New on TV this week: ‘The Americans,’ ‘The Catch,’ ‘American Crime’

As one fellow TV reporter asked the stars of “The Americans” earlier this year, “Remember when Russian infiltration was a cute little thing we were able to contain to the ’80s?” Yes, the fifth season of “The Americans” arrives with a weird sense of timeliness. But the Cold War spy thriller, however, will continue to focus inward, on Paige Jennings , who recently learned that her parents are deep-cover Russian spies and who, though still very troubled by the news, is starting to take some interest in the family biz.

13 Queer Movies You Missed Last Year

With eight nominations for Barry Jenkins’s powerful, beautiful Moonlight and a best documentary nod for the James Baldwin-centered film I Am Not Your Negro , LGBT representation will be alive and well at the 89th Academy Awards, to be held Sunday evening in Los Angeles. But there were numerous other queer films released last year – including some that deserved their own nominations .

Christie Hayes mocks Amber Sherlock’s Jacketgate meltdown

‘THE SECURITY OF OUR NATION IS AT STAKE!’ Furious Donald Trump tweets that he’ll appeal San Francisco court’s ruling as judges unanimously REFUSE to reinstate his travel ban Ohio State University student, 21, is shot dead and left near a public park just a day after she failed to return home from work and her car was reported missing Trump reaffirms ‘one China’ policy in call with President Xi in apparent move to soothe tensions over post-election phone call with Taiwan leader Hillary Clinton was ‘replaced on Vogue cover by Gigi Hadid and Kendall Jenner after election loss’ as fashion bible reveals it will cover Melania Trump moving forward CNN’s Chris Cuomo apologizes for saying being called ‘fake news’ as a journalist is the equivalent to someone using the ‘n-word’ as a racial slur Shocking moment 18-year-old serial offender is shot dead a fraction of a second after pointing his gun at … (more)

Upcoming ‘American Crime Story’ Season to Focus on Lewinsky Scandal

After winning a record 10 Emmy Awards for American Crime Story ‘s first-season storyline based on the book The Run of His Life: The People vs. O.J. Simpson by Jeffrey Toobin, the producers are planning to base an upcoming season of the series on another book written by the major Democratic donor and legal analyst for the Cable News Network: A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President . The book centers on intern Monica Lewinsky’s affair with Democratic President Bill Clinton while she was a White House intern from 1995 on.

10 reasons why Season Four finale of Sherlock was an anti-climax and a con

‘She’s still my child’: Heartbroken man who unknowingly raised girl, 18, as his own reveals how ex told him she’d given birth while he was away – when really she’d snatched baby from hospital ‘Was this the leaker of Fake News?’ Trump goes for the jugular and asks his 20M Twitter followers if outgoing CIA boss John Brennan was behind Russian dirty dossier leak – hours after spy chief told him to watch his tongue ‘We’re going to have insurance for everybody’: Trump heralds GOP’s Obamacare alternative as Rand Paul reveals it will focus on low-cost policies Eight richest men are worth the same as HALF the rest of the world: Their $420billion haul is equal to the wealth of 3.6billion people ‘My son looks like my rapist and it frightens me’: Powerful confessions from women who became pregnant after being raped Getting pizza all over her frock, ‘shooing away’ a cocktail waitress and … (more)

10 reasons why Season Four finale of Sherlock was an anti-climax and a con

‘She’s still my child’: Heartbroken man who unknowingly raised girl, 18, as his own reveals how ex told him she’d given birth while he was away – when really she’d snatched baby from hospital ‘Was this the leaker of Fake News?’ Trump goes for the jugular and asks his 20M Twitter followers if outgoing CIA boss John Brennan was behind Russian dirty dossier leak – hours after spy chief told him to watch his tongue ‘We’re going to have insurance for everybody’: Trump heralds GOP’s Obamacare alternative as Rand Paul reveals it will focus on low-cost policies Eight richest men are worth the same as HALF the rest of the world: Their $420billion haul is equal to the wealth of 3.6billion people ‘My son looks like my rapist and it frightens me’: Powerful confessions from women who became pregnant after being raped Getting pizza all over her frock, ‘shooing away’ a cocktail waitress and … (more)