Joe Weisberg

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Joe Weisberg
Occupation Writer, producer
Years active 2011–present

Joe Weisberg is an American television writer-producer and a former CIA officer. He is the current executive producer of FX's The Americans. His brother is Slate Group editor-in-chief Jacob Weisberg.

Career

The CIA officer-turned high-school teacher-turned writer has written episodes for TNT's alien invasion series Falling Skies and the DirecTV legal drama Damages. He is creator of The Americans, currently airing on FX, which centers on two KGB agents posing as American citizens in Washington, D.C. during the 1980s, and is executive-produced by Weisberg and Justified creator Graham Yost.[1][2] Weisberg also has a pilot in development, an untitled thriller centered on young CIA agents, which is being developed at Fox and will be executive produced by Weisberg, Brian Grazer and Paul Greengrass.[3]

Episodes of Falling Skies

Episodes of Damages

  • "Next One's on Me, Blondie" (4.04)

Episodes of The Americans

  • "Pilot" (1.01)
  • "The Clock" (1.02)
  • "In Control" (co-written with Joel Fields) (1.04)
  • "Mutually Assured Destruction" (co-written with Joel Fields) (1.08)
  • "The Colonel" (co-written with Joel Fields) (1.13)

References

  1. ↑ Bill Brioux (2013-01-30). "The Americans debuts on FX Canada Jan. 30". Toronto Star. The Canadian Press. Retrieved 2013-02-15. 
  2. ↑ Andreeva, Nellie (December 16, 2011). "FX Greenlights Drama Pilot About 1980s KGB Spies Posing As U.S. Suburbanites". Deadline. Retrieved May 3, 2012. 
  3. ↑ Andreeva, Nellie (November 17, 2011). "Paul Greengrass Joins Fox CIA Drama As EP". Deadline. Retrieved May 3, 2012. 

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