Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison in Homeland season 4. Photo / Jim Fiscus
Homeland will not be featuring any stories based on Isis because its producers think the group is too barbaric and "evil" to appear on their show.
The Showtime series has dealt with terror cells and double agents across the world, but dramatising Isis and "Jihadi John" is not on the
agenda.
Executive producer Alex Gansa revealed that writers have been asked to steer clear of the subject matter as he cannot see any way of humanising their actions.
The next Homeland season will be filmed in Europe, most likely in Berlin, set about two years after the end of the last series.
Carrie Mathison will no longer be an intelligence officer. Asked about whether Isis plot lines would be considered, Gansa replied: "It's a very good question because Homeland for the last four seasons has tried to portray our adversaries and tried to humanise them ... There was a real effort to make their concerns and their lives understandable. That is very hard to do with Isis. 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. Maybe this is too soon ... ... I think the intelligence communities, the US Government doesn't really even know how to deal with them on the ground right now."
