'Homeland' Season 5 News, Update: Showtime Political Thriller Series Moving Out of the Middle East
Latest development reports for Showtime's hit political thriller TV series "Homeland" indicated that the cast and crew are going to Germany for its upcoming Season 5. The cable network announced the news earlier this week and added that its highly-acclaimed espionage drama will be the first American TV series to ever shoot the entirety of its season in Germany.
As detailed further, the new chapter of the Claire Danes-led show will be filmed at Studio Babelsberg in Berlin.
A report from Entertainment Weekly, meanwhile, cited their sources saying that Season 5 will pick-up "two years after Carrie Mathison's (Danes) ill-fated tenure as Islabamad station chief."
"Struggling to reconcile her guilt and disillusionment with years of working on the front lines in the 'war on terror,' Carrie finds herself in a self-imposed exile in Berlin, estranged from the CIA and working for a private security firm," the site wrote.
Showtime president David Nevins told the media earlier this year that they are now moving away from those Middle East-set storylines after the series sufferED criticisms from Pakistani and Israeli officials.
"We're not necessarily going to stay now and forever [focusing on] U.S. relations in the Muslim world," Nevins said. "It's a show ultimately about U.S. foreign policy, U.S. intelligence in the 21st century at a very difficult time. So we're exploring a few different possibilities and may change it up a little bit."
"Homeland" Season 5 will be comprised of 12 brand new episodes and is slated to premiere this fall.
