By Rick Gables
Showtime will premiere the final season of its Emmy® and Golden Globe® winning hit drama Homeland on Sunday, Feb. 9, at 9 p.m. ET/PT. Starring Emmy, Screen Actors Guild® and Golden Globe winner Claire Danes and Emmy and Tony® winner Mandy Patinkin, this season finds Carrie Mathison (Danes) recovering from months of brutal confinement in a Russian gulag. Her body is healing, but her memory remains fractured, which is a problem for Saul (Patinkin), now National Security Advisor to the newly ascendant President Warner (Emmy and Golden Globe winner Beau Bridges). The top priority of Warner’s young administration is an end to the “forever war” in Afghanistan, and Saul has been dispatched to engage the Taliban in peace negotiations. But Kabul teems with warlords and mercenaries, zealots and spies and Saul needs the relationships and expertise that only his protégé can provide. Against medical advice, Saul asks Carrie to walk with him into the lion’s den one last time. The final season stars Maury Sterling, Linus Roache and Costa Ronin, with Nimrat Kaur and Numan Acar also returning from season four in series regular roles.
Award-winning British car aficionado, presenter and host, Richard Hammond, is steering his way over to Science Channel for an epic new 9-part series, Richard Hammond’s BIG, premiering Wednesday, Feb. 12, at 10 p.m. ET/PT. Buckle up as Hammond once again takes viewers on the ride of their lives to spotlight engineering at its finest with the biggest structures in the world. With decades’ worth of knowledge in all things motor, science, adrenaline, engineering and more, Hammond embarks on a global adventure, from the UK to the USA and beyond, to explore the planet’s biggest structures and machines and the incredible ways engineers have supersized our world.
The action-packed CINEMAX drama series Strike Back will return for its seventh and final season on Friday, Feb. 14, at 10 p.m. ET/PT. Starring Warren Brown, Daniel MacPherson, Alin Sumarwata, Jamie Bamber, Varada Sethu, Alec Secareanu and Ivana Miličević, the series follows the explosive escapades of Section 20, an elite, multinational, covert special ops team, as it spans the globe fighting a vast web of interconnected criminal and terrorist activity.
