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Claire Danes is returning to TV.

Showtime has lured the Temple Grandin Emmy winner back to the tube (you remember she headlined that cult gem My So-Called Life, right?) and given her a starring role on a pilot called Homeland, a drama loosely based the Israeli television series Prisoners of War.

The show follows an American soldier taken prisoner during the invasion of Iraq in 2003 who, left for dead, manages to return stateside after years in captivity.

Danes would play a CIA officer (in counterterrorism, I presume) damaged by her own issues who becomes convinced that the intelligence that led to the soldier’s return was a setup and that this national hero may be connected to an Al Qaeda plot to be carried out on American soil.

Sounds twisty.

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