Premiering on Wednesday, October 31 is the new CBS All Access original series Tell Me a Story created by Kevin Williamson and starring James Wolk, Billy Magnussen, Dania Ramirez, Danielle Campbell, Paul Wesley and Kim Cattrall. The show’s original music is composed by John Frizzell (Alien: Resurrection, Dante’s Peak, Office Space, The Following, Beavis and Butthead Do America) Check out our scoring assignment announcement to learn more about the series, which will premiere on Halloween with a new episode dropping every week.
Premiering on Friday, November 2 is the new Amazon original series Homecoming created by Eli Horowitz & Micah Bloomberg, directed by Sam Esmail and starring Julia Roberts, Bobby Cannavale, Stephan James, Shea Whigham, Jeremy Allen White, Alex Karpovsky, Sissy Spacek, Dermot Mulroney, Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Hong Chau. The show doesn’t feature an original score. Maggie Phillips serves as the project’s music supervisor. The full first season of the show, which follows a caseworker who helps soldiers transition back to civilian life, will be available to stream on Friday on Amazon Prime.
Also premiering on Friday is the 6-hour documentary Watergate directed and produced by Charles Ferguson (Inside Job, No End in Sight) about one of the biggest criminal conspiracies in modern politics and featuring appearances by Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward, John Dean, Jill Wine-Banks, Richard Ben-Veniste, among other. Ben Holiday has composed the project’s original music. The documentary premiered at this year’s Telluride Film Festival and will air over three nights on History following a limited theatrical release earlier this month.
Missing from last week’s TV music roundup was the new Netflix original series Chilling Adventures of Sabrina developed by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and starring Kiernan Shipka, Ross Lynch, Miranda Otto, Lucy Davis, Chance Perdomo, Michelle Gomez, Chance Perdomo, Jaz Sinclair, Richard Coyle, Tati Gabrielle and Bronson Pinchot. The show’s original music is composed by Adam Taylor (The Handmaid’s Tale, Before I Fall, I Think We’re Alone Now). Click here to watch the show’s opening titles sequence feat. music by Taylor and check out our previous article to learn more about the series.
Also missing from last week’s roundup was the CW drama Legacies created by Julie Plec and starring Danielle Rose Russell, Jenny Boyd, Kaylee Bryant, Quincy Fouse, Aria Shahghasemi, Peyton Alex Smith and Matt Davis. The series is a spin-off of The Vampire Diaries and The Originals and is scored by Mike Suby (The Butterfly Effect, Kyle XY, God Friended Me, Pretty Little Liars) who also scored the original shows. Visit the official show website to learn more about the drama, which premiered on October 25 and will air Thursday nights on The CW.
