Homecoming

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Being in charge of a big-budget TV production means having to make decisions. It's a new kind of power for Micah and Eli, and one that's sometimes uncomfortable to exercise. The words they write have real-world, three-dimensional-- and sometimes winged-- consequences. This is the third part of a four-part mini-series on the making of the Homecoming TV show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Micah and Eli get to work, writing the scripts for the Homecoming TV show. But taking something meant only for the ear, and turning it into something for the eye... proves to be deceptively challenging. Plus, Alex visits the set of the show, to meet the small army of people actually building the visual world of Homecoming. This is the second part of a four-part mini-series on the making of the Homecoming TV show, which airs November 4th. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Two years ago, Gimlet launched its first fiction podcast: Homecoming. Now, this November, a television series based on the hit podcast and starring Julia Roberts is launching.  Alex Blumberg went behind the scenes as Homecoming went from podcast to TV production. In this first episode, Homecoming creators Eli Horowitz and Micah Bloomberg recount the journey, from concept to podcast to pitching the show to bigtime Hollywood producers. And we hear from some of the celebrities they met along the way. This is the first part of a four-part mini-series on the making of the Homecoming TV show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

That feeling you’re feeling? You’ll get used to it. Homecoming was directed by Eli Horowitz; written by Micah Bloomberg and Eli Horowitz; produced by April Lamb; sound design and mixing by Rich Bologna; editing by Kate Bilinski; episode music by Billy Martin; recording and opening theme by Mark Phillips; casting by Henry Russell Bergstein; production coordination by Jordan Sirek. Special thanks to John Brandon, Jacob Bronstein, Alicia Van Couvering, Satchel Buck Jones, Rachel Khong, Matthew Boll, Victoria Barner, Peter Bresnan, and Alex Blumberg. Homecoming is a production of Gimlet Media. To read The Lost Coast, the serialized companion novel, go to apple.co/homecoming HEIDI BERGMAN -  Catherine Keener COLIN BELFAST - David Schwimmer AUDREY TEMPLE - Amy Sedaris ANTHONY AZAM - David Cross THOMAS CARRASCO - Aaron Serotsky  GLORIA CRUZ - Mercedes Ruehl BECKY MURDO - Alia Shawkat  RUDY DETROIT - Micah Stock GUARD - Suni Reyes with RANDOLPH GEIST - Spike Jonze and WALTER CRUZ - Oscar Isaac Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices