Homeland Season 5 Premiere Date Set In September? Show Confirmed To Film In Germany!

Homeland season 5 could premiere late September or early October 2015, according to IB Times.

The Showtime series is set to begin filming in May, and already, rumors are swirling about what the new season will bring for Claire Danes' character Carrie Mathison.

When the show ended in season 4, the CIA team with Carrie returned to the United States after the embassy was shown to be attacked in Islamabad, Pakistan.

In an interview with Variety, the president of Showtime explained why they chose that storyline for the last episode of season 4.

"I think a show with this amount of political and narrative complexity can do a last episode that has a change of pace," David Nevins said. "I thought they needed to do an episode back in Washington, and needed to deal with Carrie's family situation and her issues with motherhood."

As for the upcoming season 5 of Homeland, thing could very well be different for Carrie and the rest of the CIA, making the show interesting, according to fans. 

The network has released a statement that the show will be going to Germany for season 5 of their espionage drama. In fact, "Homeland" is set to become the very first American series that will shoot its entire season in Germany. According to the report, season 5 will be filmed in Studio Babelsberg in Berlin.

As for the plot of "Homeland" season 5, the show will pick up two years after Carrie's time as CIA Station Chief in Pakistan.

Struggling to reconcile her guilt and disillusionment with years of working on the front lines in the "war on terror," Carrie finds herself in a self-imposed exile in Berlin, estranged from the CIA and working for a private security firm," according to a write-up on Deadline.

This is a new direction that the show is taking after an earlier report quoted Showtime president David Nevins saying that the series will not shy away from controversial issues that revolved around US relations with the Middle East.

"I hope [the attacks are] not considered at all," Nevins said referring to recent terror attacks "I really, really don't want there to be any limitations."

"I don't expect there will be," the network chief continued. " They never shied away from anything difficult. I want them to go right into the teeth of it again."