The Season 2 premiere of FX’s spy drama “The Americans” held both bad and good ratings news for the series Wednesday night.
The premiere dropped off heavily from last year’s season premiere, but landed on a par with the show’s Season 1 average.
According to preliminary numbers, the Season 2 premiere of “The Americans” — which stars Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell as a pair of Reagan-era Russian spies going undercover as a suburban American couple — drew 1.9 million total viewers, a 41 percent decline from last January’s series premiere.
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In the 18-49 demographic most important to advertisers, “The Americans” had a similar dropoff, sliding 45 percent from the series premiere with 863,000 viewers in the demo versus 1.57