In what is not really a shock, it's been affirmed that Homeland Season 8 will be the last year of surveillance with Carrie, Saul, and the entire CIA group. Showtime president David Nevins affirmed it again at TCA, saying this was official maker Alex Gansa and Claire Danes' call, who said they unquestionably needed season 8 to be the end after Nevins asked "would you say you are certain?"

This was normal, as Claire Danes affirmed in spring 2018 the since quite a while ago reputed end with Homeland Season 8. While the series has been on an imaginative rise over the most recent couple of years, it was simply the show's star, Claire Danes, who affirmed that the series will see its last bend in season 8 amid an interview with Howard Stern. "Definitely that is it," Danes said when Stern inquired as to whether 2019 is truly to be the last represent the hardships of Carrie Mathison, the lady who has quit any pretense of everything for nation regardless of her bipolar issue.

Amid the last season of Homeland, Claire Danes' Carrie Mathison went from pursuing fear mongers to seeking after Russian covert operatives who were planning to destabilize the U.S. government. She may have counteracted their most exceedingly awful motivation, yet on the off chance that you've seen the latest season 7 finale, it came at a mind-boggling expense - like the appearing mental soundness of Carrie, who was left to decay in an unmedicated bipolar damnation by her Russian jailors. So what could be straightaway?

"It will be a short of breath, astounding, and moving ride to its decision." said Gary Levine, Showtime's Programming President at Winter TCA 2019.

Homeland Season 8 Release Date

Homeland used to pretty consistently arrive in the fall, but its last two seasons have arrived in January and February. At Winter TCA 2019, Showtime confirmed that Homeland season 8 will be pushed into the fall.

“We previously announced a June premiere but because of production demands of our international locations, we’re moving the final season premiere back to the fall,” said Gary Levine, co-president of entertainment at Showtime.

Homeland Season 8 Plot Details

While it is obviously very early regarding the direction of Homeland Seaosn 8, as it is the intended ending, showrunner Alex Gansa has nonetheless been teasing some major details. For starters, it will not be set in the actual homeland. While the series returned to U.S. shores for the past two seasons, Gansa told EW in April that the last hurrah will be set in Europe.

“[Season 7 arranges] all the pieces on the chessboard to make that a proper finale for the story we’ve been telling,” Gansa said. “We get to play this last season in D.C with the intention of taking us overseas for one last chapter. Season 8 will be overseas somewhere. We get to play a story with larger national stakes in season 7 and we’ll go back to a smaller intelligence-based season in 8.”

Homeland Season 8 Cast

Sam Trammell (The Order, True Blood) is set to recur in the eighth season of Homeland, reports THR. He will play Vice President Benjamin Hayes, described as “a political survivor with an aptitude for optics who crosses the aisle to serve alongside the series’ new president [the former vice president] played by Beau Bridges. Bridges’ character believes tapping Hayes is an innocuous choice, one that could help heal the partisan divide, but the politico proves to be more dangerous than anticipated.” The actor is, of course, best known for his series-spanning role on HBO's 2008-2014 series, True Blood, as shapeshifter/bar-owner Sam Merlotte.

Our first casting news for Homeland Season 8 revealed some familiar faces returning for season 8. As revealed via Deadline, Nimrat Kaur and Numan Acar are reprising their pivotal roles that had taken center stage during season 4, the year Carrie went to Pakistan. The two previously played Tasneem Qureshi and Haissam Haqqani, resptively. The former is a member of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence who had infiltrated the American embassy by turning the ambassador's feckless husband into an asset. The latter was a Taliban leader who, with information from Qureshi, staged a violent attack on the embassy.