--- title: Homeland Goes to Germany for Season 5 description: Showtime says Carrie will leave the Middle East behind... and the CIA canonical: https://time.com/3837042/homeland-germany-season-5/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-27T17:58:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T06:42:56.586Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: 'Homeland' Goes to Germany for Season 5 og:description: Carrie will leave the Middle East behind... and the CIA og:url: https://time.com/3837042/homeland-germany-season-5/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2420a7a41adbc178/6987ed0d0b72e3a06f6e1bdb/screen-shot-2015-04-27-at-1-52-40-pm.png?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison in Showtime's "Homeland." og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'Homeland' Goes to Germany for Season 5 twitter:description: Carrie will leave the Middle East behind... and the CIA twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2420a7a41adbc178/6987ed0d0b72e3a06f6e1bdb/screen-shot-2015-04-27-at-1-52-40-pm.png?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _Homeland_ Goes to Germany for Season 5 by [James Hibberd / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## James Hibberd / Entertainment Weekly Apr 27, 2015 5:58 PM UTC  Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison in Showtime's "Homeland." Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison in Showtime's "Homeland."Showtime by [James Hibberd / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## James Hibberd / Entertainment Weekly Apr 27, 2015 5:58 PM UTC It’s official: _Homeland_ is pulling out of the Middle East. Showtime announced Monday that its acclaimed espionage drama is going to Germany for season 5\. According to the network, _Homeland_ will become the first American television series to ever to shoot a full season entirely in Germany. The new season will be filmed at Studio Babelsberg in Berlin. We’re told the new season will pick-up two years after Carrie Mathison’s (Claire Danes) ill-fated tenure as Islamabad station chief. “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. Last season Showtime found [itself under fire for some](http://www.ew.com/article/2014/12/29/homeland-israel-pakistan) of its Middle East-set storylines. The 12-episode new season will premiere this fall. _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/04/27/homeland-going-germany-season-5) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com)_._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3837042/homeland-germany-season-5/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3837042/homeland-germany-season-5/"},"headline":"Homeland Goes to Germany for Season 5","datePublished":"2015-04-27T17:58:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T06:42:56.586Z","description":"Showtime says Carrie will leave the Middle East behind... and the CIA","url":"https://time.com/3837042/homeland-germany-season-5/","keywords":["Television","Homeland"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2420a7a41adbc178/6987ed0d0b72e3a06f6e1bdb/screen-shot-2015-04-27-at-1-52-40-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"James Hibberd / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2420a7a41adbc178/6987ed0d0b72e3a06f6e1bdb/screen-shot-2015-04-27-at-1-52-40-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison in Showtime's \"Homeland.\"","caption":"Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison in Showtime's \"Homeland.\"","creditText":"Showtime","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3837042/homeland-germany-season-5/","name":"Homeland Goes to Germany for Season 5"}}]}] ```