Showtime’s new dramatic series, Homeland, has been picked up for a second season, as announced today by the network. The series is Showtime’s highest-rated freshman drama series to date, so picking it up for the second season obviously wasn’t a difficult decision.
Homeland is based on the Israeli series Prisoners of War and was developed for American TV by executive producers Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa. Production on the 12 new episodes for season 2, starring Claire Danes, Damian Lewis and Mandy Patinkin, will begin in 2012.
David Nevins, President of Entertainment, Showtime Networks Inc, made the announcement, stating, “Homeland is just getting started. Clearly, the overall audience growth from week one to week four demonstrates that this show is hitting a nerve in the cultural zeitgeist. Alex and Howard have created a psychological thriller that holds special relevance in the post 9/11 world. I’m quite confident that its passionate audience will be riveted as the season unfolds and people discover where this story is going.”
The series had 4.4 million viewers across all platforms in its first week.
The Plot:
Homeland is a one-hour drama series that tells the story of Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes), a CIA officer battling her own demons, who becomes convinced that the intelligence that led to the rescue of Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis), a U.S. soldier who had been missing and presumed dead for eight years, was a setup and may be connected to an Al Qaeda plot to be carried out on American soil.
Source: Showtime – October 26, 2011
