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FX And FXX Announce Premiere Dates For Justified, Archer, The Americans And More

January is looking to be one of the coldest months we've seen in the United States in a long while, but there's no real reason to go outside anyway now that FX and FXX has unveiled premiere dates for a host of their original series, including modern Western Justified, animated spy comedy Archer and Cold War espionage drama The Americans. Also on the cards for January are the return of enduring comedy It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and the series premiere of FXX's comedy Man Seeking Woman.

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Next up, Justified launches its fifth and final season on January 20th, at 10 p.m. on FX. The Emmy and Peabody Award-winning drama centers on Deputy US Marshal Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant), a hot-tempered but intelligent man who finds himself drawn back to a crime-ridden county in his home state of Kentucky. Expect the long-brewing conflict between Raylan and Boyd Crowder (Walton Goggins) to come to a head in this final season.

Finally, The Americans will return to FX on January 28th, at 10 p.m. Things continue to heat up for Philip (Matthew Rhys) and Elizabeth Jennings (Keri Russell) in Washington D.C., as the below press release details:

The Americans is a period drama about the complex marriage of two KGB spies posing as Americans in suburban Washington D.C. shortly after Ronald Reagan is elected President. The arranged marriage of Philip (Matthew Rhys) and Elizabeth Jennings (Keri Russell), who have two children – 14-year-old Paige (Holly Taylor) and 11-year-old Henry (Keidrich Sellati), who know nothing about their parents’ true identity – grows more passionate and genuine by the day, but is constantly tested by the escalation of the Cold War and the intimate, dangerous and darkly funny relationships they must maintain with a network of spies and informants under their control.

The trickiest of Philip’s sources continues to be Martha (Alison Wright), the assistant to Special Agent Gaad (Richard Thomas). In order to ensure her continued loyalty, Philip, in the guise of FBI bureaucrat “Clark,” one of his numerous cover identities, marries her. Things were going smoothly until Martha began pressuring Clark to start a family. Their neighbor, FBI Agent Stan Beeman (Noah Emmerich), could also prove to be a renewed threat. When forced to choose between betraying his country or his KGB double-agent and paramour Nina (Annet Mahendru), Stan chose the USA. Nina has been sent back to Moscow to face charges of treason, much to the dismay of her boss Arkady (Lev Gorn), Director of the KGB Rezidentura. In addition to his rededication to his mission of uncovering the identities of the Russian spies living among them, Stan is also attempting to rebuild a relationship with his estranged wife Sandra (Susan Misner).

Meanwhile, in the Jennings’ house, Philip and Elizabeth find themselves at odds over Paige’s future now that the KGB has made it clear that they want her to join the family business.

Tell us, which of these series are you most looking forward to having back on the air?