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Frank Dillane (Fear the Walking Dead, The Girlfriend Experience), Hayley Squires (Adult Material, I, Daniel Blake), Clémence Poésy (Tenet, Genius) and Jamael Westman (Anne Boleyn, Animals), are set as leads opposite Claire Danes and Tom Hiddleston in the Apple TV+ drama series The Essex Serpent, adapted from Sarah…

Coming off her Emmy-winning starring turn on Homeland, Claire Danes has signed on to headline The Essex Serpent for Apple TV+. She is replacing Keira Knightley who was originally cast last summer in in the period drama, an adaptation of Sarah Perry's novel. Knightley, who has two young children, pulled out of the…

Homeland came to a conclusion after eight seasons earlier this year, but director and executive producer Lesli Linka Glatter says Showtime’s Claire Danes-led, action-packed spy drama always found a way to live on the edge right up until the end. “It was always a new experience. You could never kind of lay back and…

Often prophetically ahead of real-life realpolitik, Showtime's Homeland came to a very insurgent end earlier this year after eight seasons. The series’ conclusion was both unconventional and satisfying, Emmy winner Claire Danes said during Deadline's Contenders Television virtual event. "There was something subversive…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight’s Homeland series finale.  Hurling a Molotov cocktail in its fiery closing minutes, Homeland came to the end of its eight-season run Sunday night and Showtime's multiple Emmy-winning spy thriller certainly ended with an unexpected bang. With the reappearance of…

Homeland‘s final season sort of goes back to the beginning –and also season 4– in regards to wrapping up the story of CIA operative Carrie Mathison. "Carrie steps into Brody's shoes," said EP Alex Gansa today in how that character was a suspect in season one when Carrie couldn’t figure if he was on her side or not…

“We are this close to oblivion.” We also are this close to the end of Showtime’s long-running, Emmy-winning spy drama Homeland, and now the premium cable has wired up the trailer for its eighth and final season. Claire Danes is back as Carrie Mathison, a role that won her back-to-back lead actress Emmys in 2012 and…

“Have you ever conspired with a foreign intelligence officer or service,” the very serious man asks Carrie Mathison. “Are you accusing me of something?” she spits back. Later in this first teaser for Season 8 of Homeland, we hear Carrie’s mentor/boss/foil Saul Berenson say ominously, “Everyone breaks under Russian…

After being praised by stars Claire Danes and Liev Screiber and AMC Networks boss Josh Sapan for being a steady hand at Showtime, David Nevins offered praise of his own to the power of television’s “oral culture.” The Center for Communication gave Nevins the Frank Stanton Award, adding his name to an honor roll over…

Claire Danes made it clear today that Homeland will end with Season 8. When Howard Stern noted in an interview with the actress on his Sirius XM show that the Showtime drama was ending after the upcoming eighth season, she responded, “yeah, that’s it.” Danes said she is “conflicted” about the long-running terrorism…

IFC Films has acquired A Kid Like Jake, the drama starring Claire Danes and Jim Parsons that just bowed at the Sundance Film Festival. Silas Howard directed, and Octavia Spencer and Priyanka Chopra co-star with Ann Dowd and Amy Landecker. A summer release is planned. The pic, written by Daniel Pearle who adapted his…

Adapted by Daniel Pearle from his own play, Silas Howard’s A Kid Like Jake was “intensely relatable” from the get-go for star Claire Danes. Starring Danes, Jim Parsons, The Shape of Water‘s Octavia Spencer and Priyanka Chopra—not to mention Ann Dowd, who has five films at Sundance—A Kid Like Jake follows Alex (Danes)…