Elliott Wheeler (Elvis, The Get Down, Every Day, Restraint) is the composer of the upcoming CW dramedy Good Cop/Bad Cop. The show is created by John Quaintance (Hot Pursuit, Aquamarine) and stars Leighton Meester, Luke Cook, Clancy Brown, Devon Terrell, Scott Lee, Blazey Best and William McKenna. The series follows an odd couple sister and brother detective team in a small Pacific Northwest police force as they must contend with colorful residents and their very complicated dynamic with each other and their police chief who also happens to be their father.
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‘Moominvalley’ Score Album Released
Gutsy has released a new soundtrack album for the animated series Moominvalley. The album features selections of the show’s original score composed by Samuli Kosminen, Pekka Kuusisto & Jarmo Saari. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composers’ first track (Moomintroll) below. Columbia Records has previously released an album featuring the songs from Season 1 back in 2019 and Gutsy has released an album featuring the songs from Season 2 the following year. Moominvalley is created by Marika Makaroff & Steve Box based on the classic Moomin books by Tove Jansson and features the voices of Taron Egerton, Jack Rowan, Rosamund Pike, Bel Powley, Matt Berry, Richard Ayoade, Warwick Davis, Akiya Henry and Kate Winslet.
‘A Better Place’ Soundtrack Album Released
Edition Komplizen has released a soundtrack album for the German TV series A Better Place. The album features selections of the show’s original score composed by Jasmin Reuter (24 Weeks, The Heartbreak Agency, Kiss Me Kosher) and Isola Music (Martin Glos & Smörre Ziegler). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services. Also listen to the composers’ opening titles track below. A Better Place is created by Alexander Lindh & Laurent Mercier and stars Maria Hofstätter, Steven Sowah, Katharina Schüttler, Sandra Borgmann, Johannes Kienast, Richard Sammel, Alev Irmak, Ulrich Brandhoff, Youness Abbaz, Aysima Ergün and Cynthia Micas. The drama set in a fictional city, where a a scientist and liberal Mayor and introduce a revolutionary rehabilitation program that aims at closing down the city’s correctional facility and reintegrating its prisoners into society.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (January 12, 2025)
Premiering in the U.S. on Wednesday, January 15, is the Spanish limited series Cristóbal Balenciaga created by Lourdes Iglesias, Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño & Jose Mari Goenag and starring Alberto San Juan, Belén Cuesta, Josean Bengoetxea, Cecilia Solaguren, Adam Quintero, Gemma Whelan, Gabrielle Lazure, Thomas Coumans, Anouk Grinberg, Patrice Thibaud, Nine d’Urso and Anna-Victoire Olivier. The show’s original music is composed by Alberto Iglesias (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Volver, The Constant Gardener, The Kite Runner, The Skin I Live In, The Room Next Door). Hollywood Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score last January when the series premiered overseas on Disney+. Click here for the full album details and to learn more about the 6-part drama, which will make its U.S. debut on Hulu.
Also premiering on Wednesday is the Italian Netflix original series Public Disorder (ACAB) created by Filippo Gravino based on Carlo Bonini’s novel ACAB – All Cops Are Bastards and starring Marco Giallini, Adriano Giannini, Valentina Bellè, Pierluigi Gigante, Fabrizio Nardi, Donatella Finocchiaro, Chiara Muscato, Daniele Natali, Federico Mainardi and Flavia Leone. Mokadelic (Citadel: Diana, Gomorrah, Django, Romulus, The Immortal) have composed the show’s original music. Netflix Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer collective’s score this past Friday. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album and for more information about the drama.
‘Public Disorder’ (‘ACAB’) Soundtrack Album Released
Netflix Music has released a soundtrack album for the Italian Netflix original series Public Disorder (ACAB). The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by the Italian psychedelic-post-rock collective Mokadelic (Gomorrah, Citadel: Diana, Django, The Immortal, Romulus). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. Also listen to the first track (No TAV) after the jump. Public Disorder is created by Filippo Gravino based on the novel ACAB – All Cops Are Bastards by Carlo Bonini and stars Marco Giallini, Adriano Giannini, Valentina Bellè, Fabrizio Nardi, Pierluigi Gigante, Donatella Finocchiaro, Daniele Natali, Federico Mainardi, Chiara Muscato and Flavia Leone. The 6-part crime drama follows a riot police team in Rome, whose personal and professional lives slowly fall apart because of the hatred burning inside each of them.
