Premiering tonight is the TNT original series The Librarians: The Next Chapter developed by Dean Devlin & John Rogers and starring Callum McGowan, Jessica Green, Bluey Robinson and Olivia Morris. The show’s original music is composed byJoseph LoDuca (The Evil Dead, Xena: Warrior Princess, Spartacus: Blood and Sand, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Chucky, Leverage) who previously scored the original The Librarians television movies and TV series. Check out our previous article to learn more about the fantasy adventure drama, which will air every Sunday night on TNT.
Premiering on Thursday, May 29, is the Prime Video limited series The Better Sister created by Olivia Milch & Regina Corrado based on Alafair Burke’s book and starring Jessica Biel, Elizabeth Banks, Corey Stoll, Matthew Modine, Kim Dickens, Gloria Reuben, Maxwell Acee Donovan, Gabriel Sloyer, Bobby Naderi and Lorraine Toussaint. Will Bates (Immaculate, Dumb Money, The Magicians, The Life List, Unbelievable, Away, I Origins, The Path, The Looming Tower) has composed the show’s original music. Check out our scoring assignment announcement for more information about the 8-part crime thriller, which will be available to stream exclusively on Prime Video.
Also premiering on Thursday is the Netflix original series Dept. Q written and directed by Scott Frank and starring Matthew Goode, Chloe Pirrie, Jamie Sives, Alexej Manvelov, Mark Bonnar,Kate Dickie, Leah Byrne, Shirley Henderson and Kelly Macdonald. The show’s original music is composed by Carlos Rafael Rivera (The Queen’s Gambit, Lessons in Chemistry, Godless, Griselda, Hacks, A Walk Among the Tombstones, Ezra, Chupa, Just Beyond). Click here to learn more about the crime thriller, which will be available to stream exclusively on Netflix.
Also premiering in the U.S. on Thursday is the British comedy drama Death Valley created by Paul Doolan and starring Timothy Spall, Gwyneth Keyworth, Steffan Rhodri, Alexandria Riley, Melanie Walters, Rithvik Andugula, Remy Beasley and Mike Bubbins. Sion Trefor (Say Nothing, Toxic Town) has composed the show’s original music. Check out our previous news article for more information about the series, which is premiering in the UK today on BBC One and will make its domestic debut on Thursday on BritBox.
Premiering on Friday, May 30, is the Apple TV+ animated musical special Lulu Is a Rhinoceros developed by Jason & Allison Flom based on their children’s book, directed by Angela Stempel and starring Auliʻi Cravalho, Alex Newell, Paul Rust, Dulé Hill and Utkarsh Ambudkar. The special’s original score is composed by Jina Hyojin An & Shirley Song (XO, Kitty, BE@RBRICK, The Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star, Exploding Kittens, A Tourist’s Guide to Love). Leland (aka Brett McLaughlin) has written the original songs for the project. Click here to learn more about the Propagate Content & Bento Box Animation production, which will be available to stream exclusively on Apple TV+
Premiering on Saturday, May 31, is the HBO original movie Mountainhead written and directed by Jesse Armstrong and stars Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Ramy Youssef, Cory Michael Smith, Hadley Robinson, Andy Daly, Daniel Oreskes, Ali Kinkade, Ami MacKenzie, David Thompson and Ava Kostia. Nicholas Britell (Succession, Moonlight, Andor, If Beale Street Could Talk, Cruella, The Big Short Don’t Look Up, Vice) has composed the film’s original music. Check out our scoring assignment announcement for more information about the drama, which will air on HBO and will also be available to stream on HBO Max.