Category: TV Scoring Assignments

Weekly TV Music Roundup (February 19, 2017)

February 19, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring Assignments 0 comments

Tags: Amazon, Big Little Lies, CBS, CMT, Crashing, Dave Porter, David Buckley, Doubt, HBO, Lyle Workman, NBC, Patriot, Sean Callery, Sun Records, The Blacklist: Redemption, The Good Fight

Premiering tonight is the HBO original mini-series Big Little Lies directed by Jean-Marc Vallee (Dallas Buyers Club, Wild), executive produced by David E. Kelley and starring Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Shailene Woodley, Laura Dern, Zoë Kravitz, Alexander Skårsgard, Adam Scott, James Tupper and Jeffrey Nordling. The show doesn’t feature any original score. Susan Jacobs serves as the project’s music supervisor. To learn more about the drama, which is based on the book of the same name by Liane Moriarty, visit the official show website.

Also premiering tonight is the HBO original series Crashing executive produced by Judd Apatow and Pete Holmes who also stars in the show alongside Lauren Lapkus, George Basil, T.J. Miller, Artie Lange, Dave Attell, Hannibal Burress, Sarah Silverman, Gina Gershon. The comedy’s original music is composed by Lyle Workman (The 40-Year Old Virgin, Superbad, Love, Forgetting Sarah Marshall). To learn more about the series, which follows a comedian who, when his wife leaves him, has nowhere to stay but on the couches of New York’s finest comics, visit the official show website.

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Soundtrack EP for Amazon’s ‘Patriot’ to Be Released

February 17, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music Albums 2 comments

Tags: Amazon, Michael Dorman, Patriot, Soundtrack, Steve Conrad

Amazon Content Services will release a soundtrack for the new Amazon original series Patriot. The EP features the songs from the show performed by actor Michael Dorman. Also included is Vashti Bunyan’s Train Song as features in the pilot episode. The soundtrack will be released digitally on February 24, 2017 and is now available for pre-order here. Patriot is.created by Steve Conrad (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Weather Man) and stars Dorman, alongside Terry O’Quinn, Michael Chernus, Kathleen Munroe, Aliette Opheim and Kurtwood Smith. The series follows the complicated life of an intelligence officer whose latest assignment is to prevent Iran from going nuclear.

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Jeff Rona to Score TNT’s ‘Claws’

February 16, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring Assignments 0 comments

Tags: Claws, Jeff Rona, TNT

Jeff Rona is composing the score for the upcoming TNT original series Claws. The show is created by Eliot Laurence (Welcome to Me) and stars Niecy Nash, Carrie Preston, Harold Perrineau, Jenn Lyon, Judy Reyes, Jack Kesy, Karrueche Tran, Kevin Rankin and Jason Antoon. The comedy drama chronicles the rise of five diverse and treacherous manicurists working at the Nail Artisan of Manatee County salon in South Florida. Rashida Jones & Will McCormack (Celeste & Jesse Forever) are executive producing the project for La Train Train, alongside showrunner Janine Sherman Barrois (Criminal Minds, ER).

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Soundtrack Released for Channel 4 & Hulu’s ‘National Treasure’

February 14, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music Albums 0 comments

Tags: Cristobal Tapia de Veer, Hulu, National Treasure, score, Soundtrack

Free Run Artists has released a soundtrack album for the Channel 4 mini-series National Treasure. The album features selections from the show’s original music composed by Cristobal Tapia de Veer (Utopia, The Girl with All the Gifts, Humans). The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio samples. National Treasure is created by Jack Thorne (A Long Way Down) and stars Robbie Coltrane, Julie Walters and Andrea Riseborough. The 4-parter follows one half of a popular, long-running comedy double act who is thrown into chaos when he is accused of historic sexual abuse.

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Soundtrack Details for FX’s ‘Legion’

February 14, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music Albums 0 comments

Tags: FX, Jeff Russo, Legion, Noah Hawley, score, Soundtrack

Lakeshore Records has announced a soundtrack album for the FX original series Legion. The album features the show’s original music composed by Emmy Award nominee Jeff Russo (Fargo, The Night Of, Power). The soundtrack will be released digitally on February 24 and physically on March 24. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD. A vinyl release is also in the works. Legion is created by Noah Hawley (Fargo) based on the Marvel Comics and stars Dan Stevens, Rachel Keller, Jean Smart, Aubrey Plaza, Jeremie Harris, Amber Midthunder, Katie Aselton and Bill Irwin. The series centers on a troubled young man struggling with mental illness who encounters a fellow patient, when he is confronted with the possibility that the voices he hears and the visions he sees might be real.