Ken Burns’ ‘The American Revolution’ to Feature Music by Johnny Gandelsman, Rhiannon Giddens, David Cieri & Others
PBS announced this week that Johnny Gandelsman, Rhiannon Giddens, Jennifer Kreisberg, David Cieri, Yo-Yo Ma and Richard Evans are contributing music to the upcoming documentary series The American Revolution. The show directed and produced by Ken Burns (Brooklyn Bridge, The Vietnam War, The Statue of Liberty), Sarah Botstein (The U.S. and the Holocaust) & David Schmidt, written by long-time collaborator Geoffrey C. Ward and examines how America’s creation turned the world upside-down. The 6-parter is narrated by Peter Coyote and includes the first-person voices of nearly 200 individual historic figures, read by a cast of actors, including Kenneth Branagh, Josh Brolin, Hugh Dancy, Claire Danes, Jeff Daniels, Alden Ehrenreich, Craig Ferguson, Morgan Freeman, Paul Giamatti, Domhnall Gleeson, Tom Hanks, Ethan Hawke, Maya Hawke, Lucas Hedges, Josh Hutcherson, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Keaton, Joel Kinnaman, Tracy Letts, Damian Lewis, Laura Linney, Edward Norton, David Oyelowo, Mandy Patinkin, Wendell Pierce, Liev Schreiber, Chaske Spencer, Dan Stevens, Meryl Streep, among others.
‘What If…?’ Season 3 Soundtrack Album Released
Hollywood Records & Marvel Music have released a new soundtrack album for the Disney+ animated series What If…?. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s third and final season composed by Academy Award nominee Laura Karpman (American Fiction, The Marvels, Captain America: Brave New World, Ms. Marvel, Lovecraft Country, Underground, Taken) and Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum (Stockholm, Pennsylvania, Prisoner’s Daughter, Regarding Susan Sontag, Bird Karma). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Listen to the first two tracks (Chat & Big Guns) after the jump. The label has previously released an album featuring selections of the composers’ score from Season 2, as well as multiple albums featuring Karpman’s music from Season 1.
Imaginary Future’s & Kinna Grannis’ ‘Free Fallin” Cover from ‘Apple TV+’s ‘Bad Monkey’ Released
WaterTower Music has released a previously unreleased song from the Apple TV+ original series Bad Monkey. Available to stream/download now on all major digital music services is a cover version of Free Fallin’ (originally written by Tom Petty & Jeff Lynne for Petty’s solo album Full Moon Fever) and performed by Imaginary Future feat. Kina Grannis. Also listen to the track below. A full soundtrack album featuring the other Tom Petty covers from the show, as well as selections of the comedy drama’s original score by Waz & Jamie Jackson was released in October. Bad Monkey isis developed by Bill Lawrence based on Carl Hiaasen’s novel and stars Vince Vaughn, Meredith Hagner, L. Scott Caldwell, Rob Delaney, Michelle Monaghan, Natalie Martinez, Alex Moffat, Scott Glenn, Ronald Peet and Jodie Turner-Smith.
‘Goosebumps: The Vanishing’ Soundtrack Album Details
Madison Gate Records will release a soundtrack album for the Disney+/Hulu original series Goosebumps: The Vanishing. The album features selections of the original music from the second season of the Goosebumps anthology series composed by The Newton Brothers (X-Men ’97, The Haunting of Hill House, Doctor Sleep, Five Nights at Freddy’s, The Life of Chuck, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Forever Purge). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, January 10. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the album and also listen to the composer’s first track after the jump. Goosebumps: The Vanishing is developed by Nicholas Stoller & Rob Letterman based on the bestselling book series published by Scholastic and stars David Schwimmer, Ana Ortiz, Jayden Bartels, Elijah M. Cooper, Sam McCarthy, Francesca Noel and Galilea La Salvia. The show follows two fraternal twins adjusting to life with their recently divorced dad who find themselves entangled in the chilling tale of four teenagers who mysteriously vanished in 1994.
Soundtrack Album for Prime Video’s ‘On Call’ to Be Released
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the Prime Video original series On Call. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Emmy Award nominee Atli Örvarsson (Silo, Vantage Point, Defending Jacob, The Hitman’s Bodyguard, The Edge of Seventeen, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, The Eagle, Rams). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, January 10 and will be available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the composer’s first track (Long Beach) below. On Call is created by Tim Walsh & Elliot Wolf and stars Troian Bellisario, Brandon Larracuente, Eriq La Salle and Lori Loughlin. The drama, which incorporates a mixture of dash-camera, bodycam and cellphone footage to create a cinema verité effect, follows a veteran training officer who gets paired with a rookie to go on patrol in Long Beach, California.