By Karen Moul

 Last night’s episode of The Americans was a big one for FBI agent Stan Beeman. The agency wanted payback for the Russian attack on the scientists, and Stan was adamant that he would not participate in an extrajudicial killing. But once his partner turned up his dead Stan didn’t just participate, he pulled the trigger.

Actor Noah Emmerich gave us some insight into his character’s state of mind.

“I think he sees it as a justifiable and promised retaliation for the murder on American soil of a federal agent,” he explained. “I think it would be more dangerous, from Stan’s point of view, to do nothing, to not retaliate, to therefore give the KGB a green light in saying you can indiscriminately execute American citizens on American soil.”

“I don’t think there’s any pleasure in it at all,” Emmerich continued. “I think it is revenge. I don’t think it’s personal, though, I think it’s political.

“It’s a Cold War, and he’s made it clear, he’s drawn a line that unless Amador is returned in health to his job there will repercussions, and if you don’t follow through with that threat then you lose all credibility in the future. So in some way I think that’s in fact what drives Stan to do that.”

Exclusive Interview with Nico Tortorella for The Following
Interview by Jamie Ruby
Written Jamie Ruby

The Fox drama The Following revolves around Joe Carroll (James Purefoy) and his devoted cult followers, as well as Ryan Hardy (Kevin Bacon), who works with the FBI to try to catch Carroll, who has escaped from prison for the second time, and is now living in a house with his kidnapped ex-wife, Claire (Natalie Zea), and son (Kyle Catlett), as well as his followers, who are generally sociopaths and killers.

One of these followers is Jacob Wells, who up until recently had never killed anyone. Jacob was recently betrayed by Emma (Valorie Curry), who left him with a dying Paul (Adan Canto; the three were lovers). After Paul begged him, Jacob suffocated him. That action, as well as Emma's betrayal, has changed him.

The actor, who plays Jacob, Nico Tortorella, recently sat down in an exclusive interview with Jamie Ruby of SciFi Vision.

When he first read the script, Tortorella was thought to be too young for the role. "It was the first script I read for pilot season last year, and originally they thought that I was going to be too young for the role, but as my team does, they pushed hard, and I got in the room and was testing the next day, and chemistry reading with Paul the day after."

'HANNIBAL' RECEIVES SOCIAL MEDIA BOOST WITH INNOVATIVE FACEBOOK, TUMBLR APPS

Fans Allowed to Feast on Games, Interviews as New NBC Drama Takes Inside Look at Notorious Dr. Lecter

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UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. — April 4, 2013 — NBC is upping its social media support for "Hannibal" with both a Facebook and Tumblr application connects the series closer to its passionate fan base.

April 03, 2013
JAY LENO ANNOUNCES HIS DEPARTURE FROM SUCCESSFUL 22-YEAR RUN FROM NBC'S 'TONIGHT SHOW" IN SPRING 2014
Jimmy Fallon (NBC's "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon") to Assume Reins of Iconic Franchise as Host

UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. – April 03, 2013 – Jay Leno, longtime host of NBC's "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," announced today that he will wrap up what will be 22 years of headlining the iconic late-night show in Spring 2014. NBC also announced today that Jimmy Fallon, now host of NBC's "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon," will transition into new hosting duties on "The Tonight Show" franchise after Leno concludes his successful run.

By Jamie Ruby

NBC's new series Hannibal premieres tomorrow night. The story follows Hannibal Lector (Mads Mikkelsen) in his early years, when he was known as a brilliant psychiatrist working for the FBI. He works to help criminal profiler Will Graham, played by Hugh Dancy, as he often steps too far into the minds of serial killers, not knowing he is working with one.

In preparation for the premiere, executive producer and writer, Bryan Fuller, and star, Hugh Dancy, talked to the digital media about what's to come on the series.

Fuller talked to SciFi Vision about their approach to taking the series beyond a crime procedural. "Our approach was, how can we tell a slightly more heightened quality of serial killer tale each week to honor the style and the genre that Thomas Harris has really kind of created in and of himself, which you look at Francis Dolarhyde in Red Dragon who is a man who is looking to evolve outside of like the simplicity of his life that was corrupted by various abuses to a God-like being that existed inside of him.

"Or, Buffalo Bill who was a man who was looking to transform into a woman and the horrible deeds that he did to craft the human suit out of real live females.

"There is a sort of purple operatic quality to those style of murders that we tried to respect and kind of give more than a crime procedural that is so completely grounded in reality and actually...gives you something a little more grand than what you would see on other crime procedural shows."