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Sean Callery Scoring CBS’ ‘Doubt’

February 13, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring Assignments 0 comments

Tags: CBS, Doubt, Joan Rater, Sean Callery, Tony Phelan

Sean Callery is scoring the new CBS drama Doubt. The show is created by Tony Phelan & Joan Rater (Grey’s Anatomy) and stars Katherine Heigl, Steven Pasquale, Elliott Gould, Dulé Hill, Laverne Cox, Dreama Walker and Kobi Libii. The series follows a successful defense lawyer at a boutique firm who becomes romantically involved with a client who may or may not be guilty of a brutal crime. Phel and Rater are also executive producing the CBS Television production with Adam Bernstein (Fargo), Carl Beverly & Sarah Timberman (Elementary, Unforgettable).

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Songs from Fox’s ‘Son of Zorn’ Released

February 13, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music Albums 0 comments

Tags: Fox, Leo Birenberg, Son of Zorn, Soundtrack

Fox Music has released four songs from last night’s episode, The Quest for Craig, of the Fox comedy Son of Zorn. The tracks are written by the show’s composer Leo Birenberg (Red Army, Big Time in Hollywood, FL). Check out the songs I Saw a Stranger, Sing You a Story, Whiskey & Zorn and Zorn Is at the Party, which are all available as to download as digital singles on Amazon. Son of Zorn is created by Reed Agnew & Eli Jorne and stars Johnny Pemberton, Cheryl Hines, Tim Meadows and Jason Sudeikis as the voice of Zorn.

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Weekly TV Music Roundup (February 12, 2017)

February 12, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring Assignments 0 comments

Tags: BBC America, Bleeding Fingers Music, Bobby Tahouri, Britney Ever After, Danny Lux, Girlfriend's Day, Hans Zimmer, Jacob Shea, Jasha Klebe, Lifetime, Netflix, Planet Earth II

Premiering on Tuesday, February 14, is the Netflix original movie Girlfriend’s Day directed by Michael Stephenson and starring Bob Odenkirk, Amber Tamblyn, Natasha Lyonne. The film’s original music is composed by Bobby Tahouri (Husk, Across the Hall, Rise of the Tomb Raider video game). Girlfriend’s Day follows an unemployed greeting card writer must who gets caught up in a conspiracy and must create the perfect card for a new holiday to save his skin. The comedy will be available to stream on Netflix on Tuesday.

Premiering in the U.S. on Saturday, February 18, is the BBC Earth documentary series Planet Earth narrated by David Attenborough, executive produced by Michael Gunton and produced by Tom Hugh-Jones. Hans Zimmer (Gladiator, The Dark Knight, The Lion King, Inception) has composed the show’s main theme. Jacob Shea (Through the Wormhole) and Jasha Klebe (Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom) have written the score for Bleeding Fingers Music. Silva Screen Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composers’ score. Check out our previous article for the full album details.

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‘From Dusk Till Dawn’ Season 3 Soundtrack Released

February 11, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music Albums 0 comments

Tags: Carl Thiel, El Rey, From Dusk Till Dawn, Robert Rodriguez, score, Soundtrack

Chingon Music has released a new soundtrack album for the El Rey Network original series From Dusk Till Dawn. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s third season by Carl Thiel (Last Man Standing, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, Shorts). Also included are tracks by Robert Rodriguez (Sin City, Spy Kids, Once Upon a Time Mexico), Mark Del Castillo and actress Madison Davenport. The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio clips. The label has previously released a soundtrack featuring music from the show’s first season.

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Theme Song for Comedy Central’s ‘Detroiters’ Released

February 10, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music Albums 3 comments

Tags: Comedy Central, Detroiters, Distinct Life

Comedy Central has released the theme song for the cable networks’s new original series Detroiters. The song written/produced by Distinct Life and performed by 6aamm and is now available to download as a digital single on Amazon. Detroiters is created by Sam Richardson, Tim Robinson, Zach Kanin & Joe Kelly and stars Richardson and Robinson, alongside guest stars including Pat Vern Harris, Lailani Ledesma, Mort Crim, Shawntay Dalon, Andre Belue, Christopher Powell and Jason Sudeikis who also serves as an executive producer. The comedy, which is also executive produced by Lorne Michaels, revolves around two local ad men who make low budget commercials in Detroit.

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