Homeland is ending after 8 seasons

Claire Danes. — (Image credit: Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Homeland's eighth season will be its last.

Showtime President and CEO David Nevins made the announcement on Monday. Gary Levine, Showtime's programming president, said the drama is "not limping into the sunset. Last season was one of its best ever." Star Claire Danes told Howard Stern in April that the show was going to be ending soon, and she felt "really conflicted about it," although she's "ready for a reprieve" due to her character, Carrie Mathison, being "a lot."

Homeland's final season will premiere in June 2019.

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.