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"Homeland&amp;#039;s writers have revealed that they had originally planned for Nicholas Brody to die in season two of the Showtime thriller. Speaking during a TV Academy panel on Tuesday (August 13), the drama&amp;#039;s creative team said that it was the network who urged them to change their plans to write Damian Lewis&amp;#039;s character out of the show.  It was the second time that Showtime had stepped in to prevent Brody&amp;#039;s demise, having initially dissuaded writers from killing off the character in season one.  Co-creator Howard Gordon said: &amp;quot;We had sketched out this plan in the early parts of season two, which called for Brody&amp;#039;s demise, which may have been premature, and they asked us to reconsider.&amp;quot; Gordon described Brody&amp;#039;s survival up to now as &amp;quot;the happy accident of having very good partners&amp;quot;, according to The Hollywood Reporter. &amp;quot;That guy is like a bad penny, he keeps turning up,&amp;quot; he added.  It was also revealed that in the first draft of the season two finale, which saw Brody escape across the border after a terrorist attack on CIA headquarters, he was joined on the run by Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes). Lewis has said that his character will be in a very dark place in the next season of the show. The first full trailer for the upcoming third run was released last week. The three-minute clip sees the CIA and Brody&amp;#039;s family dealing with the aftermath of last season&amp;#039;s finale. Watch the trailer for season three of Homeland below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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