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Weekly TV Music Roundup (October 14, 2018)

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Premiering tonight is the new CW drama Charmed developed by Jessica O’Toole & Amy Rardin and Jennie Snyder Urman and starring Melonie Diaz, Sarah Jeffery, Madeleine Mantock, Ser’Darius Blain, Ellen Tamaki and Rupert Evans. The show’s original music is composed by Will Bates (The Path, The Looming Tower, The Magicians, Nightflyers, I Origins, Another Earth). Check out our previous news article to learn more about the drama, which will air every Sunday night on The CW.

Also premiering tonight is the HBO original series Camping created by Lena Dunham & Jenni Konner and starring Jennifer Garner, David Tennant, Juliette Lewis, Arturo Del Puerto and Ione Skye. Singer/songwriter Ben Lee is composing the show’s original music. The comedy follows a not-so-happily married couple who outdoor trip to celebrate on of their birthdays is derailed by uninvited guests and forces of nature, turning the weekend into a test of marriage and friendships. The series will air every Sunday night on HBO. Visit the official show website for updates. 

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Netflix’s ‘Best.Worst.Weekend.Ever’ to Feature Music by Christopher Lennertz & Matt Bowen

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Christopher Lennertz and Matt Bowen have composed the original music for the new Netflix limited series Best.Worst.Weekend.Ever. The show is created by Robin Stein & Daniel Bryan Franklin and stars Sam Ashe Arnold, Cole Sand, Brianna Reed,Brittany Garms, Rachel Gage, Cleo Fraser, Eddie Leavy and Tiffany Espensen. The comedy revolves around a group of teenage friends who plan an epic trip to Comic-Con to meet their idol, only to get caught in one hilariously awkward predicament after another. Jeremy Garelick serves as the project’s showrunner and is executive producing the show with Stein, Franklin, Dan Cross and Dave Hoge (The Thundermans, Pair of Kings).

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Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein Scoring ITV’s ‘Butterfly’

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Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein (Stranger Things) have composed the music for the new ITV mini-series Butterfly. The show is created by Tony Marchant (Holding On, The Mark of Cain) and stars Anna Friel, Emmett J. Scanlan, Alison Steadman, Sean McGinley and Callum Booth-Ford. The 3-parter focuses on the complex relationship between two separated parents and their division in opinion over how to support their youngest child. Marchant is also executive producing the project with Nicola Shindler (Happy Valley, Last Tango in Halifax), Caroline Hollick and Adam Kemp (Our Zoo).

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Soundtrack Album for Facebook Watch’s ‘Sacred Lies’ to Be Released

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Lakeshore Records will release the first soundtrack album for the Facebook Watch original series Sacred Lies. The album features selections of the original music from the show composed by Sonya Belousova & Giona Ostinelli (The Mist, Reprisal, Carnage Park, Darling). The soundtrack will be released digitally on October 26, 2018 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Sacred Lies is developed by Raelle Tucker and stars Elena Kampouris, Kevin Carroll, Kiana Madeira, Ryan Robbins and Toby Huss. The drama based on Stephanie Oakes’ novel The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly is modern reimagining of the classic Brothers Grimm fairytale The Handless Maiden and follows the journey of a girl who escapes a mysterious cult and finds herself in juvenile detention.

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Soundtrack Album for FX’s ‘Trust’ to Be Released

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Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the FX limited series Trust. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by James Lavelle of the British music collective UNKLE. The soundtrack will be released digitally on November 9, 2018 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Trust is created by Simon Beaufoy and stars Donald Sutherland, Michael Esper, Hilary Swank, Harris Dickinson, Brendan Fraser, Anna Chancellor, Norbert Leo Butz, Charlotte Riley and Luca Marinelli. Danny Boyle has directed the first couple of episodes of the drama, which tells the story of John Paul Getty III, heir to the Getty oil fortune.

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Soundtrack Album for Netflix’s ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ to Be Released

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Paramount Music will release a soundtrack album for the Netflix horror series The Haunting of Hill House. The album features the show’s original music composed by The Newton Brothers (Oculus, Ouija: Origin of Evil, Extinction, Life of Crime, The Bye Bye Man), including the composers’ main titles theme. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, October 12 and will be available to download on Amazon. The Haunting of Hill House is written and directed by Mike Flanagan and stars Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, Henry Thomas, Elizabeth Reaser, Kate Siegel, Timothy Hutton and Mckenna Grace.

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The CW’s ‘Charmed’ Reboot’ to Feature Original Score by Will Bates

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Will Bates is scoring the new CW drama Charmed. The show is developed by Jessica O’Toole & Amy Rardin and Jennie Snyder Urman (Jane the Virgin) based on the series, which premiered in 1998 on The WB, and stars Melonie Diaz, Sarah Jeffery, Madeleine Mantock, Ser’Darius Blain, Ellen Tamaki and Rupert Evans. The series follows three sisters in a college town who are stunned to discover they are witches and must stand together to fight the everyday and supernatural battles that all modern witches must face: from vanquishing powerful demons to toppling the patriarchy.

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‘Black Earth Rising’ Soundtrack Album Released

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Dubois Records has released a soundtrack album for the BBC and Netflix series Black Earth Rising. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Martin Phipps (Woman in Gold, Victoria, Harry Brown, War & Peace, Victoria) and additional music by Patrick Jonsson. The soundtrack is now available to download on iTunes, where you can also check out audio samples. Black Earth Rising is written and directed by Hugo Blick and stars Michaela Cole, John Goodman, Noma Dumezweni, Harriet Walter, Tamara Tunie, Lucian Msamati and Abena Ayivor.

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Marcelo Zarvos Scoring HBO’s ‘What’s My Name – Muhammad Ali’

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Marcelo Zarvos (Fences, Wonder, The Good Shepherd) has recently scored the upcoming HBO documentary What’s My Name – Muhammad Ali. The 2-parter is directed by Antoine Fuqua (Training Day, The Equalizer, The Magnificent Seven) and explores the boxing legend’s greatest triumphs and comebacks through archival footage and never-before-seen photos and footage from private collections of the Ali family and others. Fuqua is also producing the project with LeBron James & Maverick Carter (Warriors of Liberty City), Jamie Salter (Elvis Presley: The Searcher), Paul Wachter, Bill Gerber (A Star Is Born, Gran Torino) and Glen Zipper (Undefeated).

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Mac Quayle to Score Netflix’s ‘The Politician’

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Mac Quayle confirmed in a recent interview with Score It Magazine that he is scoring the upcoming Netflix original series The Politician. The show is created by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk & Ian Brennan (Glee, Scream Queens) and stars Ben Platt, Barbra Streisand, Gwyneth Paltrow, Zoey Deutch, Lucy Boynton, Laura Dreyfuss and Rahne Jones. The comedy revolves around a wealthy young man from Santa Barbara with political aspirations. Murphy, Falchuk & Brennan are also executive producing the Fox 21 Television Studios production.

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