Bennett Salvay has signed on to score the upcoming FX comedy Partners. The show stars Kelsey Grammer and Martin Lawrence as two Chicago lawyers from vastly different backgrounds who unexpectedly meet in court as they each face a personal crisis. Telma Hopkins, Rory O’Malley, McKaley Miller, Edi Patterson and Danièle Watts are co-starring. Bob Boyett and Robert Horn (Good Advice) serve as the series’ showrunners. They are also executive producing the Lionsgate Television production with Grammer, Lawrence, Brian Sher & Stella Bulochnikov (Boss), Michael Green and Sam Maydew.
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Nathan Barr Working on ‘True Blood’ Musical
Nathan Barr revealed at last night’s Season 7 premiere of True Blood in Hollywood that he is working on a musical adaptatation of the HBO drama. The composer who has been scoring the show since the pilot episode in 2008 pitched the project to creator and executive producer Alan Ball. The musical will revolve around the series’s lead character of Sookie Stackhouse, portrayed in the show by Anna Paquin. Stephen Moyer who plays Bill Compton already helped Barr to put together some samples to present to HBO and Ball. The composer who is also scoring FX’s The Americans and Netflix’s Hemlock Grove hopes to present a workshop version of the musical in 2015.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (June 15, 2014)
Premiering tonight in the U.S. is the BBC mini-series The Escape Artist created and written by David Wolstencroft and starring David Tennant, Toby Kebbell, Sophie Okonedo and Ashley Jensen. The drama’s music is composed by Nicholas Hooper (Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince). The two-parter about a talented junior barrister who specializes in spiriting people out of tight legal corners will air as part of PBS’ Masterpiece series tonight and on June 22. To learn more about the series, visit PBS’ official website.
Tony Morales Scoring Lifetime’s ‘Outlaw Prophet: Warren Jeffs’
Tony Morales is composing the score for the upcoming Lifetime original movie Outlaw Prophet: Warren Jeffs. The film is directed by Gabriel Range (Death of a President) and stars Tony Goldwyn, Martin Landau, Molly Parker and Joey King. The movie tells the story of the fundamentalist Mormon leader who spent more than a year on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List for unlawful flight on charges related to his alleged arrangement of illegal marriages involving underage girls. Range also co-wrote the teleplay with Art Monterastelli (The Hunted), Steve Kornacki (Boardwalk Empire), Alyson Evans and Bryce Kass. Craig Zadan & Neil Meron (Hairspray, The Bucket List, Footloose) are executive producing the Sony Pictures Television production with Judith Verno (Lizzie Borden Took An Ax).
‘Fargo’ TV Series Soundtrack Details
The details of the soundtrack album for the critically acclaimed FX original series Fargo have been revealed. The album features selections from the show’s original music composed by Jeff Russo (Power, Necessary Roughness, About Cherry). The soundtrack will be released on July 1, 2014 by Sony Masterworks and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check out audio clips after the jump. Fargo is created by Noah Hawley inspired Joel & Ethan Coen’s feature of the same title. The show stars Martin Freeman, Billy Bob Thornton, Allison Tolman, Colin Hanks, Oliver Platt, Bon Odenkirk, Kate Walsh, Glenn Howerton and Joey King. The final episode of the show’s first season will air next Tuesday, June 17 on FX.
Christopher Willis to Score Disney’s ‘The Lion Guard’
Christopher Willis has been tapped to score Disney Television Animation’s upcoming movie and series The Lion Guard. The projects are developed by Ford Riley (Special Agent Oso) and will continue the story introduced 20 years ago in the studio’s animated classic The Lion King. The movie and show will center on the second-born cub of Simba and Nala as he assumes the role of leader of the Lion Guard, a group of the bravest and brightest tasked with preserving the Pride Lands. Riley also serves as an executive producer and Howy Parkins (Jake and the Never Land Pirates) is the director. Willis has previously scored Disney’s Mickey Mouse Shorts, for which he received his first Annie Award earlier this year.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (June 8, 2014)
Premiering on Tuesday, June 10, is the new ABC Family drama Chasing Life starring Italia Ricci, Mary Page Keller, Haley Ramm and Richard Brancatisano. The show’s original music is composed by Stephen Endelman (Home of the Brave, Rob the Mob, Flirting With Disaster). To learn more about the series, which follows an aspiring journalist who is trying to work her way up the ladder at a Boston newspaper and finds out from her uncle that she has cancer, check out our previous news article. Chasing Life will air every Tuesday night on ABC Family.
‘Game of Thrones’ Season 4 Soundtrack Details
The details of the fourth soundtrack album for HBO’s hit series Game of Thrones have been revealed. The soundtrack features selections from the original score of the show’s fourth season composed by Ramin Djawadi (Iron Man, Pacific Rim, Clash of the Titans). Also included is the cover version of the song The Rains of Castamere by the Icelandic band Sigur Rós, which was previously released as a single. The soundtrack will be released digitally on June 10, 2014 and physically on July 1 by WaterTower Music. To pre-order the CD, visit Amazon. Audio clips are embedded after the jump. The final episodes of the fourth season of Game of Thrones currently air Sunday nights on HBO.
Deborah Lurie to Score ABC’s ‘Astronaut Wives Club’
Deborah Lurie has been hired to score the upcoming ABC drama Astronaut Wives Club. The show is created by Stephanie Savage (Gossip Girl, Hart of Dixie, Endless Love) and stars JoAnna Garcia Swisher, Odette Annable, Zoe Boyle, Azure Parsons and Desmond Harrington. The 10-episode limited series is based on the book by Lily Koppel and tells the true story of the women who stood beside some of the biggest heroes in American history during the height of the space race. Savage is executive producing the Fake Empire, Groundswell Productions and ABC Studios production with Josh Schwartz (The O.C., Len Goldstein (The Carrie Daries), Michael London (Sideways, The Illusionist, The Visitor) and Janice Williams. Nick Cassavetes (The Notebook, The Other Woman) is directing the pilot episode.
Syfy’s ‘Dominion’ to Feature Music by Christopher Young and Jeff Rona
Christopher Young has composed the music for the pilot of the new Syfy original series Dominion. Jeff Rona is currently scoring the other episodes of the first season of the show created by Scott Stewart and starring Christopher Egan, Tom Wisdom, Roxanne McKee, Alan Dale, Anthony Stewart Head and Luke Allen-Gale. The supernatural action drama is based on characters from Stewart’s 2010 film Legion and is set 25 years after the events of the movie and picking up in the aftermath of a catastrophic war between an army of angels and mankind that has transformed the world.