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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)…

Showtime has released the official trailer for the seventh season of its Emmy-winning drama series Homeland, which is currently filming in Richmond, Virginia. At the end of last season, following an assassination attempt on her life, President Keane (Elizabeth Marvel) broke her promise to Carrie (Claire Danes) by…

Amy Landecker has been cast in A Kid Like Jake, the indie drama that stars Jim Parsons and Claire Danes and is based on Daniel Pearle's Lincoln Center play. Landecker joins Octavia Spencer, Priyanka Chopra and Ann Dowd in the film adapted by Pearle and directed by Silas Howard. Filming is now underway in New York. The…

An awards magnet for Showtime over the course of its six seasons, Homeland has netted the premium cabler four Golden Globes and six Emmys, always with a finger on the pulse of current world events—a fact that the series’ stars, Claire Danes and Mandy Patinkin, don’t take for granted. In the midst of production on…

EXCLUSIVE: Octavia Spencer is set to join Jim Parsons and Claire Danes in the upcoming drama A Kid Like Jake, directed by Silas Howard. Priyanka Chopra, Ann Dowd and Michaela Watkins are in negotiations to join the film as well. Parsons, Todd Spiewak and Eric Norsoph will produce via their That's Wonderful Productions…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of tonight’s Season 6 finale of Homeland.  Homeland killed off one of its own tonight, a major character – and stop reading here if you don’t want to know more. While a death was expected on tonight’s episode, longtime watchers might have seen a target on F. Murray Abraham's…