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"Homeland" is heading for Europe for production of its upcoming fifth season. Showtime and Fox 21 Television Studios have confirmed that the show's new installment will be filmed at Studio Babelsberg in Berlin, marking the first American television series to ever shoot a full season entirely in Germany.

The fifth 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.

The 12-episode new season will premiere this fall.

Asked at the PaleyFest in Los Angeles last March if "Homeland" would tackle ISIS, executive producer Alex Gansa responded, "We're one of the few shows that gets to really comment on current events. We take that responsibility very seriously."

He further explained, "It's very difficult to do because what they are doing on the ground feels so medieval and so horrible that you give them a platform on television I'm a little wary of; to try to make what they are talking about understandable or relatable is very difficult."