Category: TV Scoring Assignments

Weekly TV Music Roundup (January 7, 2024)

Premiering today is the Fox animated comedy Grimsburg created by Catlan McClelland & Matthew Schlissel and starring Jon Hamm, Erinn Hayes, Alan Tudyk, Rachel Dratch, Greg Chun and Kevin Michael Richardson. The show’s original music is composed by Jesse Novak (BoJack Horseman, Tuca & Bertie, The Mindy Project, The Baby-Sitters Club, Champions, Blockbuster). Check out our previous news article to learn more about the Bento Box Entertainment production, which will air every Sunday on FOX.

Also premiering in the U.S. today is the British comedy Funny Woman developed by Morwenna Banks based on Nick Hornby’s novel Funny Girl and starring Gemma Arterton, Rupert Everett, Tom Bateman, Clare-Hope Ashitey, David Threlfall, Alexa Davies, Arsher Ali and Emily Bevans. Nainita Desai (The Deepest Breath, For Sama, The Reason I Jump, Crossfire, The Tower, American Murder: The Family Next Door) has composed the show’s original score. Sky Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score last year when the series premiered in the UK on Sky. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the album details. The comedy is making its U.S. debut on PBS.

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Walter Murphy Scoring Peacock’s ‘Ted’ TV Series

Walter Murphy (Family Guy, Wiseguy, American Dad, The Late Bloomer, Raw Force) is returning to score the new Peacock original comedy event series Ted. The show is created by Seth MacFarlane (The Orville, A Million Ways to Die in the West) and stars MacFarlane himself (as the voice of Ted), Max Burkholder, Scott Grimes, Alanna Ubach and Giorgia Whigham. The prequel to the Murphy-scored 2012 & 2015 Ted features is set in 1993 and depicts of the early life of the titular character who is now living back home in Framingham, Massachusetts with his best friend, John Bennett and his family.

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Joy Ngiaw Scoring Skydance Animation’s Apple TV+ Series ‘WondLa’

Joy Ngiaw (Glamorous, Rescued by Ruby) has been tapped to score the upcoming Apple TV+ original animated series WondLa. The show, which marks Skydance Animation’s first TV series, is based on the sci-fi fantasy novels by Tony DiTerlizzi (The Spiderwick Chronicles) and tells the coming-of-age story of a 16-year-old girl who goes on an epic journey with her robot caretaker and a cantankerous blue alien and learns that she might have the power to unite the world as she discovers fantastic civilizations.

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Dave Porter’s Theme from Marvel’s Disney+ Series ‘Echo’ Released

Hollywood Records & Marvel Music have released the first track from the soundtrack for Marvel Studios’ Disney+ original series Echo. Available to stream/download now on all major digital music services is the title track written by the show’s composer Dave Porter (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, The Disaster Artist, The Blacklist, Preacher, Hightown, Term Life). Also listen to the track after the jump. Echo is developed by Marion Dayre based on the Marvel Comics character and stars Alaqua Cox, Chaske Spencer, Vincent D’Onofrio, Graham Greene, Tantoo Cardinal, Zahn McClarnon, Devery Jacobs and Cody Lightning.

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‘What If…?’ Season 2 Soundtrack Album Details

The full details of the new soundtrack album for Marvel Studios’ Disney+ original animated series What If…? have been revealed. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s second season composed by Laura Karpman (The Marvels, Ms. Marvel, American Fiction, Lovecraft Country, Taken, Underground) &  Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum (Stockholm, Pennsylvania, Prisoner’s Daughter, Regarding Susan Sontag, Bird Karma). The soundtrack will be released digitally later today by Hollywood Records & Marvel Music and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. The labels have previously released albums for each episode of the back in 2021, as well as an EP for the Season 2 episode What If… Happy Hogan Saved Christmas? last month.

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Brocker Way Scoring Hulu’s ‘Death and Other Details’

Brocker Way (Wild Wild Country, The Battered Bastards of Baseball, Untold) has composed the original score for the new Hulu original series Death and Other Details. The show is created by Mike Weiss (Code Black) & Heidi Cole McAdams and stars Violett Beane, Mandy Patinkin, Lauren Patten, Angela Zhou,Rahul Kohli, Pardis Saremi, Hugo Diego Garcia and Linda Emond. The 10-part murder mystery is set amidst the glamor of the global elite and follows a brilliant and restless woman who finds herself in the wrong place/wrong time and becomes the prime suspect in a locked room murder mystery.

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‘First Cut Is the Deepest’ Cover from Netflix’s ‘The Brothers Sun’ Released

Netflix Music has released the cover version of Cat Stevens’ song The First Cut is the Deepest from the streamer’s new original series The Brothers Sun. The track is produced by Ross Flournoy, performed by Bo Wang and is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the song below. As previously reported, the label has also released a full soundtrack album featuring Nathan Matthew David’s & Nick Lee’s original score from the show last week. The Brothers Sun is created by Brad Falchuk & Byron Wu and stars Michelle Yeoh, Justin Chien, Sam Song Li, Highdee Kuan and Joon Lee.

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Nathan Larson Scoring HBO’s ‘The Synanon Fix’

Nathan Larson (Dirty Pretty Things, Boys Don’t Cry, Margin Call, Tigerland, Vinyl, Juliet, Naked) is the composer of the upcoming HBO original documentary series The Synanon Fix. The show is directed by Rory Kennedy (Last Days in Vietnam, Downfall: The Case Against Boeing, Ghosts of Abu Ghraib) and explores the rise and fall of the Synanon organization through the eyes of the members who lived it, from its origin as a groundbreaking drug rehabilitation program to its later descent into what many consider a cult.

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‘Dr. Death’ Season 2 Soundtrack Album Details

Lakeshore Records will release a new soundtrack album for the Peacock original anthology series Dr. Death. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s second season composed by Leopold Ross (Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, Death Note, The Book of Eli, Triple 9) & Nick Chuba (The Girl from Plainville, Operation Varsity Blues). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, January 5 and will be available to stream/download here. The label has previously released a soundtrack album featuring Atticus & Leopold Ross’ & Chuba’s score from the first season back in 2021. Season 2 of Dr. Death is written by Ashley Michel Hoban based on the Wondery podcast and stars Edgar Ramírez, Mandy Moore, Luke Kirby, Ashley Madekwe and Gustaf Hammarsten.

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Ramin Djawadi Scoring Prime Video’s ‘Fallout’ TV Series

Ramin Djawadi (Game of Thrones, Iron Man, Pacific Rim, Uncharted, Eternals, Clash of the Titans, A Wrinkle in Time) has recently been scoring the upcoming Prime Video original series Fallout. The show is based on the video game series of the same title and and stars Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten, Walton Goggins, Kyle MacLachlan, Moisés Arias, Michael Emerson, Sarita Choudhury, Frances Turner, Leslie Uggams, Dave Register, Johnny Pemberton, Zach Cherry, Rodrigo Luzzi, Xelia Mendes-Jones and Annabel O’Hagan. The drama is set a hundred years after the apocalypse and follows the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters as they are forced to return to the hellscape their ancestors left behind – and are shocked to discover a complex and highly violent universe waiting for them.

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