Category: TV Scoring Assignments

Torin Borrowdale Scoring Apple TV+’s ‘Five Days at Memorial’

Torin Borrowdale (Searching, Locke & Key, Run, The Toll) has recently been scoring the upcoming Apple TV+ limited series Five Days at Memorial. The show is created by John Ridley (12 Years a Slave, American Crime) & Carlton Cuse (Lost, Nash Bridges) and stars Vera Farmiga, Cherry Jones, Adepero Oduye, Julie Ann Emery, Joe Carroll, Cornelius Smith Jr., Michael Gaston and Molly Hager. The drama is based on the novel of the same title by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Sheri Fink and chronicles the first five days in a New Orleans hospital after Hurricane Katrina made landfall when exhausted caregivers were forced to make life-and-death decisions that haunted them for years to come.

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Soundtrack Album for Viaplay’s ‘Made in Oslo’ Released

Propeller Recordings has released a soundtrack album for the Viaplay original series Made in Oslo. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Kåre Chr. Vestrheim (In Order of Disappearance, Ninjababy) & Andréa Louise. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. Made in Oslo is created by Kathrine Valen Zeiner and stars Pia Tjelta, Jakob Cedergren, Tobias Menzies, Ola G. Furuseth, Mariann Hole, Sara Khorami, Ane Skumsvoll and Erle Østraat. The 8-part drama directed by Marit Moum Aune revolves around a passionate doctor who runs a fertility clinic in Norway and becomes obsessed with her mission to help couples have children.

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Anne Nikitin Scoring Starz’s ‘Dangerous Liaisons’

Anne Nikitin (American Animals, The Dropout, Fate: The Winx Saga, Mrs. Wilson, Lost Girls) has started recording her score for the upcoming Starz original series Dangerous Liaisons. The show is created by Harriet Warner (Tell Me Your Secrets) and stars Alice Englert, Nicholas Denton, Lesley Manville, Carice van Houten, Paloma Faith, Michael McElhatton, Kosar Ali, Nathanael Saleh, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Hilton Pelser, Mia Threapleton, Colette Dalal Tchantcho, Lucy Cohu, Fisayo Akinade, Maria Friedman and Clare Higgins. The drama is based on Laclos’ classic 18th century novel and tells the origin story of how the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont meet as passionate young lovers in Paris on the eve of revolution.

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Paramount+’s ‘The Offer’ to Feature Original Score by Isabella Summers

Isabella Summers (aka Isa Machine of Florence + the Machine) (Little Fires Everywhere, Panic, Physical) is the composer of the new Paramount+ limited series The Offer. The show is created by Michael Tolkin (The Player, Escape at Donnamora) and stars Miles Teller as Oscar-winning producer Albert S. Ruddy, Matthew Goode as Robert Evans, Juno Temple as Bettye McCartt, Dan Fogler as Francis Ford Coppola, Giovanni Ribisi as Joe Colombo, Colin Hanks as Barry Lapidus, Burn Gorman as Charles Bluhdorn and Patrick Gallo as Mario Puzo. The 10-part drama is based on Ruddy’s experiences of making Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather, one of the most legendary films in Paramount’s history.

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Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans Scoring Amazon’s ‘Night Sky’

Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans (Ozark, The Outsider, The Gift, Boy Erased, Enemy, The Devil All the Time, Martha Marcy May Marlene, The White Tiger, Pieces of Her) have been tapped to score the upcoming Amazon original series Night Sky. The show is created by Holden Miller and stars Sissy Spacek, J.K. Simmons, Chai Hansen and Kiah McKirnan. The sci-fi drama follows a couple who, years ago, discovered a chamber buried in their backyard which inexplicably leads to a strange, deserted planet, and whose quiet existence is suddenly upended when an enigmatic young man enters their lives.

