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Copa America Centenario TV schedule on FOX Sports

Celebrating 100 years, Copa America is soccer’s championship of the Western Hemisphere, featuring a 16-team field from CONMEBOL and CONCACAF. Ten U.S. cities host this year’s tournament, the first held outside South America and the biggest men’s soccer tournament on U.S. soil since the 1994 FIFA World Cup. The USMNT is in Group A with Colombia, Costa Rica and Paraguay, and opens the tournament June 3 against Colombia at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif. Top contenders hoping for a spot in the final match June 26 in East Rutherford, N.J., include Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile and Colombia. FOX, FS1, […]

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The Americans Season 4 focuses on “emotional cost” for the Jennings family

The Americans Season 4 kicks off in the wake of Paige (Holly Taylor) alerting her pastor last season to the Russian origin of her parents, Philip (Matthew Rhys) and Elizabeth (Keri Russell). We’ll see how that impacts Philip and Elizabeth, but also how it impacts Paige, and her relationship with her parents. What will the family dynamic be going forward? “There’s always a sense of disillusionment from a teenager who’s growing to see his or her parents in a new, more realistic light as they grow up,” said executive producer/co-showrunner/writer Joel Fields at a recent press conference. “It just so happens […]

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U.S. TV coverage of Der Klassiker (Borussia Dortmund vs Bayern Munich) moved to FX

The live telecast of “Der Klassiker” — a Bundesliga clash between first-place Bayern Munich and second-place Borussia Dortmund — will now be airing in the United States on FX. The match takes place Saturday, March 5, and, along with its airing on FX, will be streamed via FXNOW and FOX Sports GO (at FS1 level authentication). (For you FX viewers who had planned to tune in at this time for the network’s airing of the feature film Bounty Hunter, sorry, but the movie will be preempted by the soccer match.) FX coverage of Der Klassiker on March 5 begins at 12pm ET […]

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TV News & Program Updates

First Look Trailer: Tom Hardy in “Taboo” for FX

Take a look at the dramatic first trailer for Taboo. The explosive drama is scheduled to premiere in 2017, which begs the question: is it 2017 yet? The eight-part drama from FX and BBC one is currently in production in London and will star Tom Hardy. Set in 1814, Taboo follows James Keziah Delaney (Hardy), a man who has been to the ends of the earth and comes back irrevocably changed. Believed to be long dead, he returns home to London from Africa to inherit what is left of his father’s shipping empire and rebuild a life for himself. But his father’s legacy is […]

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Role Call: Who’s who in FX’s “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story”

FX’s 10-episode limited series The People v. O.J. Simpson (Tuesdays at 10pm ET/PT beginning Feb. 2) dramatizes one of the seminal news stories of the 20th century: the events surrounding the arrest and trial of former football star O.J. Simpson for the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman in 1994. Based on Jeffrey Toobin’s book The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson and from executive producer Ryan Murphy, the series assembles a stellar cast, including John Travolta, Cuba Gooding Jr., David Schwimmer, Sarah Paulson, Courtney B. Vance, Bruce Greenwood, Malcolm-Jamal Warner and […]