Premiering on Wednesday February 4, 2015 is the ABC comedy Fresh Off the Boat created by Eddie Huang, executive produced by Jake Kasdan and starring Randall Park, Constance Wu, Hudson Yang, Forrest Wheeler and Ian Chen. The show’s original music is composed by Craig Wedren (The School of Rock, Role Models, Wet Hot American Summer). Fresh Off the Boat is set in the 90s and follows a 12 year old, hip-hop loving boy who just moved to suburban Orlando from DC’s Chinatown with his parents to pursue the American Dream. The series will air Wednesday nights on ABC. For updates on the comedy, visit the official show website.
Premiering on Thursday, February 5, is the spy thriller Allegiance created by George Nolfi and starring Hope Davis, Scott Cohen, Gavin Stenhouse, Margarita Levieva, Morgan Spector, Kenneth Choi and Alex Peters. H. Scott Salinas (The Assets, The Square, Happy Valley) is composing the show’s original music. To learn more about the drama, check out our scoring assignment announcement. Allegiance will air every Thursday night on NBC.
Missing from last week’s TV Music Roundup was Pivot’s first original scripted drama Fortitude created by Simon Donald and starring Richard Dormer, Stanley Tucci, Michael Gambon, Christopher Eccleston, Sofie Grabol, Jessica Raine, Luke Treadaway, Nicholas Pinnock, Veronica Echegui and Johnny Harris. The show’s original music is composed by Ben Frost (Sleeping Beauty, The Deep). Fortitude centers on how a violent murder of a research scientist affects a close-knit community with the unsettling horror threatening the future of the town itself. The drama premiered on January 28 and will air every Thursday night on Pivot. For more information about the series, visit the official show website.
