Season 6 of the hit Showtime series "Homeland" is confirmed to take place in New York.

Entertainment Weekly reports that Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) and company will return to the U.S., with the season primarily set in New York.

"Homeland will be shot next year in New York City, in and around New York," said Showtime's David Nevins during the Television Critics Association's press tour in Pasadena, California on Tuesday. "It will be set domestically. It will be set primarily in the New York area, but not exclusively."

Recent seasons have taken place in the Midwest and Europe, with Season 5 making history as the first American program to film an entire season in Berlin, Germany. However, Nevins said the show's creative team had a major interest in doing a domestic story, and the actors were enthusiastic at the prospect of returning home.

Nevins hinted that many of the upcoming season's themes might revolve around current U.S. events and controversies, such as the presidential election and concerns over Muslim immigration.

When it came to one of the biggest questions about the new season -- whether Peter Quinn (Rupert Friend) will live on or not -- Nevins didn't give a definite answer.

"It's a show that, more than those other shows, attempts to live in the real world," the showrunner said. "With 'Homeland,' it's not about playing games, it's not a supernatural show, there will be no supernatural solution -- if he should live."

But network programming president Gary Levine shed some light on the character's future as well.

"Quinn is severely damaged. There is no question about that," Levine explained to the crowd at the TCA. "So the life-or-death question remains, but it will not be -- if he should live, it will not be in any way, shape, or form the way he has lived to date."

While "Homeland" may no longer garner the same attention it did in its earlier seasons, the show still enjoys an avid following. Levine praised the writers for keeping the series fresh.

"We are in awe of how (showrunner) Alex Gansa and his writing staff reinvent Homeland each year," Levine said, according to Vanity Fair. "And I think it's exciting to see what they're going to do in bringing it back to the United States and reinvent it yet again."

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