Premiering on Tuesday, September 24, on ABC is Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. executive produced by Joss Whedon, Jed Whedon & Maurissa Tancharoen and starring Clark Gregg, Brett Dalton, Ming-Na Wen, Iain De Caestecker, Elizabeth Henstridge and Chloe Bennett. Bear McCreary (The Walking Dead, Battlestar Galactica) is scoring the show weekly with a full orchestra. To learn more about the series, which centers around Agent Phil Coulson from Marvel’s feature films as he assembles a group of Agents from the worldwide law-enforcement organization known as S.H.I.E.L.D., check out our previous news article. The drama will air every Tuesday night on ABC.
Premiering tomorrow, September 23, on CBS is the new drama Hostages created by Jeffrey Nachmanoff and starring Toni Collette, Dylan McDermott, Tate Donovan, Rhys Coiro, Billy Brown, Sandrine Holt, James Naughton, Quinn Shephard and Mateus Ward. Jeff Russo (Necessary Roughness, About Cherry) and Ben Decter (Silk Stalkings) are composing the show’s score. For more information about the series, which follows a premiere surgeon who is thrust into a political conspiracy when her family is taken hostage by a rogue FBI agent, check our previous article. Hostages will air every Monday night on CBS.
Also premiering tomorrow night is on NBC is the new drama The Blacklist created by Jon Blokenkamp (screenwriter of Taking Lives) and starring James Spader, Megan Boone, Diego Klattenhoff, Ryan Eggold, Harry Lennix and Parminder Nagra. James S. Levine (Glee, Nip/Tuck, American Horror Story) is composing the show’s score. The Blacklist follows an ex-government agent on the FBI’s most wanted list who surrenders with an offer to catch the most wanted terrorists. The drama will air every Monday night on NBC. For more information about the drama, visit the official show website.
Also premiering on Tuesday on ABC is the comedy The Goldbergs created by Adam F. Goldberg and starring Wendi McLendon-Covey, Jerr Garlin, George Segal, Hayley Orrantia, Sean Giambrone and Troy Gentile. Michael Wandmacher (Piranha 3D, My Bloody Valentine 3D) who has previously scored Goldberg’s Fox comedy Breaking In is scoring the series. Click here to learn more about the show, which follows an in-your-face mother and a hot-tempered father who love their three eccentric kids so much, they can’t bear to see them grow up. The Goldbergs will air every Tuesday night on ABC.
The show is paired with another new ABC comedy, Trophy Wife created by Emily Halpern & Sarah Haskins and starring Malin Akerman, Bradley Whitford, Marcia Gay Harden, Michaela Watkins, Natalie Morales, Ryan Scott Lee, Albert Tsai and Bailee Madison. The show’s original music is composed by Mark Kilian (Tsotsi, Pitch Perfect, Traitor) and Jake Monaco (Struck by Lightning). Visit our previous article to learn more the series, which follows a reformed party girl who finds herself with an insta-family when she falls in love with a successful businessman who has three manipulative kids and two judgmental ex-wives.
Also premiering on Tuesday on ABC is the new drama Lucky 7 created by David Zabel & Jason Richman and starring Summer Bishil, Lorraine Bruce, Alex Castillo, Christine Evangelista, Stephen Louis Grush, Matt Long, Anastasia Phillips, Luis Antonio Ramos and Isiah Whitlock Jr. Bob Thiele (Sons of Anarchy) and Paul Koch are composing the score for the show, which centers around a group of seven gas station employees in Queens, New York whose lives is transformed by an unexpected lottery win. Click here to learn more about Lucky 7, which will air every Tuesday night on ABC.
Premiering on Wednesday, September 24, is the comedy Back in the Game created by Mark and Robb Cullen and starring Maggie Lawson, James Caan, Lenora Crichlow, Griffin Gluck, Ben Koldyke, Kennedy Waite, J.J. Totah and Cooper Roth. Nick Urata (Crazy, Stupid, Love, Ruby Sparks) has scored the pilot episode. To learn more about the show, which follows a single mother who moves in with her estranged father and reluctantly starts coaching her son’s little league team and is drawn back into the world of sports, visit our previous news article. The comedy will air Wednesday nights on ABC.
Premiering on Thursday on NBC is the comedy The Michael J. Fox Show starring Fox, alongside Betsy Brandt, Conor Romero, Juliette Goglia, Jack Gore, Katie Finneran and Wendell Pierce. Jeff Cardoni (CSI: Miami) is scoring the show, which follows a news anchor who had to give up his career after being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease to focus on his health and his family five years ago and decides to get back to work. Click here for more information about the show, which will air Thursday nights on NBC.
Check back on this page next week for the remaining new shows premiering this week whose composer credits were not finalized at the time of writing this article.
