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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…

Busy times are afoot for Dan Fogelman—well, busier than usual. Preparing to launch the highly anticipated third season of his NBC family drama This is Us in a matter of weeks, the series creator is currently in Toronto on behalf of his second feature directorial outing, Amazon Studios’ Life Itself. Another emotional…

Alec Baldwin, Judith Light, Mandy Patinkin and Mike Colter are shooting the indie film Stupid Happy in New York. The film is being directed by Hannah Pearl Utt, who wrote the script with Jen Tullock. Utt and Tullock are part of the ensemble along with Oona Yaffe and Tim Daly. After their playwright father's death…

The first full trailer for the Dan Fogelman-directed Life Itself has dropped its first full trailer and it will more than likely have you all up in your feelings. Fogelman is best known for the tearjerking hit NBC series This Is Us so it only makes sense that he would translate that on to the big screen with the Amazon…

Mandy Patinkin is truly a star, as they say in showbiz, of stage, screen and television, having won multiple Tony nominations and a win as Che Guevara for Evita, as well as a Golden Globe nod for Best Actor Comedy or Musical opposite Barbra Streisand in Yentl. On television, he has received no less than seven Emmy…

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…

Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, a musical whose history is nearly as complicated as the Russian novel that inspired it, will close after the matinée performance on September 3rd at Broadway’s Imperial Theatre. It will have played 32 previews and 336 regular performances. The announcement from Matt Ross, a…

Broadway receipts were up slightly last week even as an old lesson held true: A hit that doesn’t hitch its wagon to a star is a better long-term bet than a star-driven vehicle. That was certainly the case for a couple of newsworthy shows, notably Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, which continued to slip…

UPDATED, 5:50 AM: The producers of The Great Comet have released the following statement: "As part of our sincere efforts to keep Comet running for the benefit of its cast, creative team, crew, investors and everyone else involved, we arranged for Mandy Patinkin to play Pierre. However, we had the wrong impression of…

Mandy Patinkin, best known to television audiences as Saul Berenson on Homeland, will take a three-week side trip to Broadway via 19th-century Moscow beginning August 15. He’ll play the male title role in Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 through September 3 at the Imperial Theatre. Originated on Broadway by…