Making the Homecoming TV Series 4: The Stars of Homecoming
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Making the Homecoming TV Series 4: The Stars of Homecoming

B1IntermediateNovember 2, 201835 min

Alex Blumberg sits down with the stars of the Homecoming TV show-- Julia Roberts and Stephan James, and director Sam Esmail-- to talk about how they came to the project and what it was like to film it. This is the final part of a four-part mini-series on the making of the Homecoming TV show.

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Hello, welcome back. It's me again, Alex Blumberg, the CEO of Gimlet, the company that made Homecoming. And I'm here, as probably most of you know by now, because for the past few episodes, I've been telling you the story of how Homecoming, our first ever fiction podcast, became an original TV series on Amazon, also called Homecoming.

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We covered that story on another one of our podcasts, a podcast called Startup. But we thought fans of the Homecoming podcast might be interested to hear it too. So we've been putting those startup episodes down this feed as well. This is the fourth and final episode how Homecoming the podcast became Homecoming the TV show. Enjoy.

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Welcome back to startup. I'm your host, Alex Bloomberg. And for the past three episodes, I've been telling the story of how our first fiction podcast Homecoming became an Amazon original television series. This is the fourth and final episode of our series.

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