Premiering in the U.S. tonight is the British series All Creatures Great and Small written by Ben Vanstone based on the classic BBC programme, directed by Brian Percival and starring Nicholas Ralph, Samuel West, Anna Madeley, Callum Woodhouse and Rachel Shenton The show’s original music is composed by Alexandra Harwood (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, The Escape, Growing Up Wild). All3Media & Playground Television have released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score when the drama premiered in the UK last year. Click here for the full album details and to learn more about the series, which will air in the U.S. on PBS.
Also premiering today is the HBO documentary Tiger directed by Matthew Heineman & Matthew Hamachek about the rise, fall, and epic comeback of global icon Tiger Woods. H. Scott Salinas (The Banker, The Ballad of Lefty Brown, Warrior, Birth of the Dragon, Sea of Shadows) has composed the original music for the 2-parter. Check out our previous news article for more information about the documentary, which is premiering on HBO today and next Sunday, January 17 and will also be available to stream on HBO Max.
Also premiering today is the third season of the Starz original series American Gods developed by Bryan Fuller & Michael Green based on Neil Gaiman’s book of the same title and starring Ricky Whittle, Ian McShane, Emily Browning, Bruce Langley, Yetide Badaki, Omid Abtahi, Crispin Glover, Demore Barnes, Ashley Reyes, Devery Jacobs, Blythe Danner. Andrew Lockington (San Andreas, Rampage, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Rampage, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters) has composed the original music for the new season. Check out our scoring assignment announcement to learn more about the project.
Premiering in the U.S. on Tuesday, January 12, is the Canadian series Trickster created by Michelle Latimer & Tony Elliott based on Eden Robinson’s novel Son of a Trickster and starring Joel Oulette, Crystle Lightning, Craig Lauzon, Anna Lambe, Kalani Queypo, Joel Thomas Hynes, Gail Maurice and Georgina Lightning. The show’s original music is composed by Todor Kobakov (The Samaritan, Born to Be Blue, Backstabbing for Beginners, Most Dangerous Game, Bitten). A soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score was released last fall when the drama premiered in Canada on CBS. Click here for the full album details and to learn more about the series, which will air stateside on The CW.
Premiering on Wednesday, January 13, is the Netflix docu-series Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer directed by Tiller Russell and executive produced by Tim Walsh, Eli Holzman & Aaron Saidman about one of the most notorious serial killers in American history. Brooke Blair & Will Blair (Green Room, Hold the Dark, The Silencing, I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore, Blue Ruin) have composed the show’s original music. Check out our previous article for more information about the 4-parter, which will be available to stream exclusively on Netflix.
Premiering on Thursday, January 14, is the HBO Max original film Locked Down directed by Doug Liman and starring Anne Hathaway, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Ben Stiller, Lucy Boynton, Stephen Merchant, Ben Kingsley, Mindy Kaling and Dule Hill. The movie’s original music is composed by John Powell (How to Train Your Dragon, Happy Feet, Solo: A Star Wars Story, X-Men: The Last Stand, Shrek, Bolt). Check out our scoring assignment announcement to learn more about the comedy, which is set to receive a theatrical release overseas later this year and will be available to stream in the U.S. exclusively on HBO Max.
Premiering on Friday, January 15 is Marvel Studios’ Disney+ limited series WandaVision directed by Matt Shakman and starring Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Kathryn Hahn, Teyonah Parris, Kat Dennings and Randall Park. Christophe Beck (Ant-Man, Edge of Tomorrow, The Muppets, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Hangover) has composed the show’s original score (click here for more details) and Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez (Frozen) have written the project’s theme song(s) (click here for more information).
Also premiering on Friday is the Hulu original film The Ultimate Playlist of Noise directed by Bennett Lasseter and starring Keean Johnson and Madeline Brewer. The film’s original score is composed by Erick Schroder (Under the Stadium Lights, Astro, American Christmas, Chasing Nightmares). A soundtrack album will be announced soon. The comedy drama follows an audio obsessed high school senior who learns he must undergo brain surgery that will render him deaf and decides to seize control of his fate by recording the Ultimate Playlist of Noise – a bucket list of all his favorite sounds. The movie will be available to stream exclusively on Hulu.
Missing from last week’s TV music roundup was the new Fox comedy Call Me Kat developed by Darlene Hunt based on the British series of the same title created by Miranda Hart and starring Mayim Bialik, Swoosie Kurtz, Leslie Jordan, Cheyenne Jackson, Kyla Pratt and Julian Gant. Anna Waronker (Shrill, Opposite Sex) is composing the show’s original music. Check out our previous news article to learn more about the comedy, which premiered last Sunday and will air every Thursday night on Fox.
Also missing from last week’s roundup was the new NBC comedy Mr. Mayor created byTina Fey & Robert Carlock and starring Ted Danson, Holly Hunter, Vella Lovell, Mike Cabellon, Kyla Kenedy and Bobby Moynihan. The show’s original music is composed by Jeff Richmond (30 Rock, Baby Mama, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Great News). Click here for more information about the series, which will air Thursday nights on NBC.
