Multiple Emmy Award winner Homeland starring Claire Danes and Damian Lewis, has been renewed for a third season. According to Variety, Showtime's ordered 12 more episodes for fall 2013 with production starting in spring.
David Nevins, president of Showtime said that "The Emmy wins for 'Homeland' have certainly set the stage for a great second season. We can't wait for our viewers to experience what unfolds through the rest of season two."
Homeland also stars Morena Baccarin, David Harewood, Diego Klattenhoff, Jackson Pace, Morgan Saylor, Mandy Patinkin, Jamey Sheridan, Navid Negahban and David Marciano.
About the show:
Hero or traitor? M.I.A. in Afghanistan for eight years and subjected to unthinkable torture at the hands of al-Qaeda, Marine Sgt. Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis) is finally coming home. CIA officer Carrie Mathison (Emmy® winner Claire Danes) believes he has been turned and become part of a plot to be carried out on American soil. But the volatile Carrie has some demons of her own. Nothing is as it seems in Homeland.