Walt Disney Records will release the first-ever score album for Disney Channel’s High School Musical trilogy. The album features selections of the original score from the movies composed by David Lawrence (American Pie, Descendants, Van Wilder, Julie and the Phantoms, Teen Beach Movie, Company Man). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, January 15 and will be available to stream/download here, where you can also listen to audio clips. The High School Musica trilogy is directed by Kenny Ortega and stars Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel, Corbin Bleu and Monique Coleman.
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‘Fireball XL5’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Silva Screen Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the British 60s sci-fi puppet series Fireball XL5 created by Gerry & Sylvia Anderson. The album features selections of the original music from sixteen episodes of the show composed by Barry Gray (Thunderbirds, UFO, Space: 1999, Supercar, Captain Scarlet), including the Fireball XL5 main theme and single version. Also included is the closing song Fireball performed by Don Spencer. The soundtrack will be released digitally next Friday, January 22 and will be available to stream/download here. A CD and vinyl version will be coming out later this month (visit Amazon to order both versions).
Jeff Beal Scoring The CW’s ‘Walker’
Jeff Beal (House of Cards, Pollock, Rome, Carnivale, The Biggest Little Farm, Appaloosa) has been tapped to score the new CW drama Walker. The show is created by Anna Fricke (Being Human, Valor) based on the 90s hit CBS series Walker, Texas Ranger and stars Jared Padalecki, Lindsey Morgan, Keegan Allen, Kale Culley, Violet Brinson, Molly Hagen, Mitch Pileggi, Coby Bell and Jeff Pierr. The series revolves around a widower and father of two with his own moral code, who returns home to Austin after being undercover for two years, only to discover there’s harder work to be done at home.
Kevin Kiner to Return for ‘Star Wars: The Bad Batch’
Kevin Kiner is returning to score to score Lucasfilm’s upcoming Disney+ animated series Star Wars: The Bad Batch. The show follows the elite and experimental clones of the Bad Batch as they find their way in a rapidly changing galaxy in the immediate aftermath of the Clone War. The project is executive produced by Dave Filoni (The Mandalorian), Athena Portillo (Star Wars Resistance), Brad Rau and Jennifer Corbett. Rau also serves as the supervising director and Corbett serves as head writer.
‘UFOs’ ‘OVNI(s)’ Soundtrack Album Released
Milan Records has released a soundtrack album for the French TV series UFOs (OVNI(s)). The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Thylacine. Also included are tracks by Jean-Michel Jarre & Tangerine Dream, Janko Nilovic, Cerrone, Bernard Estardy & others. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. UFOs is created by Clémence Dargent & Martin Douaire and stars Melvil Poupaud, Michel Vuillermoz, Géraldine Pailhas, Quentin Dolmaire and Daphné Patakia. The comedy follows a brilliant space engineer and the head of GEPAN, a unit specializing in UFOs, who is tasked with coming up with scientific explanations for the UFO sightings that are currently dominating the headlines.
ABC’s ‘Call Your Mother’ to Feature Music by Matt Cartsonis
Matt Cartsonis (Chump Change, The Women of Country) is the composer of the new ABC comedy Call Your Mother. The show is created by Kari Lizer (The New Adventures of Old Christine) and stars Kyra Sedgwick, Rachel Sennott, Joey Bragg, Emma Caymares, Austin Crute and Patrick Brammall. The series revolves around an empty-nester mom who wonders how she ended up alone while her children live their best lives thousands of miles away and decides to reinserts herself into their lives. Lizer is also executive producing the Sony Pictures Television & ABC Signature production with Tim Kaiser (Will & Grace) and Pam Fryman (How I Met Your Mother, Just Shoot Me!).
Soundtrack Album for HBO’s ‘The Larry Sanders Show’ to Be Released
Envisage Entertainment will release the first-ever soundtrack album for the HBO comedy The Larry Sanders Show created by Garry Shandling & Dennis Klein and starring Shandling himself, Jeffrey Tambor, Megan Gallagher, Wallace Langham, Jeremy Piven, Penny Johnson, Linda Doucett, Janeane Garofalo and Rip Torn. The album features selections of the original music from the show composed by Frank Fitzpatrick (Nuns on the Run, Breaking the Rules, Paid in Full, Highway to Hell). The soundtrack will be released digitally on February 19, 2021 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon.
Edmund Butt Scoring ITV’s ‘Finding Alice’
Edmund Butt (Life on Mars, Origin, Ashes to Ashes, Bancroft, Mistress) has composed the original music for the new ITV series Finding Alice. The show is created by Roger Goldby (The Time of Their Lives), Keeley Hawes & Simon Nye (The Durrells in Corfu) and stars Hawes herself, Joanna Lumley, Nigel Havers, Jason Merrells, Gemma Jones, Kenneth Cranham, Isabella Pappas, Sharon Rooney and Rhashan Stone. The 6-part drama focuses on a woman’s journey of grief, love and life after her partner falls down the stairs and dies soon after the couple move into the dream home he designed.
‘De Gaulle, L’éclat et le secret’ Soundtrack Album Released
Long Distance has released a soundtrack album for the French mini-series De Gaulle, L’éclat et le secret. The album features selections of the original music from the show composed by Armand Amar (The Concert, Mia and the White Lion, The Source, A Bag of Marbles, The History of Love, Belle & Sebastian). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon (and other digital music stores), where you can also check out the track list and listen to audio samples. De Gaulle, L’éclat et le secret is directed by François Velle, written by Jacques Santamaria & Patrice Duhamel and stars Francis Huster, Pierre Rochefort, Margaux Chatelier, Christophe Barbier, Eric Naggar and Pierre Aussedat. The 6-parter chronicles Charles de Gaulle’s live rom the appeal of June 18, 1940 to his departure from power in 1969.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (January 10, 2021)
Premiering in the U.S. tonight is the British series All Creatures Great and Small written by Ben Vanstone based on the classic BBC programme, directed by Brian Percival and starring Nicholas Ralph, Samuel West, Anna Madeley, Callum Woodhouse and Rachel Shenton The show’s original music is composed by Alexandra Harwood (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, The Escape, Growing Up Wild). All3Media & Playground Television have released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score when the drama premiered in the UK last year. Click here for the full album details and to learn more about the series, which will air in the U.S. on PBS.
Also premiering today is the HBO documentary Tiger directed by Matthew Heineman & Matthew Hamachek about the rise, fall, and epic comeback of global icon Tiger Woods. H. Scott Salinas (The Banker, The Ballad of Lefty Brown, Warrior, Birth of the Dragon, Sea of Shadows) has composed the original music for the 2-parter. Check out our previous news article for more information about the documentary, which is premiering on HBO today and next Sunday, January 17 and will also be available to stream on HBO Max.