Jeff Cardoni has been hired to score the upcoming NBC comedy A.P. Bio. The show is created by Mike O’Brien (Saturday Night Live) and stars Glenn Howerton, Patton Oswalt, Lyric Lewis, Mary Sohn, Aparna Brielle, Jacob McCarthy and Nick Peine. The series follows a philosophy scholar who loses out on his dream job and goes to work as a high school Advanced Placement Biology teacher and uses his students to get back at the people in his life who have wronged him. O.Brien is also executive producing the Universal Television production with Lorne Michaels (30 Rock, Wayne’s World), Seth Meyers, Andrew Singer and Michael Shoemaker. A.P. Bio is set to premiere in early 2018 on NBC. Visit the official show website for updates.
Cardoni is also scoring the new CBS comedy Young Sheldon created by Chuck Lorre & Steven Molaro and starring Iain Armitage, Zoe Perry, Lance Barber, Annie Potts, Montana Jordan and Raegan Revord. The show centers on the early life of child genius Sheldon from the network’s The Big Bang Theory. John Debney has scored the pilot episode, which premiered in September. The comedy’s first season currently airs Thursday nights on CBS. The composer also continues to score HBO’s Silicon Valley and ABC’s Speechless and also has the features Status Update, Furlough, Malicious and Smitten! coming up.
