'All American: Homecoming' Showcases Life at a Fictional HBCU Was It Filmed at a Real College?

Sports drama series 'All American: Homecoming' highlights the intricacies of college baseball and tennis at an HBCU in Atlanta. Was it filmed at a real college?

With a shocking Rotten Tomatoes score of Ninety six p.c, The CW's sports drama All American highlights the advanced, high-pressure life of celebrated high school football player Spencer James (performed via Daniel Ezra). After 4 successful seasons, the sequence were given a college-set spinoff: All American: Homecoming. In writer Nkechi Okoro Carroll's by-product, actors Geffri Maya and Peyton Alex Smith — who each seem in the OG series — portray rusty-yet-determined tennis participant Simone and gifted baseball participant Damon, respectively.

All American: Homecoming showcases the ins and outs of pursuing a upper schooling at an HBCU — aka historically Black college and college — particularly focusing on the students of Bringston University in Atlanta, Ga. The fictional college was first offered in the form of a backdoor pilot all through the third season of All American, which perfectly laid the groundwork for a college spinoff.

While the collection centers at the high-stakes world of college sports, all facets of the notoriously chaotic, convoluted, ramen-filled college experience are explored in Homecoming. A point from the imaginary Bringston U won't do you any good in real-life, but was All American: Homecoming filmed at a real HBCU institution?

Where was The CW's 'All American: Homecoming' filmed?

Despite a number of scenes correctly depicting the bustling nature of a college campus and the poster-adorned brick walls of a dormitory, Homecoming wasn't shot at a real college. According to IMDb, All American: Homecoming saw California's Warner Brothers Burbank Studios — specifically Stage 29 — as one in all its filming places. It's referred to as Hollywood magic, other people.

Burbank, Calif., is steadily referred to as the "Media Capital of the World," and "boasts more than 1,000 media and entertainment companies, such as Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros., Cartoon Network, Netflix, and Nickelodeon," as detailed via the City of Burbank's website. Fun truth: Burbank could also be house to the largest IKEA within the U.S.

Creator Nkechi Okoro Carroll hopes 'All American: Homecoming' will help teach the arena on the HBCU enjoy.

Nkechi Okoro Carroll — who earned her bachelor's stage from the University of Pennsylvania and her master's degree from New York University — all the time dreamed of attending an HBCU. With Homecoming, she was able to make her dream a fact. Well, kind of.

“It’s sort of like this mecca of college studies," she told Today of the HBCU college experience. Her vision for Bringston involved accurately and proudly bringing the realities of Atlanta's college scene to the small screen (even if her show is filmed in Cali).

"I'm totally surrounded by way of people who went to HBCUs, and [they've this] sense of discovering themselves and finding a place where they felt permission to be whatever version of Black they have been and in point of fact explore what that means," Nkechi instructed Entertainment Weekly. "This is my way of hoping I will introduce the HBCU revel in and widen the horizon for our youth as a whole."

But simply building a realistic HBCU from the ground up (or, rather, the writer's room up) for the sake of a setting wasn't enough for Nkechi Okoro Carroll; she vowed to fill her storylines with Black history.

"My writers [and I] take a lot of pleasure in infusing each displays with further info about us as a folks, our history, our culture as a result of it's important. So a lot of other people's sense of self and identification comes from what they suspect their history is," she explained to Entertainment Weekly.

"We have an HBCU the place discussions about race, Blackness, and the function it plays in you, and a majority of these different matter matters, [are] explored as part of the curriculum."

Nkechi takes illustration critically, and the ever-growing All American universe is best for it. Catch new episodes of All American: Homecoming on Mondays at Nine p.m. EST on The CW.

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