MUMBAI: American cable and satellite television network Showtime has picked up the sixth season of Homeland as well as ordered the third season of The Affair.

The series will air every Sunday at 9 pm. With Homeland and The Affair, Showtime currently has the top two rated scripted series on premium television in the fourth quarter.

Homeland season five stars Claire Danes, Rupert Friend and Mandy Patinkin while The Affair season two stars Dominic West, Ruth Wilson, Maura Tierney and Joshua Jackson. 

As Homeland approaches its season five finale on 20 December, Carrie Mathison played by Claire Danes and Saul Berenson played by Mandy Patinkin race to stop a terrorist attack on Berlin, after Carrie and Astrid played by Nina Hoss finds Quinn penacted by Rupert Friend barely alive from being tortured by the terrorists planning the attack.

The Affair’s extended second season finale will run for 70 minutes on 20 December at 10 pm. The series explores the emotional and psychological effects of an affair that destroyed two marriages, and the crime that brings these individuals back together. The season will see the provocative drama being narrated separately from four different perspectives, revealing four distinct truths.