yes, “Allegiance” (which debuts tonight at 10) is based on an Israeli series, and there are some notable differences from the FX drama: it’s set in present-day, the parents are retired spies reluctantly forced back into active service, they have two adult kids (one of whom, played by Gavin Stenhouse, works for the CIA), etc. Most of them go something like The NBC promo for Allegiance might as well say, “We literally just ripped off The Americans from FX.”Īnd I get it. For the past few weeks, my Twitter mentions have been filled with indignation over the existence of “Allegiance,” the new NBC drama starring Hope Davis and Scott Cohen as Russian deep cover agents who are pressured to recruit one of their kids to the cause.
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