Howard Gordon
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"Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series/Emmy for Outstanding Drama"

2006 24 (TV series)/24

2012 Homeland (TV series)/Homeland "Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series/Emmy for Outstanding Writing" 2012 Homeland (TV series)/Homeland: "Pilot (Homeland)/Pilot Episode" shared with Alex Gansa and Gideon Raff

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"Howard Gordon" (born March 31, 1961) is an American television writer and producer.

He is well known for his work on the Fox Broadcasting Network/Fox action series 24 (TV series)/24 alongside the Showtime (TV channel)/Showtime thriller Homeland (TV series)/Homeland, which he co-developed with Alex Gansa and Gideon Raff and the FX (TV channel)/FX political drama Tyrant (TV series)/Tyrant, which he co-developed with Craig Wright (playwright)/Craig Wright. He also produced the critically acclaimed but short lived NBC science fiction thriller Awake (TV series)/Awake.

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At this point, having done it for as long as we've done it, there's a certain amount of faith you have in the process that we're going to do it.

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I wish that were the case. It's not true. But I think on some unconscious level, maybe we know more than we think we know.

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We had kind of painted ourselves into a corner.

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Then the idea of this fake death came out very late in the game and we rewrote it.

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Sometimes bureaucracies are incompetent, just by virtue of the fact that they're bureaucracies. And, sometimes, Jack has to do things outside the law.

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Part of what gives the show its energy is we paint ourselves into corners and blast our way out.

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I can tell you that this year, we've actually decided to go smaller with the story line as compared to last season. We'll see a collision between Jack's former self and his current self. And he'll be at the center of the action as opposed to on the outside looking in as he has the past few seasons.

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I'm not kidding you when I tell you we don't know what's going to happen next episode. I really mean it.

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