{"id":3203,"date":"2013-07-29T22:24:12","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T02:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=3203"},"modified":"2013-07-29T22:24:12","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T02:24:12","slug":"tca-wheres-damian-lewis-homeland-showrunners-explain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/07\/29\/tca-wheres-damian-lewis-homeland-showrunners-explain\/","title":{"rendered":"TCA: Where\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Damian Lewis? \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcHomeland\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Showrunners Explain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Ray Richmond<\/strong> contributes to Deadline\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s TCA coverage.<\/em><br \/>\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-552099\" href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2013\/07\/tca-wheres-damian-lewis-homeland-showrunners-explain\/homeland1\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"homeland1\" height=\"189\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www-deadline-com.vimg.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/homeland1__130730012759-275x189.jpg?resize=275%2C189\"><\/a>A little bit of a <strong><span>SPOILER ALERT<\/span><\/strong> is perhaps in order regarding the first\u00c2\u00a0two episodes of season three of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/tag\/showtime\/\">Showtime<\/a> drama hit <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/tag\/homeland\/\">Homeland<\/a><\/em>, which\u00c2\u00a0returns in originals on September 29. It isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t about the plotline per se.\u00c2\u00a0It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about star <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/tag\/damian-lewis\/\">Damian Lewis<\/a>, who won an Emmy in 2012 and is nominated\u00c2\u00a0again for his wrenching performance as Brody. It was revealed this\u00c2\u00a0afternoon during a TCA <em>Homeland<\/em> panel that Lewis won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be seen in the\u00c2\u00a0first two episodes of the season, screeners of which were provided for\u00c2\u00a0critics. It baffled those in the room, and is probably unprecedented,\u00c2\u00a0that an actor who won the Emmy for lead actor in the drama should\u00c2\u00a0simply not appear in the first pair of episodes of the subsequent\u00c2\u00a0season. Co-showrunner Alex Gansa explained that the Brody disappearance\u00c2\u00a0is strictly a function of the<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-552102\" href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2013\/07\/tca-wheres-damian-lewis-homeland-showrunners-explain\/tca1__130610173119-29\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"tca1__130610173119\" height=\"152\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www-deadline-com.vimg.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tca1__130610173119__130730012923.png?resize=160%2C152\"><\/a> story and shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be interpreted as\u00c2\u00a0indicative of the actor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s participation in the show beyond episode\u00c2\u00a0two. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about where the story was taking us,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Gansa said. He was\u00c2\u00a0then asked by a critic if it would be a betrayal of those involved in the\u00c2\u00a0series were those in the room to report that Lewis is a no-show through\u00c2\u00a0at least those first two hours of the season. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153No,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Gansa replied, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153but\u00c2\u00a0it would be a betrayal to actually say when he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s back in the show.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0Homeland won six Emmys in its &#8230; <span><a title=\"Continue reading this entry\" href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2013\/07\/tca-wheres-damian-lewis-homeland-showrunners-explain\/#more-552096\">Read More \u00c2\u00bb<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>via Deadline.com http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2013\/07\/tca-wheres-damian-lewis-homeland-showrunners-explain\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ray Richmond contributes to Deadline\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s TCA coverage. A little bit of a SPOILER ALERT is perhaps in order regarding the first\u00c2\u00a0two episodes of season three of the Showtime drama hit Homeland, which\u00c2\u00a0returns in originals on September 29. It isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t about the plotline per se.\u00c2\u00a0It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about star Damian Lewis, who won an Emmy in 2012 and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/07\/29\/tca-wheres-damian-lewis-homeland-showrunners-explain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;TCA: Where\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Damian Lewis? \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcHomeland\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Showrunners Explain&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1031,6,1032,1033],"class_list":["post-3203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-feedly","tag-ifttt","tag-recently-read","tag-saved-for-later"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-PF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}