Last month, executive producer Alex Gansa stated that ‘Homeland’ will be heading to Europe for the filming of its fifth season. Now, Showtime and Fox 21 TV Studios are making it official as ‘Homeland’ Season 5 will finally begin its production at Berlin’s Studio Babelsberg.
As the cast and crew will set out for Germany this June, the political drama becomes the first American TV series to film an entire season in the said country, as pointed out by Showtime.
Comprised of 12 episodes, the fifth season of ‘Homeland’ will make its way to TV screens this fall.
This time, the story will continue on two years following the unfortunate events that happened as Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) worked as Islamabad station chief. As she struggles with guilt and disappointment after years of service and involvement in the “war on terror”, Carrie settles on a job at a private security firm in Berlin while separated from the CIA.
Drawn out from the Israeli series ‘Prisoners of War’ that was created by Gideon Raff, ‘Homeland’ was developed for American TV by Gansa and Howard Gordon.
Aside from Raff, Gansa and Gordon, Alexander Cary, Chip Johannessen, Meredith Stiehm, Patrick Harbinson, Lesli Linka Glatter, Avi Nir and Ran Telem will be working as executive producers for the fifth season.
Besides the main plot, there have been scarce details about possible happenings in season five. Gansa did mention the importance of shooting the series in Europe, particularly when it comes to dealing with terrorism.
The New York Post reported disapproval from Pakistani officials in terms of how their country had portrayed and represented in the depiction of Islamabad in season four, possibly resulting to the change of location for the upcoming season.
During the Q&A session at last month’s PaleyFest in Hollywood, the show’s exeucitve producers discussed several possibilities for the fifth season.
Gansa, in particular, considered the question as to how the show has responded towards the violence attributed to Islamist terrorist groups, such as ISIS.
‘Homeland’ has already been acknowledged for highlighting events relating to terrorism and even for predicting the situations that could actually transpire in the international scene.
The Oscar-winning TV show has also demonstrated its efforts in portraying its antagonists as less ruthless individuals, shedding light on political events based on the perspectives of people who disagree with the actions and decisions of the U.S.
“Do we give them a platform?” Gansa said. “I don’t know. It’s an interesting question…We’re one of the few shows that gets to really comment on current events. We take that responsibility very seriously.”
