Haim Mazar (The Iceman, The Taking of Deborah Logan, Sneakerheads, I Am Wrath) has been hired to score the second season of the Hulu original series Woke. The show is created by Keith Knight & Marshall Todd and stars Lamorne Morris, Blake Anderson, T. Murph, Rose McIver and Sasheer Zamata. The comedy follows an African-American cartoonist who finds himself on the verge of mainstream success when an unexpected incident changes his life.
Category: TV Scoring Assignments
Mark Korven Scoring EPIX’s ‘Chapelwaite’
Mark Korven (The Witch, The Lighthouse, Cube, Them, The Terror: Infamy, In the Tall Grass) is the composer of the upcoming Epix original series Chapelwaite. The show is developed by Peter Filardi (Flatliners, The Craft) & Jason Filardi (Bringing Down the House, 17 Again) based on the short story Jerusalem’s Lot by Stephen King and stars Adrien Brody and Emily Hampshire. The horror drama is set in the 1850 and follows a man who relocates his family of three children to his ancestral home in Maine after his wife dies at sea and will soon have to confront the secrets of his family’s sordid history.
Soundtrack Album for National Theatre’s ‘Romeo & Juliet’ to Be Released
National Theatre will release a soundtrack album for the organization’s film production of Romeo & Juliet. The album features the drama’s original music composed by Michael Bruce. The soundtrack will be released digitally on August 6 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Romeo & Juliet is directed by Shakespeare Theatre Company Artistic Director Simon Godwin, adapted for television by Emily Burns and stars Jessie Buckley, Josh O’Connor, Tamsin Greig, Fisayo Akinade, Adrian Lester, Lucian Msamati and Deborah Findlay. The filmed version of William Shakespeare’s classic play about two young lovers who strive to transcend a world of violence and hate was shot last year over the course of three weeks at National’s Lyttelton theater.
Soundtrack Album for HBO’s ‘The White Lotus’ Released
WaterTower Music has released a soundtrack album for the HBO limited series The White Lotus. The album features selections of the original music from the show composed by Cristobal Tapia de Veer (Utopia, The Third Day, The Girl with All the Gifts, Hunters, National Treasure). Visit Amazon or any other digital music service to stream/download the soundtrack and listen to a first track after the jump. The White Lotus is created, written and directed by Mike White and stars Murray Barlett, Connie Britton, Jennifer Coolidge, Fred Hechinger, Alexandra Daddario, Jake Lacy, Brittany O’Grady, Natasha Rothwell, Sydney Sweeney and Steve Zahn. Thesocial satire is set at an exclusive Hawaiian resort and follows the vacations of various hotel guests over the span of a week as they relax and rejuvenate in paradise.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (July 11, 2021)
Premiering tonight is the HBO limited series The White Lotus created by Mike White and starring Murray Bartlett, Connie Britton, Alexandra Daddario, Jennifer Coolidge, Jake Lacy, Fred Hechinger, Brittany O’Grady, Sydney Sweeney, Natasha Rothwell and Steve Zahn. The show’s original music is composed by Cristobal Tapia de Veer (Utopia, The Girl with All the Gifts, Hunters, The Third Day, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency). Check out our previous news article for the full album details and to learn more about the satire, which will air Sunday nights on HBO and will also be available to stream on HBO Max.
Premiering on Thursday, July 15, is the Peacock original series Dr. Death based on Wondery’s podcast and starring Joshua Jackson, Grace Gummer, Christian Slater, AnnaSophia Robb and Alec Baldwin. Atticus Ross (The Social Network, Watchmen, Mank, Soul, Gone Girl), Leopold Ross (The Book of Eli, Broken City) & Nick Chuba (Operation Varsity Blues) are composing the show’s original music. Click here for more information about the drama, which will be available to stream exclusively on Peacock.
Tim Hecker Scoring BBC’s & AMC+’s ‘The North Water’
Electronic music artist Tim Hecker (The Free World) has composed the original score for the new BBC and AMC+ original series The North Water. The show is developed by Andrew Haigh (Lean on Pete, 45 Years, Weekend) based on the best-selling novel by Ian McGuirand and stars Jack O’Connell, Colin Farrell, Stephen Graham, Peter Mullan, Sam Spruell and Roland Møller. The 5-part drama is set in Hull, England, and on the ice floes of the Arctic in the late 1850s and tells the story of a disgraced ex-army surgeon who signs up as the ship’s doctor on a whaling expedition to the Arctic.
Soundtrack Album for Disney+’s ‘Monsters at Work’ to Be Released
Walt Disney Records will release a soundtrack album for the Disney+ original series Monsters at Work. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Dominic Lewis (Peter Rabbit, The Man in the High Castle, DuckTales, My Spy, Money Monster, Free Birds, Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween). Also included are two songs performed by Billy Crystal who stars as the voice of Mike Wazowski. The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, July 9 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music outlets. Monsters at Work is developed by Bobs Gannaway based on Pixar’s feature Monsters, Inc. and also stars John Goodman, Ben Feldman, Mindy Kaling, Henry Winkler, Lucas Neff and Alanna Ubach.
Soundtrack Album for TNT’s ‘Animal Kingdom’ to Be Released
WaterTower Music will release the first-ever soundtrack album for the TNT original series Animal Kingdom. The album features selections of the original score from the show composed by Alexis Marsh & Samuel Jones (Equity, Next Gen, We’ll Never Have Paris, Lila & Eve). Also included is the drama’s main title theme Big Love by Claudia Sarne & Atticus Ross.The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, July 9 and will be available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio samples. Animal Kingdom is developed by Jonathan Lisco based on David Michod’s feature of the same title and stars Ellen Barkin, Scott Speedman, Shawn Hatosy, Ben Robson, Jake Weary, Finn Cole, Daniella Alonso, Molly Gordon and Carolina Guerra.
HBO Max’s ‘Gossip Girl’ Reboot to Feature Music by Ariel Rechtshaid
Record producer/songwriter Ariel Rechtshaid is making his television scoring debut on HBO Max’s Gossip Girl reboot. The show is developed by Joshua Safran and stars Jordan Alexander, Eli Brown, Thomas Doherty, Tavi Gevinson, Emily Alyn Lind, Zion Moreno, Evan Mock, Whitney Peak and Savannah Lee Smith. Rob Lowry serves as the music supervisor of the series, which centers on new generation of New York private school teens as they are being introduced to social surveillance nine years after the original blogger’s website went dark.
Joseph LoDuca Scoring IMDb TV’s ‘Leverage: Redemption’
Joseph LoDuca (The Evil Dead, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Xena: Warrior Princess, The Librarians, Spartacus: Blood and Sand) is returning as the composer of the new IMDb TV original series Leverage: Redemption. The show is based on TNT’s hit series Leverage and stars Noah Wyle, Beth Riesgraf, Gina Bellman, Christian Kane, Aldis Hodge and Aleyse Shannon. The show follows the Hitter, the Hacker, the Grifter and the Thief who – with the help of a new tech genius and corporate fixer – take on a new kind of villain. Kate Rorick is the project’s showrunner and is also executive producing the Electric Entertainment production with Dean Devlin (Independence Day, Stargate), Marc Roskin & Rachel Olschan-Wilson (The Outpost, Bad Samaritan).