Category: TV Scoring Assignments

Weekly TV Music Roundup (November 29, 2020)

Premiering tonight is the Showtime documentary My Psychedelic Love Story directed by Errol Morris. The film’s original music is composed by Paul Leonard-Morgan (Limitless, Dredd, Dynasty, Tales from the Loop, Walking with Dinosaurs 3D) who previously collaborated with Morris on the Netflix series Wormwood and the features The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography and American Dharma. The movie, which examines the notorious high priest of LSD Timothy Leary through the eyes of his famed lover Joanna Harcourt-Smith, premiered at this year’s AFI Fest and will debut exclusively on Showtime.

Premiering on Friday, December 4, is the Disney+ original movie Godmothered directed by Sharon Maguire and starring Isla Fisher, Jillian Bell, Jane Curtin, Jillian Shea Spaeder (who also contributed new songs to the project), Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Willa Skye, Santiago Cabrera, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Artemis Pebdani, Stephnie Weir, June Squibb and Carlease Burke. Rachel Portman (Emma, The Cider House Rules, Chocolat) has composed the film’s original score. Check out our previous article to learn more about the comedy, which will be available to stream exclusively on Disney+.

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Theme Song from Apple TV+ Series ‘Stillwater’ Released

Joyful Noise Recordings has released the theme song from the new Apple TV+ animated series Stillwater. Never Ending Dream is written and performed by Kishi Bashi who is also co-scoring the show with Toby Chu. The song is now available to stream/download exclusively on Apple Music/iTunes. Stillwater based on the Caldecott Honor Children’s book series by Jon J Muth features the voices of James Sie, Judah Mackey, Eva Binder  and Tucker Chandler and tells the story of a beautiful friendship formed between three siblings and their next-door neighbor, a wise panda named Stillwater.

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‘The X-Files’ Volume 4 Soundtrack Album Details Announced

La-La Land Records has announced a new soundtrack release for the Fox mystery drama The X-Files created by Chris Carter and starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson. The 4-CD set features previously unreleased music from the series composed by Emmy Award nominee Mark Snow (Millennium, Smallville, The New Mutants, La Femme Nikita, Blue Bloods). Among the episodes featured on the album are Apocrypha, Avatar, Never Again, Triangle, Invocation and Nothing Important Happened Today. Also included is the finale music from the second X-Files movie Fight the Future. The soundtrack is limited to 2,000 copies and will be available to order on the label’s website on Tuesday, December 1. Click here for the full album details.

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Original Song ‘American Heartbreak’ by Black Thought feat. Ledisi from HBO’s ‘Between the World and Me’ Released

Passyunk Productions and Human Re Sources have released the original end credits song American Heartbreak from the HBO special Between the World and Me. The track is performed by Black Thought feat. Ledisi and co-written by themselves, James Poyser and Salaam Remi. Visit Apple Music/iTunes to stream/download the song. Between the World and Me directed by Kamilah Forbes is based on the 2018 adaptation and staging of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ 2015 book of the same title at the Apollo Theater and combines elements of the stage production, including readings from Coates’ book, which recounts the author’s experiences growing up in Baltimore’s inner city and his growing fear of daily violence against the Black community, and incorporates documentary footage from the actors’ home life, archival footage, and animation.

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Nathan Wang to Score Disney Channel’s ‘Christmas Again’

Composer Nathan Wang is set to reteam with director Andy Fickman on the upcoming Disney Channel original movie Christmas Again. The holiday comedy starring Scarlett Estevez, Daniel Sunjata, Alexis Carra, Ashlyn Jade Lopez, Priscilla Lopez, Beth Lacke, Tony Amendola and Gary Anthony Williams centers on a high-spirited 11-year-old girl experiencing a lackluster Christmas who makes a wish to a mall Santa for a “do-over,” and unexpectedly finds herself reliving Christmas day over and over.

