‘Homeland’ Renewed for Season 8 at Showtime | TVLine 

for two additional seasons beyond the drama’s upcoming sixth season. The cabler confirmed the Season 7 and 8 pickup Thursday at the Television Critics Association summer press tour.

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Showtime president David Nevins foreshadowed the somewhat surprising multi-season renewal during a conference call with reporters back in June. “

is a show that is constantly reinventing itself… since it’s very much about this Intelligence world,” the exec said at the time. “More than most, this is a show that has an open-ended expiration date, just because of the subject matter.”

 begins production on Season 6, which will be set in New York City and chronicle the precarious two month period between Election Day and the swearing in of new POTUS Elizabeth Keane (

‘s Hill Harper recently joined the cast as Keane’s Chief of Staff, and 

‘s Patrick Sabongui is set to recur as a CUNY law professor who works with Carrie and is a fierce advocate for the Muslim American community.

When will this insanity end?!Keep squeezing,Showtime!

Really hope Homeland will end after eight seasons and if it does, it should match the total number of seasons alongside Game of Thrones (HBO).

Noooooooo please don’t mention Dexter. You’ll jinx Homeland

No Peter Quinn, then no me. It’s the only way I’ll survive 3 more seasons.

It’;s already been announced that Rupert Friend is a regular for season 6.

This is good news, but would be better IMO is if they could get Diego Klattenhoff back. His current show sucks (not his fault) so it would be awesome if he was able to go back to HL.

I think you will find many folks that will disagree with you about The Blacklist.

As I said with Ray Donovan being renewed earlier – Showtime – David Nevins did it again with renewing Homeland for Seasons 7 & 8. Can’t wait for Season 6 in January. Best network on TV.

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