Film Music Reporter

Jazz trumpeter, multi-instrumentalist and music producer Michael Leonhart is making his television scoring debut on the new NBC comedy Newlyweds. The show is created by Gail Lerner (Black-ish, Animal Practice) & Jamie Lee Curtis and stars Téa Leoni, Tim Daly, Curtis herrself, Emma Meisel, Bill O’Neill, Ignacio Diaz-Silverio and Al Madrigal. The series tells a later-in-life love story about a free-spirited woman and a buttoned-up professor who marry impetuously after a whirlwind courtship. Lerner & Curtis are also executive producing the Universal Television production with Eric & Kim Tannenbaum (Two and a Half Men, Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist) and Jason Wang (Acapulco, Home Economics) for The Tannenbaum Company, as well as Scott Schwartz and Lionsgate Television. Bruce Helford (Kevin Can Wait, Anger Management) has recently joined the project as the new showrunner. Pam Fryman (How I Met Your Mother, Just Shoot Me) directed and executive produced the pilot episode. Leonhart’s previous scoring credits include the features Kung Fu Zohra, The Conservation Game and The Student Body. Newlyweds will premiere tomorrow, October 22 on NBC and will also be available to stream on Peacock.