"Homeland" Season 4 Gets 2-Hour Premiere

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"Homeland" Season 4 Gets Two-Hour Premiere; "The Affair" to Come Sooner
by Matt Webb Mitovich
August 11, 2014


Showtime has decided to bring "Homeland" back with a double-episode salvo.

The first two episodes of Season 4 — which is being filmed entirely on location in South Africa, and finds Carrie Mathison assigned to one of the most volatile and dangerous CIA stations in the Middle East — will air back-to-back on Sunday, Oct. 5, starting at 9/8c.





Hoping to have amped up the "Homeland" buzz by that measure, Showtime has in turn moved up the series premiere for "The Affair" — a twisty relationship drama starring Dominic West, Ruth Wilson, Maura Tierney and Joshua Jackson — to Sunday, Oct. 12, at 10/9c.

“There is such strong anticipation for the start of Season 4 that we wanted to give Homeland fans an extra generous helping of Carrie and company,” said Showtime EVP Gary Levine said in a statement.

“Once we decided to premiere Homeland with a double episode, it made sense to use the momentum of that event to launch our newest series, The Affair, the very next week.”

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