Category: TV Scoring Assignments

Weekly TV Music Roundup (December 16, 2018)

Premiering on Friday, December 21 in the U.S. is the British mini-series Vanity Fair developed by Gwyneth Hughes and starring Olivia Cooke, Tom Bateman, Suranne Jones, Michael Palin, Johnny Flynn and Martin Clunes. The show’s original music is composed by show’s original music composed by Isobel Waller-Bridge (Fleabag, The Split, Vita and Virginia). Decca Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score, as well as songs by Afterhere, Jade Bird, Paloma Faith & others earlier this fall when the series premiered in the UK on ITV. Click here for the full album details. The drama is making its U.S. debut on Amazon Prime.

Also premiering on Friday is DreamWorks Animation’s new Netflix original series 3Below: Tales of Arcadia created by Guillermo del Toro and starring Diego Luna, Tatiana Maslany, Nick Offerman, Glenn Close, Cole Sand, Steven Yeun, Emile Hirsch and Kelsey Grammer. Jeff Danna (The Good Dinosaur, The Boondock Saints, Storks, Tyrant) is composing the show’s original music. Check out our scoring assignment announcement to learn more about the series, which marks the second show in del Toro’s Tales of Arcadia trilogy following Trollhunters, and which will be available to stream exclusively on Netflix.

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Soundtrack Album for ‘Fortitude’ Season 3 to Be Released

SATV will release a new soundtrack album for the Sky Atlantic series Fortitude. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s third season composed by Ben Frost (Dark, Sleeping Beauty, The Deep, Super Dark Times). The Fortitude III soundtrack will be released digitally on December 21 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Mute Records has previously released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score from the first two seasons of the psychological thriller. Fortitude is created by Simon Donald and stars Richard Dormer, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, Mia Jexen, Sofie Gråbøl, Alexandra Moen, Sienna Guillory, Luke Treadaway, Darren Boyd, Michael Gambon and Dennis Quaid.

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Soundtrack Album for Amazon’s ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ Season 2 to Be Released

Universal Music will release a new soundtrack album for the Amazon original series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. The album features a selection of songs from the show’s second season, including tracks by Barbra Streisand, Dean Martin, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra & Keely Smith, Ella Fitzgerald, Blossom Dearie & more. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, December 14 and will be available to download on Amazon. The label has previously released a soundtrack album featuring songs from the show’s first season. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is created by Amy Sherman-Palladino and stars Rachel Brosnahan, Alex Borstein, Tony Shalhoub, Michael Zegen and Marin Hinkle. 

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Soundtrack Album for Syfy’s ‘Nightflyers’ to Be Released

Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the Syfy original series Nightflyers. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Will Bates (The Path, The Looming Tower, The Magicians, I Origins, Hot Summer Nights). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, December 14 and will be available to download on Amazon. Nightflyers is developed by Jeff Buhler based on George R.R. Martin’s novella and the 1987 film of the same title and stars Eoin Macken, David Ajala, Sam Strike, Maya Eshet, Angus Sampson, Jodie Turner-Smith, Brian F. O’Byrne and Gretchen Mol.

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Murray Gold Scoring HBO’s & BBC’s ‘Gentleman Jack’

Murray Gold (Doctor Who, Torchwood, Death at a Funeral, A Very English Scandal) is composing the original music for the upcoming HBO and BBC series Gentleman Jack. The drama is created by Sally Wainwright (To Walk Invisible, Happy Valley) and stars Suranne Jones, Sophie Rundle, Gemma Whelan, Timothy West, Jeremy Lister and Gemma Jones. The 8-parter is set in 1832 West Yorkshire, England and centers on landowner and industrialist Anne Lister’s attempt to revitalize her inherited home, Shibdhen Hall.

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CBS’ ‘Fam’ to Feature Music by Gabriel Mann

Gabriel Mann (Modern Family, Rectify, Rosewood) is scoring the upcoming CBS comedy Fam. The show is created by Corinne Kingsbury and stars Nina Dobrev, Tone Bell, Odessa Adlon, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Sheryl Lee Ralph. The series revolves around a woman whose vision of a perfect life with her adoring fiancé and his wonderful family is radically altered when her 16-year-old, out-of-control half-sister unexpectedly comes to live with her.

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Edmund Butt Scoring ITV’s & Sundance Now’s ‘Cheat’

Edmund Butt is currently scoring the upcoming ITV and Sundance Now original series Cheat. The show is created by Gaby Hull and stars Katherine Kelly, Molly Windsor, Tom Goodman-Hill, Lorraine Ashbourne,Peter Firth and Adrian Edmondson. The 4-parter follows a university professor who starts a dangerous relationship with her student and is thrust into a case of academic deception. Louise Hooper is directing all four episodes of the psychological thriller, which is executive produced by Harry & Jack Williams (The Missing, Liar) and Christoper Aird (Troy: Fall of a City, Call the Midwife).

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Weekly TV Music Roundup (December 9, 2018)

Premiering tomorrow, December 10, is the Freeform original movie No Sleep ‘Til Christmas co-written and directed by Phil Traill and starring Dave & Odette Annable, Charles Michael Davis. The film’s original music is composed by Jeff Garber (Lopez, Are You the One?). The holiday comedy centers on a bartender and a businesswoman who find they only have one thing in common: insomnia. Click here to watch the movie’s trailer.

Premiering on Friday, December 14 is the Australian Netflix original series Tidelands created by Stephen M. Irwin & Leigh McGrath and starring Charlotte Best, Elsa Pataky and Marco Pigossi. The show’s original music is composed by Matteo Zingales (99 Homes, Fahrenheit 451, The Hunter). The drama  revolves around an ex-con’s return to her hometown of Orphelin Bay that blows the lid off a generations-long conspiracy of silence around murder, drugs and Sirens. The show’s full first season will be available to stream worldwide exclusively on Netflix.

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Bear McCreary Scoring Nacho Vigalondo-Directed ‘Into the Dark’ Episode ‘Pooka!’

Bear McCreary (10 Cloverfield Lane, The Walking Dead, Outlander, Battlestar Galactica) has composed the music for the third episode of the Hulu anthology series Into the Dark. The episode, entitled Pooka!, is directed by Nacho Vigalondo (Timecrimes) and stars Nyasha Hatendi, Latarsha Rose, Jon Daly, Dale Dickey, Jonny Berryman and Diane Sellers. The Christmas-themed episode follows an actor who is hired to play a life-size version of the holiday’s hottest toy: the pooka doll. Vigalondo is also executive producing the Blumhouse Television production with Jason Blum (Get Out, Halloween), John Hegeman, Gerard Olson (who also wrote the script), Nahikari Ipina and Alexa Faigen.

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Soundtrack Album for Crackle’s ‘StartUp’ Released

Madison Gate Records has released the first soundtrack album for the Crackle original series StartUp. The album features selections of the original music from the show composed by Tristan Clopet who scored the show’s second and third season. Also included is a track by Chris Hajian (The Infiltrator) who composed the music for Season 1. The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio clips. StartUp is created by Ben Ketai and stars Martin Freeman, Adam Brody, Otmara Marrero, Edi Gathegi, Karissa Montaner, Ron Perlman and Addison Timlin. The drama explores the launch of GenCoin, a potentially revolutionary idea for an unregulated digital currency, and the deadly tech war that ignites around the creation of the algorithm.

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