Vincent Jones and Dave Kushner have been hired to score the upcoming animated comedy F Is for Family. The show is created by stand-up comedian Bill Burr & Michael Price (The Simpsons) and features the voices of Burr himself, Laura Dern, Justin Long and Haley Reinhart. The series is based on Burr’s own childhood and follows a lower middle class family in the 1970s. Burr and Price are also executive producing the Gaumont International Television and Wild West Television production with Vince Vaughn & Peter Billingsley (Couples Retreat, Dinner for Five).
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‘Better Call Soundtrack’ Details
Madison Gate Records will release a soundtrack album for the AMC original series Better Call Saul. The album features a selection of the songs featured in the first season of the show by artists including Bobby Bare and The Hillsiders, Henry Mancini, Esquivel, Galt Macdermot, The Ink Spots, Al Kooper & Stephen Stills, Junior Brown, The Dave Brubeck Quartet & more. Also included is the series’ main title theme by Little Barrie. The soundtrack will be released on November 6, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Better Call Saul created by Vince Gilligan & Peter Gould and starring Bob Odenkirk focuses on the character of attorney Saul Goodman from Breaking Bad.
Charlie Clouser to Score Syfy’s ‘Childhood’s End’
Charlie Clouser revealed on Twitter that he is composing the score for the upcoming Syfy original mini-series Childhood’s End. The show is based on the sci-fi novel by Arthur C. Clarke (2001: A Space Odyssey) of the same title and stars Charles Dance, Mike Vogel, Daisy Betts, Yael Stone, Julian McMahon, Osy Ikhile and Colm Meaney. The 6-parter centers on a peaceful alien invasion of Earth by the mysterious Overlords, whose arrival ends all war and turns the planet into a near-utopia. Matthew Graham (Life on Mars) has developed the series and is executive producing the Universal Cable production with Akiva Goldsman (A Beautiful Mind, I Am Legend, I, Robot) and Michael De Luca (Moneyball, Captain Phillips).
Weekly TV Music Roundup (October 4, 2015)
Premiering in the U.S. tonight is the British TV series Home Fires starring Samantha Bond, Francesca Annis, Ed Stoppard, Ruth Gemmell, Claire Rushbrook, Frances Grey, Clare Calbraith and Rachel Hurd-Wood. The show’s original music is composed by Samuel Sim (Awake). Home Fires based on the book Jambusters by Julie Summers is set during World War II and follows a group of inspirational women in a rural Cheshire community. The ITV Studios production will air as part of PBS’ Masterpiece on Sunday nights. Visit the official show website for more information.
Alex Wurman to Score Amazon’s ‘Patriot’
Alex Wurman has been hired to score the upcoming Amazon Studios pilot Patriot. The show is created by Steve Conrad (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Weather Man, The Pursuit of Happyness) and stars Michael Dorman, Terry O’Quinn, Michael Chernus, Kathleen Munroe, Aliette Opheim and Kurtwood Smith. The political thriller series follows the complicated life of an intelligence officer whose latest assignment is to prevent Iran from going nuclear. Conrad is also directing the pilot episode and is executive producing the project with Gil Bellows (Temple Grandin), Glen Ficara & John Requa (Crazy Stupid Love, I Love You Phillip Morris) and Charlie Gogolak (Focus).
Mark Kilian to Score ABC’s ‘Wicked City’
Mark Kilian has been hired to score the upcoming ABC drama Wicked City. The show is created by Steven Baigelman (Get on Up, Feeling Minnesota) and stars Ed Westwick, Erika Christensen, Jeremy Sisto, Taissa Farmiga, Gabriel Luna, Karolina Wydra, Evan Ross, Anne Winters and Jaime Ray Newman. The series follows a unique case set in a noteworthy era of L.A. history, starting with a murder case from 1982 centered on the rock ’n’ roll, cocaine-infused revelry of the Sunset Strip.
Showtime’s ‘The Affair’ Soundtrack Details
Varese Sarabande has announced the details of the soundtrack album for the Showtime original series The Affair. The album features selections of the show’s original score composed by Marcelo Zarvos (Ray Donovan, Enough Said, The Good Shepherd, The Door in the Floor, The Big C). The soundtrack will be released on October 23, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The Affair is created by Hagai Lemi & Sarah Treem and stars Dominic West, Ruth Wilson, Maura Tierney and Joshua Jackson. The drama’s first season is now available on DVD and the second season will premiere this Sunday, October 4.
ITV’s ‘The Frankenstein Chronicles’ to Feature Music by Harry Escott & Roger Goula
Harry Escott and Roger Goula are composing the music for ITV’s upcoming drama series The Frankenstein Chronicles. The show is created by Benjamin Ross (RKO 281, The Young Poisoner’s Handbook) & Barry Langford and stars Sean Bean, Anna Maxwell Martin, Charlie Creed-Miles, Ed Stoppard, Elliot Cowan, Hugh O’Conor, Joe Tucker, Kate Dickie, Lalor Roddy, Patrick Fitzsymons and Richie Campbell. The six-part series follows an inspector who investigates a series of crimes in 19th Century London, which may have been committed by a scientist intent on re-animating the dead.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (September 27, 2015)
Premiering tonight is the new ABC drama Quantico created by Joshua Safran and starring Priyanka Chopra, Jake McLaughlin, Aunjanue Ellis, Yasmine Al Massri, Johanna Braddy, Tate Ellington and Graham Rogers. The show’s original music is composed by Joel J. Richard (John Wick, The Andromeda Strain, Ravenswood). To learn more about the series, which follows a group of young FBI recruits, who battle their way through training at the Quantico base in Virginia, check out our previous article. Quantico will air Sunday nights on ABC.
Also premiering tonight on ABC is the new drama Blood & Oil created by Josh Pate & Rodes Fishburne and starring Don Johnson, Chace Crawford, Rebecca Rittenhouse, Delroy Lindo, Scott Michael Foster, India de Beaufort, Amber Valletta, Adan Canto, Yani Gellman and Caitlin Carver. Mark Isham (Once Upon a Time, American Crime, Crash, A River Runs Through It) is composing the show’s original music. To learn more about Blood & Oil, check out our scoring assignment announcement.
Jeff Beal Returning for ‘Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise’
Jeff Beal is composing the music for the upcoming TV movie Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise. The film stars Tom Selleck in the title role, alongside William Devane, Gloria Reuben, Leslie Hope and Luke Perry. The tenth installment in the Jesse Stone series based the Robert B. Parker book series follows Stone as he investigates another murder in Boston. Robert Harmon (Nowhere to Run, Highwaymen, They) is directing the detective drama and Selleck is also executive producing the project with Michael Brandman (Monte Walsh).