Posted on 08/07/2018 7:47:37 AM PDT by EdnaMode
You've heard it from the showrunner. You've heard it from the star. And now you've heard it from the head of the network: Homeland is indeed ending with its upcoming eighth season.
Showtime Networks CEO David Nevins on Monday confirmed the long-speculated news at the Television Critics Association's summer press tour. "I do not want to hear the word 'cancellation,'" Nevins clarified. "[Co-creator and showrunner] Alex Gansa will bring the show to its proper conclusion.
Nevins had been previously shy to call it quits on the pay cabler's No. 1 drama, even though Gansa has been implying season eight would be the end since the Emmy-winning drama scored a three-season renewal back in 2016.
"It's definitely going to be my last year," Gansa told The Hollywood Reporter earlier this year. "I can't speak for [stars] Claire [Danes] or Mandy [Patinkin], but it will be my final year and it will be designed to be the end of an eight-season story. If Showtime, Fox, Claire and Mandy want to take the show further, that's their decision, and we would leave some room for that to happen — if there's an appetite."
Danes said she would be getting off of the Homeland train a few months later.
The possibility certainly seems to exist for more in the Homeland arena, not unlike the continued lifespan for fellow 20th Century Fox TV terrorism drama 24, but any sort of franchise continuation would be a ways off.
The eighth and final season of Homeland is expect to air on Showtime in the first quarter of 2019.
I only watch the entire first season. To many other good shows took my interest away. Plus I think they put to much time between seasons.
I’m glad. Jumped the shark a few years ago. Claire Danes and Mandy Patinkin are tedious, one note actors. It became unwatchable after Damian Lewis and Rupert Friend left the show AND then they mocked up an Alex Jones character.
The show has generally been pretty good, though I wasn’t crazy about the last season. Their Hillary Clinton clone (pantsuit-wearing liberal Democrat, former NY senator) was truly the leftist establishment’s fantasy version of HRC (a tough, take-no-prisoners woman of integrity, conveniently free of a sleazy husband or bogus charitable foundation). And of course their Hillary ultimately triumphs over Russian meddling.
Yes, they were pretty brutal with the ‘Brett O’Keefe’ character, casting him as the ultimate phony incapable of even handing the most basic firearm.
This show has been so hit or miss. There were two or three seasons that I liked. There were others that I stopped watching because the liberal propaganda became overbearing (there is always liberal propaganda but I was able to tolerate it when the plots and acting were good). The last season went off the rails. Its a shame because it could have been good.
Never seen it. I won’t pay for HBO and HBO series never seem to make it to Netflicks. They also overprice buying the entire season in the Apple store for all their series. I bought Game of Thrones but that’s to only one I’m going to buy.
Homeland does reveal the nature of the snakes inside the Deep State.
Try to kill each other , then partner up to take down another one.
Just like our politicians....
I’m glad. Jumped the shark a few years ago. Claire Danes and Mandy Patinkin are tedious, one note actors. It became unwatchable after Damian Lewis and Rupert Friend left the show AND then they mocked up an Alex Jones character.
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I agree, somewhat.
The last season seemed too haphazardly contrived, even for Homeland. I still watched it as was moderately interested in each new episode.
Previous seasons they seemed to be on the leading edge of geopolitical/intelligence social issues (at least for a television series), such as tackling the use of drones or terror cells in Germany. But the last few seasons seemed far to excited about Hilary becoming POTUS and attempting to forecast social issues surrounding her, which backfired for obvious reasons.
I’ll still watch it though.
It was good for the first 4 seasons, the 5th season was just ok. Downhill from there transforming into a PC drama.
Stopped watching early in Season One. It was pro- Muslim anti-American propaganda.
Oddly, they didn't put any of the many other photos they took of the car and her in the edition, only this cover shot, where all you see is some of the interior. It was shot at the Goodfellas Diner in Maspeth Queens. It was the location for the scene in GFs where DeNiro knocks over the phonebooth after learning Tommy was "whacked". The bottom pic I found sometime later online. It wasn't in the magazine. It was their UK edition for that month/year.
The Russians will be the terrorists next season.
Never watched the show.
Well, except for the episode with Melissa Benoist / Supergirl.
Was it any good to binge on?
When they killed off Rupert Friend’s character, Peter Quinn, I quit watching. He was the best thing about the show. And I was less interested in the show after they turned him crazy after the chemical attack.
I think its better once a week than binged. It can be a bit slow.
I’ll be the final season puts everything into proper perspective, How the Muslims should take over the world, that Whitey is the real terrorist, and that America is a disaster because of the President tweets.
My wife and I have Amazon Prime. Homeland is on there now. We stopped watching Homeland sometime ago and we’re bringing the DVD home from library. Once I realize they switched over and started blaming the US for everything and then the Muslims became the good guys and the Americans became the bad guys we quit watching. Does anybody remember when that was and am I on target with that assessment or did he improve somehow? I don’t remember how many seasons we watched but I think it ended with eight.
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