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Soundtrack Album for Netflix’s ‘Battle Kitty’ Released

Maisie Music Publishing has released a soundtrack album for the Netflix original animated interactive series Battle Kitty. The album features the show’s original music composed by Max “Maxo” Coburn. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio samples. Battle Kitty is created by Matt Layzell (Apple and Onion, Pinky Malinky) and features the voices of Layzell himself, Gideon Adlon, Baker Terry, Grey Griffin
Robbie Daymond, Jaboukie Young-White, Phil LaMarr, Daniele Gaither and Amanda McCann. The  Netflix Animation, Choice Provisions, Higher Ground & Laughing Wild production is set in a futuristic-medieval world, in which warriors must find and defeat all the monsters on Battle Island, and follows Kitty and Orc, two best friends on a mission to help Kitty become Champion.

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‘Moon Knight’ Soundtrack Album Details

The full details of the soundtrack album for Marvel Studios’ Disney+ original series Moon Knight have been revealed. The album features selections of the show’s original score composed by Hesham Nazih (The Blue Elephant, Ibrahim Labyad, Born a King, Tito). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Wednesday, April 27 by Hollywood Records & Marvel Music and will be available to stream/download on all major digital music platforms, including Amazon. The composer’s end titles track has previously been released as a digital single last month. Moon Knight is developed by Jeremy Slater based on the Marvel Comics property and stars Oscar Isaac, Ethan Hawke, May Calamawy, Karim El Hakim, F. Murray Abraham, Khalid Abdalla, David Ganly, Gaspard Ulliel, Antonia Salib and Ann Akinjirin.

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Weekly TV Music Roundup (April 24, 2022)

Premiering today is the Starz limited series Gaslit created by Robbie Pickering based on the first season of the Slow Burn podcast and starring Julia Roberts, Sean Penn, Dan Stevens, Shea Whigham, Betty Gilpin and Darby Camp. The show’s original music is composed by Mac Quayle (Mr. Robot, Feud: Bette and Joan, American Horror Story, American Crime Story, The Politician, Ratched). Check out our scoring assignment announcement to learn more about the drama, which will air every Sunday on Starz.

Also premiering today is the Showtime original series The Man Who Fell to Earth developed by Alex Kurtzman & Jenny Lumet based on the Walter Tevis novel and the 1976 film of the same name and starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Naomie Harris, Jimmy Simpson, Rob Delaney, Sonya Cassidy, Joana Ribeiro, Clarke Peters, Annelle Olaleye, Kate Mulgrew and Bill Nighy. Jeff Russo (Fargo, Star Trek: Discovery & Picard, Legion, The Night Of, Lucy in the Sky, The Umbrella Academy) is composing the show’s original music. Check out our previous article for more information about the sci-fi drama, which will air Sundays on Showtime.

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Kris Bowers Scoring HBO’s ‘We Own This City’

Kris Bowers (Bridgerton, Green Book,  Space Jam: A New Legacy, Mrs. America, Inventing Anna, Dear White People, When They See Us) has recently scored the new HBO limited series We Own This City. The show is developed by George Pelecanos & David Simon (The Wire, Treme, The Deuce) and stars Jon Bernthal, Wunmi Mosaku, Jamie Hector, Josh Charles, McKinley Belcher III, Dagmara Domińczyk, Don Harvey, Rob Brown, David Corenswet, Ian Duff, Larry Mitchell and Lucas Van Enge. The 6-part drama is directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green and chronicles the rise and fall of the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force and the corruption and moral collapse that befell an American city in which the policies of drug prohibition and mass arrest were championed at the expense of actual police work.

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Soundtrack Album for Amazon’s ‘Outer Range’ Released

Milan Records has released a soundtrack album for the Amazon original series Outer Range. The album features selections of the original score from the show’s first season composed by Emmy Award nominees Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans (Ozark, The Gift, Enemy, Boy Erased, The Devil All the Time, Tokyo Vice, The White Tiger, Pieces of Her). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. Outer Range is created by Brian Watkins and stars Josh Brolin, Imogen Poots, Lili Taylor, Lewis Pullman, Tamara Podemski, Tom Pelphrey, Shaun Sipos, Noah Reid, Isabel Arraiza, Olive Abercrombie and Will Patton. The mystery drama centers on a rancher fighting for his land and family, who discovers an unfathomable mystery at the edge of Wyoming’s wilderness.

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