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Soundtrack Album for Amazon’s & IMDb TV’s ‘Alex Rider’ to Be Released

Lakeshore Records will release the first soundtrack album for the British series Alex Rider. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s first season composed by Raffertie (aka Benjamin Stefanski) (White Dragon, Zone 414). The soundtrack will be released digitally on December 11, 2020 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon. Alex Rider is developed by Guy Burt based on the novels by Anthony Horowitz and stars Otto Farrant, Stephen Dillane, Andrew Buchan, Vicky McClure, Brenock O’Connor and Ronkẹ Adékoluẹjo. The spy thriller follows the title character as he is recruited by a subdivision of MI6 as a teenage spy to infiltrate places that others are unable to.

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Nate Walcott & Mike Mogis Scoring CBS All Access’ ‘The Stand’

Nate Walcott & Mike Mogis are composing the original score for the upcoming CBS All Access limited series The Stand. The show is developed by Josh Boone & Benjamin Cavell based on Stephen King’s best-selling novel of the same name and stars Whoopi Goldberg, Alexander Skarsgård, James Marsden, Odessa Young, Jovan Adepo, Amber Heard, Owen Teague, Henry Zaga, Brad William Henke, Greg Kinnear, Irene Bedard and Nat Wolff. Boone has directed the first and last episodes and is also executive producing the project with Cavell (SEAL Team), Taylor Elmore (Justified), Will Weiske, Jimmy Miller (Bad Teacher, The Other Guys), Roy Lee (It, The LEGO Movie) and Richard P. Rubinstein (Dawn of the Dead, Children of Dune).

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Soundtrack EP for Cartoon Network’s ‘Adventure Time: Distant Lands’ Episode ‘Obsidian’ Released

WaterTower Music has released a new soundtrack EP for the Cartoon Network animated special Adventure Time: Distant Lands. The 6-track EP features all the original songs from the second episode of the show, entitled Obsidian, performed by cast members including Michaela Dietz, Audrey Bennett, Charlotte Nicdao, Aleks Sennwald, Pete Toms, Olivia Olson & others. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music service to stream/download the soundtrack. The label has previously released a mixtape for the first episode, BMO, this past summer. Adventure Time: Distant Lands  – Obsidian follows Marceline and Princess Bubblegum as they must face down demons from their past in order to defeat a reawakened enemy in the Glass Kingdom.

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‘Bob’s Burgers’ Thanksgiving & Christmas Soundtrack EPs Announced

Sub Pop Records has announced two new soundtrack EPs for the Fox animated comedy Bob’s Burgers. Both EPSs feature a selection of holiday-themed songs from the show performed by cast members including H. Jon Benjamin, John Roberts, Dan Mintz, Eugene Mirman, Kristen Schaal and Larry Murphy. Click here to stream/download the Thanksgiving EP, which was released this past Friday. The Christmas EP will be coming out this Friday, November 27. Check back on this page for the purchase link. The label has previously released a full soundtrack album featuring songs from all seasons back in 2018.

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Weekly TV Music Roundup (November 22, 2020)

Premiering today is the Netflix original film Christmas on the Square directed by Debbie Allen and starring Dolly Parton, Christine Baranski, Treat Williams, Jeanine Mason, Josh Segarra, Mary Lane Haskell and Jenifer Lewis. The film’s original music is composed by Dolly Parton (who wrote 14 original songs for the project) and conducted by Larry Blank. The holiday musical, which follows a small town “Scrooge” as she’s visited by a rhinestone-bedazzled angel who guides her on a musical journey of redemption, is now available to stream exclusively on Netflix.

Premiering tomorrow, November 23, is the FX and BBC limited series Black Narcissus developed by Amanda Coe based on the novel of the same title by Rumer Godden and starring Gemma Arterton, Alessandro Nivola, Diana Rigg, Aisling Franciosi, Jim Broadbent, Rosie Cavaliero, Patsy Ferran, Karen Bryson, Nila Aalia, Kulvinder Ghir, Chaneil Kular, Gina McKee, Soumil Malla, Dipika Kunwar,and Gianni Gonsalves. The show’s original music is composed by Anne Dudley (The Full Monty, American History X, The Crying Game, Poldark, The Hustle). Check out our previous article to learn more about the drama, which will air on Monday on FX and will also be available the following day on FX on Hulu.

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