Showtime has announced that the seventh season of the Emmy and Golden Globe winning hit dramaHomelandwill kick off on Sunday, February 11 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. Starring Emmy, Screen Actors Guild and Golden Globe winner Claire Danes and Emmy and Tony winner Mandy Patinkin, the cast of series regulars also includes returning actors Elizabeth Marvel, Linus Roache, Maury Sterling and Jake Weber, and joining the cast this season is acclaimed actor Morgan Spector (Boardwalk Empire). The network’s top-rated drama series,Homeland is currently filmingin Richmond, Virginia.
Homeland is an edge-of-your-seat sensation. CIA officerCarrie Mathison(Claire Danes) is tops in her field despite being bipolar, which makes her volatile and unpredictable. With the help of her long-time mentor Saul Berenson (Mandy Patinkin), Carrie fearlessly risks everything, including her personal well-being and even sanity, at every turn. You won’t be able to turn away from this gripping, emotional thriller in which nothing short of the fate of our nation is at stake. Season 6 took place between the U.S. presidential election, where the first female President of the United States is elected, Elizabeth Keane (Elizabeth Marvel), and the inauguration.
At the end of last season, following an assassination attempt on her life, President Keane (Marvel) broke her promise to Carrie (Danes) by arresting 200 members of the intelligence community without bringing charges against them, including Saul Berenson (Patinkin). As season seven begins, Carrie has left her job in the White House and moved back to D.C. and is living with her sister Maggie (Amy Hargreaves) to take on the Keane administration and secure the release of the 200. While no official end-game has been announced,Homelandexecutive producer Alex Gansa hinted thatHomeland could end after Season 8, which could be shot in Israel, bringing the show back full circle since it’s based on the Israeli seriesPrisoners of War.
Produced by Fox 21 Television Studios for Showtime,Homelandwas developed for American television by Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon, and is based on the original Israeli series Prisoners of War by Gideon Raff. Along with Gansa and Gordon, the executive producers for season seven will be Chip Johannessen, Lesli Linka Glatter, Patrick Harbinson, Claire Danes, Michael Klick, Ron Nyswaner, Gideon Raff, Avi Nir and Ran Telem. The series has been a globe-trotting affair, withHomeland Season 4shot in South Africa, Season 5 shot in Germany and Season 6 shot in New York City.
