You’re going to have to attend even longer to seek out out if Carrie Mathison can hold it collectively by way of Homeland’s closing act. After beforehand delaying the CIA drama’s eighth and closing season to fall 2019, Showtime has now pushed the premiere even farther into our collective futures—early 2020.
Showtime confirmed as a lot throughout its Tv Critics Affiliation press tour panel, itemizing Sunday, February 9 of 2020 as the brand new bow for Homeland’s twelve-episode swan track. The seventh season wrapped in April 2018, inserting virtually a full two years between seasons. Showtime beforehand cited “[international] manufacturing calls for” for the delay. If nothing else, an prolonged Season eight synopsis ought to assist tide over followers.
“The ultimate season of Homeland finds Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) recovering from months of brutal confinement in a Russian gulag,” a press launch famous. “Her physique is therapeutic, however her reminiscence stays fractured — which is an issue for Saul (Mandy Patinkin), now Nationwide Safety Advisor to the newly ascendant President Warner (Emmy and Golden Globe winner Beau Bridges). The highest precedence of Warner’s younger administration is an finish to the ‘perpetually warfare’ in Afghanistan, and Saul has been dispatched to interact the Taliban in peace negotiations. However Kabul teems with warlords and mercenaries, zealots and spies — and Saul wants the relationships and experience that solely his protégé can present. In opposition to medical recommendation, Saul asks Carrie to stroll with him into the lion’s den — one final time.”
Different supporting forged for the eighth and closing 12 months consists of Maury Sterling, Linus Roache, Costa Ronin, Nimrat Kaur and Numan Acar. Not solely that, however Danes will get some assist from her personal homefront, as husband Hugh Dancy joins the collection as John Zabel—described by TVLine as “a savvy Washington advisor who joins the White Home as a brand new overseas coverage advisor to the President — and a formidable opponent to Saul.”
Showtime at the very least plans to make your subscription worthwhile by way of 2020. The cabler additionally introduced throughout its presentation that Shameless will return for its post-Emmy Rossum tenth season on November three alongside Jim Carrey’s Kidding, with Ray Donovan Season 7 arriving November 17. The L Phrase sequel collection Era Q will even arrive on December eight.