Premiering tonight is the Showtime original series Billions created by Brian Koppelman & David Levien and Andrew Ross Sorkin and starring Paul Giamatti, Damian Lewis, Maggie Siff, Malin Akerman, Toby Leonard Moore, David Costabile and Condola Rashad. The show’s original music is composed by ESKMO aka Brenden Angelides. To learn more about the drama, which follows a hard-driving U.S. attorney who clashes with a hedge fund titan, check out our previous news article. The series will air every Sunday night on Showtime and the first episode is already available to stream for free on various platforms.
Also premiering tonight is the mini-series Mercy Street created by Lisa Q. Wolfinger & David Zabel and starring Josh Radnor, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Gary Cole, Peter Gerety, Norbert Leo Butz, AnnaSophia Robb and Cherry Jones. David Buckley (The Good Wife, The Forbidden King) has composed the music for the 6-parter, which follows the lives of two volunteer nurses on opposing sides of the Civil War. Mercy Street will air on the next few Sunday nights on PBS. Click here and visit the official series website for more information.
Another show premiering tonight is the TBS original series Angie Tribeca created by Steve Carell & Nancy Walls Carell and starring Rashida Jones as a veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Really Heinous Crimes Unit, as well as Hayes MacArthur, Jere Burns, Deon Cole and Andree Vermeulen. The show’s original music is composed by Jim Latham (Extreme Movie, Men in Black: The Series). The first ten episodes of the comedy are premiering today and ten more episodes will air over the next couple of weeks every Sunday night on TBS. Visit the official show website for more information.
Premiering tomorrow, January 18, is the mini-series War & Peace directed by Tom Harper and starring Paul Dano, Lily James, James Norton, Jim Broadbent, Gillian Anderson, Brian Cox, Ken Stott, Stephen Rea, Greta Scacchi, Jack Lowden, Tom Burke and Aisling Loftus. Martin Phipps (Woman in Gold, Brighton Rock, Peaky Blinders) has composed the original music for the project. The series based on Leo Tolstoy’s novel will air on Lifetime, A&E and History over the next four weeks. Check out our scoring assignment announcement and the official Lifetime website for more details.
Premiering on Thursday, January 21, is the CW original series DC’s Legends of Tomorrow developed by Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg & Marc Guggenheim and starring Victor Garber, Brandon Routh, Caity Lotz, Arthur Darvill, Ciara Renée, Franz Drameh, Dominic Purcell and Wentworth Miller. The show’s original music is composed by Blake Neely (Supergirl, The Mentalist) who also scored the network’s Arrow and The Flash. Legends of Tomorrow centers on the time-traveling Rip Hunter who assembles a ragtag group of heroes and villains to defeat an immortal threat that aims to destroy both the world and time itself. To learn more about the drama, visit the official show website.
Also premiering on Thursday is the BBC America mini-series London Spy created by author Tom Rob Smith, directed by Jacob Verbruggen and starring Ben Whishaw, Jim Broadbent, Charlotte Rampling and Edward Holcroft. David Holmes (Ocean’s Eleven, Analyze That, Out of Sight, Haywire) and Keefus Ciancia (Nashville, Diana) have composed the 5-parter’s original music. London Spy will air Thursday nights on BBC America. Visit our previous news article for more information about the series.
Premiering on Friday, January 22, is the Amazon original series Mad Dogs created by Cris Cole, produced by Shawn Ryan and starring Steve Zahn, Romany Malco, Michael Imperioli, Ben Chaplin and Billy Zane. The dramedy’s original music is composed by Rob Duncan (Castle, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Unit, Last Resort). The show centers on four one-time frat brothers whose reunion in Belize doesn’t quite turn out to be the vacation they were expecting. All ten episodes of the first season of Mad Dog will be available to stream starting on Friday.
Premiering on Saturday, January 23, is the British TV series Beowulf created by James Dormer and stars Kieran Bew in the title role, alongside William Hurt, Joanne Whalley, Ed Speleers and David Ajala. Rob Lane (Longford, Merlin, John Adams) has composed the show’s original music. For more information about the drama, which follows a troubled warrior who experiences love and loss yet shares a deep binding comradery with his fellow kinsmen, click here. Beowulf airs in the U.S. on Esquire. Visit the official show website for more information.
Also premiering on Saturday is the Lifetime original movie Toni Braxton: Unbreak My Heart directed by Vondie Curtis-Hall and starring Lex Scott Davis, Debbi Morgan, Gavin Houston, Cortney Scott Wright, Skye P. Marshall, LaToya Franklyn and Tiffany Hines. The film’s original music is composed by Laura Karpman (Taken, Black Nativity). To learn more about the drama, which centers around the the Grammy Award-winning R&B icon, visit the official movie website.
