--- description: The event series, based on the bestselling book Long Mile Home by two Boston Globe reporters, will follow the lives of five people whose lives are forever changed by the Boston Marathon attacks title: Fox Develops Series on Boston Marathon Bombing image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt881bdf3a421e0575/69868d84cd804dfc57ccaa47/91eqwqk3fpl.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Boston Marathon Bombing Inspires Fox Series  by [Eliana Dockterman](/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Correspondent May 2, 2014 12:38 AM CUT  Penguin  by [Eliana Dockterman](/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Correspondent May 2, 2014 12:38 AM CUT Fox is [developing an event series](http://www.deadline.com/2014/05/rod-lurie-fox-boston-marathon/ "undefined") based on the bestselling book _Long Mile Home_, in which Boston _Globe_ reporters Scott Helman and Jenna Russell chronicle the stories of five people who were in some way affected by the Boston Marathon bombings in 2013, Deadline reports. Helman and Russell were among the members of the _Globe_‘s team that won a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of the bombing and its aftermath. They will act as consultants for the four-hour series. Fox has signed Rod Lurie, a producer and former investigative crime journalist, to write and direct the series. According to Deadline, he visited Boston before the 2014 marathon and went to the apartment where the bombers lived. There he found a note thumbtacked to the door that read: “Nobody in the building has anything to say to journalists/reporters. Please go away.” \[[_Deadline_](http://www.deadline.com/2014/05/rod-lurie-fox-boston-marathon/ "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/85298/boston-marathon-bombing-inspires-fox-series/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/85298/boston-marathon-bombing-inspires-fox-series/"},"headline":"Boston Marathon Bombing Inspires Fox Series","datePublished":"2014-05-02T00:38:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T07:37:06.430Z","description":"The event series, based on the bestselling book Long Mile Home by two Boston Globe reporters, will follow the lives of five people whose lives are forever changed by the Boston Marathon attacks","url":"https://time.com/85298/boston-marathon-bombing-inspires-fox-series/","keywords":["Television","Boston Marathon bombing"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt881bdf3a421e0575/69868d84cd804dfc57ccaa47/91eqwqk3fpl.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliana Dockterman","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt881bdf3a421e0575/69868d84cd804dfc57ccaa47/91eqwqk3fpl.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Long Mile Home","caption":"","creditText":"Penguin","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/85298/boston-marathon-bombing-inspires-fox-series/","name":"Boston Marathon Bombing Inspires Fox Series"}}]}] ```