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Homeland - season 1

Started on Showtime on 2nd October. Great reviews and excellent ratings have seen it already receive a renewal for a second season.

Wikipedia, Official Site

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Originally Posted by Wikipedia

Homeland is an American psychological thriller television series developed by Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa, based on the Israeli series Hatufim (Prisoners of War) created by Gideon Raff. The series stars Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison, a CIA operations officer who has come to believe that an American Marine [Damian Lewis as Nicholas Brody], who was held captive by Al-Qaeda as a prisoner of war, was turned by the enemy and now poses a significant risk to national security.

Also stars Morena Baccarin (Firefly, Stargate SG-1, V), David Harewood, & Mandy Patinkin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_dxFmQF264

Developed by Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa (both of whom used to work on 24 and The X Files).

Re: Homeland - season 1

[First post copied from the US thread]

The critically acclaimed US drama series "Homeland" starts in the UK a week this Sunday:

9:30pm on Channel 4, Sunday 19th February

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/homeland

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeland_%28TV_series%29

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The series has received critical acclaim and won the 2011 Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Drama. Showtime has renewed the series for a second season of 12 episodes, with production scheduled to begin in spring 2012.[6]

Claire Danes also won a Golden Globe Award, for Best Actress in a Drama Series, while Damian Lewis was nominated for Best Actor in a Drama Series.

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Critical reception

The pilot episode received universal acclaim, scoring a Metacritic rating of 91 out of 100 from 28 critics.[29] Hank Stuever of The Washington Post gave the pilot episode an A-, saying "What makes Homeland rise above other post-9/11 dramas is Danes's stellar performance as Carrie—easily this season's strongest female character" and that "The latter half of the first episode is exhilarating. I'm hooked."[30] Matthew Gilbert of The Boston Globe said it was his favorite drama pilot of the season, giving it an A.[31] Entertainment Weekly's Ken Tucker gave it an A-, stating "It's the fall season's most intriguing, tense puzzler."[32] IGN TV gave it a positive review, saying that it was an "ace thriller" that also managed to have something to say about the War on Terror.[33]

TV Guide named it the best TV show of 2011[34] and highly applauded the performances by Damian Lewis and Claire Danes.[35]

Metacritic determined Homeland to be the second best TV show of 2011 according to major TV critics, by aggregating the critics' year-end top ten lists.[36]

The seventh episode, "The Weekend", received overwhelming critical acclaim and was described by both the creators of the show and Damian Lewis as a "watershed" episode.[37][38]

Re: Homeland - season 1

This starts tonight!

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Originally Posted by Matt D (Post 35379655)

9:30pm on Channel 4, Sunday 19th February

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/homeland