Dubois Records will release a new soundtrack album for the BBC drama Shetland. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s fifth, sixth, seventh and eight season composed by Emmy Award winner John Lunn (Downton Abbey, The Last Kingdom, The White Queen, Belgravia, The White Princess, Grantchester) and Danny Saul (The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, December 15. The streaming/download link will be added to this page soon. Silva Screen Records has previously released an album featuring Lunn’s music from the first seasons back in 2018. Shetland is based on Ann Cleeves’ novels and stars Ashley Jensen, Douglas Henshall,Alison O’Donnell, Lewis Howden, Steven Robertson, Anne Kidd, Stewart Porter, Erin Armstrong and Mark Bonnar.
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‘Reacher’ Season 2 Soundtrack Album Details
Paramount Music will release a new soundtrack album for the Prime Video original series Reacher. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s second season composed by Emmy Award nominee Tony Morales (FUBAR, Scorpion, Elena of Avalor, The Fugitive, Bloodline, The Bag Man, In Your Eyes, Eva Longoria: Searching for Mexico). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, December 15 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. The label has previously released an album featuring the composer’s score from Season 1 last year. Reacher is developed by Nick Santora based on Bad Luck and Trouble, the 11th book in Lee Child’s best-selling series and stars Alan Ritchson, Maria Sten, Serinda Swan, Shaun Sipos, Ferdinand Kingsley, Domenick Lombardozzi and Robert Patrick.
Segun Akinola Scoring BBC’s ‘Murder Is Easy’
Segun Akinola (Doctor Who, The Last Tree, 9/11: Inside the President’s War Room, Stephen) has recently scored the new BBC drama Murder Is Easy. The 2-parter is written by Sian Ejiwunmi-Le Berre based on Agatha Christie’s classic novel and stars David Jonsson, Penelope Wilton, Morfydd Clark, Tom Riley, Douglas Henshall, Mathew Baynton, Mark Bonnar, Nimra Bucha, Phoebe Licorish and Tamzin Outhwait. The thriller directed by Meenu Gaur (Zinda Bhaag) follows a man who arrives in England and unexpectedly finds himself investigating a series of suspicious deaths, determined to prove that they are not accidents but murders.
‘Platform 7’ Soundtrack Album Released
Bold Model has released a soundtrack album for the ITVX drama Platform 7. The album features selections of the show’s original score composed by Toydrum (Detour, Slow Horses, Prevenge, Three Pines, The Banishing, Future World, Sweetheart). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Listen to the composers’ title track below. Platform 7 is written by Paula Milne based on the bestselling novel by Louise Doughty and stars Jasmine Jobson, Toby Regbo, Yaamin Chowdhury and Phil Davis. The 4-part psychological thriller directed by Geoffrey Sax follows a woman who – after witnessing a cataclysmic event on a train platform – finds her fragmented memory jogged to reveal a connection between her own life and that of the event she has just witnessed.
Mark Mothersbaugh Scoring National Geographic’s Disney+ Series ‘A Real Bug’s Life’
Mark Mothersbaugh (Thor: Ragnarok, The LEGO Movie, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, The Royal Tenenbaums, 21Jump Street, The Croods: A New Age) has composed the original score for the upcoming documentary series A Real Bug’s Life. The show is inspired by Pixar’s animated feature A Bug’s Life (scored by Randy Newman) and takes a look into nine different micro bug worlds around the globe, where the forces of nature play out on a miniature scale and where tiny creatures rely on amazing powers and extraordinary alliances to make it through each day. The 5-parter narrated by Awkwafina tells stories of the tiny heroes — from a jumping spider looking for a home on the streets of New York to a Costa Rican orchid bee’s first day on the job making perfume.
‘The Santa Clauses’ Season 2 Soundtrack EP Released
Hollywood Records has released a new soundtrack EP for the Disney+ original series The Santa Clauses. The 5-track EP features the cover versions of Dancing with Myself & Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) and We Wish You a Merry Christmas from show’s second season, as well as the previously unreleased covers of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark’s If You Leave and the holiday classic Santa Claus Is Coming to Town (both produced by series composer Ariel Rechtshaid). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Listen to both new tracks below.
David Buckley & Luke Richards Scoring Netflix’s ‘Fool Me Once’
David Buckley (The Sandman, The Good Wife, Papillon, Nobody, Angel Has Fallen, The Forbidden Kingdom,Greenland) & Luke Richards (Six Four) have teamed up to score the upcoming British Netflix limited series Fool Me Once. The show is based on Harlan Coben’s bestseller and stars Michelle Keegan, Adeel Akhtar, Richard Armitage, Joanna Lumley, Emmett J. Scanlan, Dino Fetscher and Joe Armstrong. The 8-part crime thriller follows an ex-soldier who uncovers a deadly conspiracy that stretches into the past after she sees her murdered husband on a secret nanny cam.
Soundtrack Album for Netflix’s ‘Berlin’ Released
Netflix Music has released a soundtrack album for the streamer’s Spanish original series Berlin. The album features the show’s original score composed by Lucas Peire & Frank Montasell (Nowhere, Malasaña 32). Also included is the “main theme” song Bullets and Flowers performed by Francis White feat. Nikki Garcia, Goa’s cover of What a Wonderful World, lead actors Pedro Alonso’s & Tristan Ulloa’s rendition of Felicidad & other songs. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. Listen to Bullets and Flowers and Peire’s & Montasell’s title score track below. Berlin is created by Álex Pina & Esther Martínez Lobato and also stars Michelle Jenner, Julio Peña Fernández, Begoña Vargas and Joel Sánchez. The spin-off to the streamer’s hit show Money Heist (La Casa de Papel) follows the title character and a masterful gang as they gather in Paris for one of his greatest plans ever: to steal 44 million euros in jewels in one night.
‘The Goblin Song’ from ‘Doctor Who’ Christmas Special Episode ‘The Church on Ruby Road’ Released
Silva Screen Records has released the original song The Goblin Song from the Doctor Who Christmas special The Church on Ruby Road. The track written by series composer Murray Gold (Gentleman Jack, Torchwood, Dead Ringers, It’s a Sin, A Very English Scandal, Quiz) and featuring lyrics by writer/producer Russell T Davies and is now available to stream/download on all major digital music platforms, including Amazon. Also check out the official lyric video after the jump. The Church on Ruby Road is written by Davies, directed by Mark Tonderai and stars Ncuti Gatwa as the fifteenth Doctor, as well as Davina McCall, Michelle Greenidge, Anita Dobson and Angela Wynter.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (December 10, 2023)
Premiering on Friday, December 15, is the crime drama Finestkind written and directed by Brian Helgeland and starring Ben Foster, Toby Wallace, Jenna Ortega, Tommy Lee Jones, Tim Daly, Ismael Cruz Cordova, Lolita Davidovich and Clayne Crawford. The film’s original music is composed by Carter Burwell (Carol, True Grit, Fargo, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Twilight). No word yet on a soundtrack release. Check out our scoring assignment announcement to learn more about the movie, which premiered at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival and will be available to stream exclusively on Paramount+.
Also premiering on Friday is the Netflix original animated series Carol & The End of The World created by Dan Guterman and starring Martha Kelly, Kimberly Hébert Gregory, Michael Chernus, Mel Rodriguez, Beth Grant and Lawrence Pressman. Joe Wong (Russian Doll, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, Master of None, Will Trent, Lucky Hank, The Midnight Gospel, Krapoolis) has composed the show’s original music. A soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score will be announced soon. The animated comedy, which follows a woman struggling to embrace end-times chaos who searches for meaning in her last months on Earth, will be available to stream exclusively on Netflix.