the-night-ofPremiering tonight is the HBO original series The Night Of executive produced by Peter Moffat, Richard Price, Steven Zaillian James Gandolfini & Jane Tranter and starring John Turturro, Riz Ahmed, Michael Kenneth Williams, Bill Camp and Payman Maadi. The show’s original music is composed by Jeff Russo (FargoPowerCSI: CyberAbout Cherry). The drama centers around an ambulance-chasing New York City attorney who gets in over his head when he takes on the case of a Pakistani man accused of murdering a girl on the Upper West Side. To learn more about the series, which will air every Sunday night on HBO, visit the official show website. the-a-word

Premiering on Wednesday, July 13 in the U.S. is the British drama The A Word developed by Peter Bowker based on Yellow Peppers by Keren Margalit and starring Morven Christie.Lee Ingleby, Greg McHugh, Vinette Robinson, Max Vento, Molly Wright and Christopher Eccleston. Rob Lane (The Damned United, Merlin, Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands, John Adams) is composing the show’s original music. The A Word follows a 5-year-old boy and how his dysfunctional family cope with the revelation that he has autism. The drama airs in the U.S. on SundanceTV. Visit the official show website for more information.

stranger-thingsPremiering on Friday, July 22, is the Netflix original series Stranger Things created by Matt & Ross Duffer and starring Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Cara Buono, Charlie Heaton and Matthew Modine. The show’s original music is composed by Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein. The supernatural drama is set in Indiana, where a young boy vanishes into thin air amid an unfolding mystery involving top-secret experiments, supernatural forces and a strange little girl. The full first season of eight episodes will be available to stream on Friday on Netflix.