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Reel Gold Records will release the original song Just Getting Started from the HBO documentary If You’re Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast. The track is written by Academy Award winners Alan & Marilyn Bergman (Yentl, The Way We Were) and Dave Grusin (The Milagro Beanfield War, The Firm, On Golden Pond) and performed by Alan Bergman with Grusin & Band. The song will […]

Daniel Pemberton has recently composed the music for the upcoming Black Mirror episode USS Callister. The episode is directed by Toby Haynes (Doctor Who, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell) and stars Jesse Plemons, Cristin Milioti, Jimmi Simpson, Michaela Coel and Billy Magnussen. The show’s creator Charlie Brooker wrote the script with William Bridges (SuperBob). No plot details have been announced yet. Pemberton follows composers such as Clint […]

RCA Records will release a new soundtrack album for the Netflix original series The Get Down. The album features selections from the show’s original score composed by Elliott Wheeler (Restraint). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, September 8. The download link will be added to this article over night. The label has previously released two soundtracks for Part I and Part II of the […]

Following this past Sunday’s season finale, the full details of the two soundtrack albums for Showtime’s Twin Peaks limited event series have been revaled. The Twin Peaks (Limited Event Series Soundtrack) album features the show’s original score composed by Angelo Badalamenti (Blue Velvet, The Straight Story, Mulholland Drive), as well as tracks by Chromatics, Johnny Jewel and Muddy Magnolias. The Twin […]

Lin-Manuel Miranda has recorded a new version of The Magic School Bus theme song for the upcoming Netflix original series The Magic School Bus Rides Again. The track was written by Peter Lurye and performed by Little Richard for the hit show from the 90s. Listen to the cover featured in the trailer for the new reboot after […]

Solomon Grey (aka Tom Kingston and Joe Wilson) are composing the original score for the upcoming BBC drama The Last Post. The show is created by Peter Moffat (Criminal Justice, Silk, Undercover) and stars Jessica Raine‎, Jessie Buckley, Stephen Campbell Moore, Ben Miles and Jeremy Neumark Jones. The drama is set in the mid-1960s and centers on the lives of a Royal Military […]

Premiering on Friday, September 8, is the Netflix original movie #realityhigh directed by Fernando Lebrija and Nesta Marlee Cooper, Kate Walsh, John Michael Higgins, Keith Powers and Anne Winters. The film’s original music is composed by Jonathan Zalben & Ruwanga Samath (Flock of Dudes). The movie follows a nerdy high schooler who finally attracts the […]

Netflix announced today that Glen Ballard is composing original music for the upcoming Netflix original series The Eddy. The musical drama is creaed by Jack Thorne (National Treasure, This is England) and revolves around a club in contemporary multicultural Paris, its owner, the house band, and the chaotic city that surrounds them. The show will be shot in France and feature dialogue in […]

Shout Factory Records has released a soundtrack album for the Netflix original series Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return. The album features the songs from the series by cast members including Jonah Ray, Felicia Day, Hampton Yount, Baron Vaughn, Rebecca Hanson, Patton Oswalt, Neil Patrick Harris, Mark Hamill & more, as well as several tracks by Paul and Storm and the comedy’s […]

‘The Simpsons’ Fires Composer Alf Clausen

Posted: August 30, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring Assignments
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Variety is reporting that Alf Clausen has been fired from the Fox animated series The Simpsons. The composer who is also known for his music for ALF and Moonlighting has been scoring over 560 episodes of the show since the second season in 1990. Clausen received two Emmy Awards for his work on the series and another 21 Emmy nominations between 1992 and […]