Showtime’s shifting their schedule around and, unfortunately, viewers won’t be able to catch up with Homeland until January 2017. The series has been moved from its fall spot to a winter premiere, but the network didn’t provide details behind the decision to delay the show’s sixth season. However, Showtime did confirm that season six will begin shooting this summer and that the story will be set in the U.S., with filming taking place in New York. Seasons four and five were shot in South Africa and Berlin.
Confirmed returning cast members include Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison, F. Murray Abraham as Dar Adal, and Mandy Patinkin as Saul Berenson. Showtime also lists Emmy nominee Rupert Friend as on board for season six, reprising his role as Peter Quinn who you’ll remember was left near dead at the end of season five.
“We are proud that Homeland has been so consistently recognized for its excellence with awards and critical acclaim, but we are in awe of how the series fearlessly mines the geopolitics of our complicated world and translates that into compelling human drama,” said David Nevins, President and CEO, Showtime Networks Inc. “Under Alex Gansa’s brilliant leadership, Homeland has shown an uncanny ability to reinvent itself which makes us supremely confident that this show will remain as distinctive, relevant and cutting edge as anything on television for as long as these producers want to continue.”
The Homeland Season Six Plot: After she thwarted a terrorist attack in Berlin, season six picks up several months later and finds Carrie Mathison (Danes) back on American soil, living in Brooklyn, NY. She has begun working at a foundation whose efforts are to provide aid to Muslims living in the United States. Season six will tackle the after effects of the U.S. presidential election, with the entire season taking place between election day and the inauguration. It’s a strange, transitional time in the halls of government filled with anxiety and different competing interests, where a very fragile and complex transfer of power takes place between the outgoing president and the incoming president-elect.
