Watch the HOMELAND Season 3 Premiere, Now Available On Multiple Platforms For Free

Following last night’s highly anticipated season three premiere of the Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning drama HOMELAND, Showtime is giving viewers nationwide an opportunity to sample the first episode of the series across multiple platforms now. The season three premiere episode can be seen on the Showtime website, on YouTube, via select television providers' free On Demand channels and websites, on Showtime On Demand and Showtime Anytime. The season three premiere is also available on Showtime apps on iPhone, iPod Touch, Android smartphones and tablets, Nook and Kindle Fire tablets, and for download as a free video podcast on iTunes. HOMELAND stars Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Claire Danes, Emmy winner Damian Lewis, and Emmy and Tony Award winner Mandy Patinkin, and airs Sundays at 9 p.m. ET/PT only on Showtime.

You can also watch the premiere below:



The was the highest-rated season premiere yet with 1.9 million viewers on Sunday night at 9 p.m. and 2.61 million viewers for the night:
· Besting its season two debut by nine percent (vs. 1.7 million) and 26 percent (vs. 2.07 million) respectively.
· The network's top-rated and also most time-shifted series, HOMELAND attracts the most DVR+7 and On Demand viewing per week of any Showtime original series (69 percent delayed viewing).
· Season two averaged 6.25 million weekly viewers.

HOMELAND tells the story of Carrie Mathison (Danes), a CIA officer battling her own demons, who becomes convinced that the intelligence that led to the rescue of U.S. soldier, then Congressman, now fugitive, Nicholas Brody (Lewis) was a setup and may be connected to an Al Qaeda plot to be carried out on American soil. Season three opens during the aftermath of the horrific terror attack that decimated the U.S. intelligence apparatus, and prompted a global manhunt for the world's Most Wanted terrorist, Nicholas Brody. As Carrie and Saul (Patinkin) begin to pick up the pieces of their shattered professional and personal lives, they are swept up in the political and media firestorm surrounding the terror attack and the subsequent search for Brody's whereabouts. Developed for American television by Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon, and based on the original Israeli series "Prisoners of War" by Gideon Raff, the series also stars Morena Baccarin, Rupert Friend, Sarita Choudhoury, Tracy Letts, Jackson Pace, Morgan Saylor and F. Murray Abraham. Tied as the network's No. 1 rated series, HOMELAND had a record-breaking sophomore season with unprecedented growth, watched by 6.2 million weekly viewers across platforms, up 43 percent versus its freshman season. Along with Gansa and Gordon, the executive producers for season three are Gideon Raff, Chip Johannessen, Alexander Cary, Henry Bromell, AviNir and Ran Telem. The series is produced by FOX 21.

Meanwhile, the new Showtime drama series MASTERS OF SEX debuted to one million viewers at 10 p.m. and 1.4 million viewers for the night, tying the HOMELAND season one premiere.

Over one million viewers and counting have sampled the MASTERS OF SEX premiere, which was offered two weeks prior to its premiere across multiple platforms. Online viewing data will be available in the upcoming weeks.