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Riveting new drama Homecoming is coming to Amazon Prime Video this week. The mysterious new series will premiere on the streaming service on Friday, November 2. Homecoming is directed by Sam Esmail, the brains behind Mr Robot. Julia Roberts leads the star-studded cast for what is set to be a big hit this Autumn.

Where is Homecoming set? Homecoming centres around the fictional Homecoming Transitional Support Centre, a facility helping soldiers transition back to civilian life. It is located in Tampa, Florida in the series. The show’s timelines flit between the past and present. In the past, Robert’s character Heidi Bergman is a caseworker at the Homecoming facility. In the present, she lives with her mother (Sissy Spacek) and works as a small-town waitress at a dockside seafood restaurant called Fat Morgan’s. WHO IS IN THE CAST OF HOMECOMING?

Filming Homecoming

Where is Homecoming filmed? Homecoming was filmed on at the Universal Studios backlot in Los Angeles where the production became the first project to shoot in Universal's newly constructed production facilities. Roberts opened up about the challenges that came with filming a series for the first time. Speaking to reporters including Express.co.uk in London in September, she said: “TV is not for the faint of heart for sure.” She explained: “Workload-wise we were very efficient and very aligned with our castmates and crew and it made the days, though the page count was very high, efficient and we had a great momentum all the time.” HOW MANY EPISODES ARE IN HOMECOMING?

Homecoming's set was built from scratch

On playing a chapter over a longer period of time than in a feature film, she said: “I kind of played two characters so it was in that way a great fun challenge for me. “There was some organisational stuff that I’m not used to so Sam kept me on track with the map of ‘ok, here’s what we know has happened and here’s what we don’t know has happened and here’s what we think might happen later’ and so there was a little bit of that.” Aesthetically, Esmail said that he wanted to build the set from scratch and not find an existing location because of the camera movements he had in mind. “I really wanted as much control as possible,” he said. “I think we shot something like 70% of the show on that set - it was really critical.” HOMECOMING RELEASE DATE, CAST, TRAILER, PLOT

Filming Homecoming

Filming Homecoming