How to watch Homeland: stream season 8 online from anywhere

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Once installed, select the location of your home country and simply click connect. You’ll then be able to easily watch Homeland season 8 from pretty much anywhere in the world.

While Homeland is produced by premium cable network Showtime, there are still a number of ways you can stream the show online in the US - including for free.

For starters, Sling TV is offering its new Premium Pass FREE for a whole month when you sign up (or have already signed up) for any of its three main packages. That includes Showtime, Starz and Epix - all of Homeland is available to watch on demand if you have this deal. 

Another great value streaming service is Hulu, which starts at just $5.99 a month, boasts a FREE 30-day trial period, and offers Showtime as a $10.99 per month add-on - complete with its own free trial. It's also got all four previous seasons of Billions available for on-demand streaming as well as offering season 5's episodes.

If you like what you see, you can take advantage of a combined Hulu, Disney+ and ESPN+ bundle for just $12.99 a month - though to be clear, you'll still need to add Showtime as an extra. The same is true of Sling TV, where Showtime is available as an add-on for $10 a month.

You can also get Showtime via Amazon Prime Video, and the channel even offers its own standalone streaming service that costs just $10.99 a month and is completely contract-free - try it for free to see if it's right for you. Time it right and you'll be able to watch Homeland for free online, albeit only for the 7-day trial period.

Also, don't forget that as per our guide above, if you find yourself out of the country, you can use clever software like ExpressVPN to watch Homeland just as if you were...err, at home?

The bad news for Homeland fans in the UK is that new season 8 episodes are aired a week behind the US. But the glass quickly becomes half-full, because it's shown on Channel 4 each week on Sunday nights at 9pm GMT (or 10pm on Channel 4 +1). That's exciting because C4 is a free-to-air channel in the UK, provided you've got a valid TV license.

And it also means you can make use of the network's excellent All 4 streaming service, which will let you watch Homeland for free on iOS and Android gadgets, PCs, Macs, consoles, set-top boxes and a whole lot more - apps are available for most modern devices.

If you're a UK resident outside of the country for whatever reason, remember that you can always grab a VPN to keep up with the latest episodes of your favourite shows from abroad.

Folks in Australia can count themselves lucky, as new episodes of Homeland season 8 were shown every week on free-to-air SBS Viceland at the same pace as in the US.  

This means that Aussie viewers can make use of the free SBS On Demand streaming service to catch Homeland on a wide range of devices.

If this is how you would normally watch Homeland online in Australia but are out of the country for whatever reason, remember that you can use a VPN to point yourself back Down Under stream all your favorite shows just like you normally would.

You can watch Homeland season 8 episodes in Canada on Crave, which aired them in sync with Showtime in the US every Sunday night - so the show has finished here. 

Crave Iis available as an add-on VOD service from most major Canadian TV providers and also on a standalone basis for cord-cutters - here's how to sign-up for Crave and explore the various options.