20th Century Fox TV Records has released the main theme for the Fox hit drama Sleepy Hollow. The theme is composed by Brian Tyler (Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World, Fast Five). The track is now available to download as a single on iTunes. A full soundtrack album featuring selections from the show’s score composed by Tyler and Robert Lydecker is reportedly in the works. Sleepy Hollow is created by Alex Kurtzman & Bob Orci, Len Wiseman & Phillip Iscove and stars Tom Mison, Nicole Beharie, Orlando Jones and Katia Winter. The show follows Ichabod Crane as he partners with Sleepy Hollow’s Detective Abbie Archer to solve the mysteries of a town ravaged by the battle between good and evil.
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Weekly TV Music Roundup (December 8, 2013)
Premiering tonight on the History, Lifetime and A&E networks is the mini-series Bonnie & Clyde directed by Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy) and starring Emile Hirsch, Holliday Grainger, Holly Hunter, William Hurt, Sarah Hyland, Elizabeth Reaser, Lane Garrison, Austin Hebert and Dale Dickey. The music of the two-parter is composed by John Debney (The Passion of the Christ, Elf, Hatfield & McCoys). La-La Land Records will release a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s music on December 10. Check out our previous article for the full album details and more information about the series. Also click here to listen to a tracks from the score.
Mark Kilian to Score ABC’s ‘Killer Women’
Mark Kilian is composing the music for the upcoming ABC drama Killer Women. The show is created by Hannah Shakespeare (The Raven, Loverboy) and stars Tricia Helfer, Marc Blucas, Marta Milans, Michael Trucco and Alex Fernandez. The series centers on the only woman in the notoriously male Texas Rangers – committed to finding the truth and seeing justice served. Shakespeare is also executive producing the ABC Studios production with Sofía Vergara (Modern Family), Martin Campbell (Casino Royale, The Mask of Zorro), Ed Zuckerman (Blue Bloods, Law & Order),, Ben Silverman (The Office, The Tudors), and Luis Balaguer. Killer Woman is set to premiere on January 7, 2014 and will air every Tuesday night on ABC.
Reinhold Heil to Score Syfy’s ‘Helix’
Reinhold Heil has been hired to score the upcoming Syfy original series Helix. The drama is created by Cameron Porsandeh and stars Billy Campbell, Hiroyuki Sanada, Kyra Zagorsky, Jordan Hayes, Catherine Lemieux, Neil Napier and Mark Ghanime. The show follows a team of scientists from the Centers for Disease Control who travel to a high-tech research facility in the Arctic to investigate a possible disease outbreak, only to find themselves pulled into a life-and-death struggle that may hold the key to mankind’s salvation or total annihilation. Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar Galactica, Outlander), Steven Maeda (Lost, The X-Files), and Lynda Obst (Contact) are executive producing the Sony Pictures Television and NBC Universal production.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (December 1, 2013)
Premiering on Wednesday, December 4, is the new TNT original series Mob City created by Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption, The Walking Dead) and starring Jon Bernthal, Ed Burns, Neal McDonough and Jeremy Luke. The drama’s original score is composed by Mark Isham (Once Upon a Time, Crash) who has previously collaborated with Darabont on the features The Majestic and The Mist. The show is based on the real-life accounts of the cops and gangsters of Los Angeles in the 1940s and tells the story of the violent crime underbelly of America’s most glamorous city and those who wanted to control it. The first season of six episodes Mob City will air over three weeks on TNT. To learn more about the series, visit the official show website.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (November 24, 2013)
Premiering tonight on Lifetime is the television movie Kristin’s Christmas Past directed by Jim Fall and starring Shiri Appleby, Will Kemp, Elizabeth Mitchell, Judd Nelson, A. J. Langer, Hannah Marks, Michael James-Olsen, Debby Ryan, Courtney Henggeler and Deniz Akdeniz. Michael Levine(Cold Case, Close to Home) has composed the film’s original score. The drama follows woman estranged from her family who goes to sleep alone on Christmas Eve and wakes up Christmas morning seventeen years into her past to relive the worst Christmas of her life. To learn more about the film, visit the official movie website.
Tree Adams Scoring ‘Reach Me’, ‘Swelter’ and USA’s ‘Sirens’
Tree Adams has recently composed the score for the upcoming drama Reach Me. The movie is directed by John Herzfeld (15 Minutes, 2 Days in the Valley) and stars Sylvester Stallone, Kyra Sedgwick, Tom Berenger, Kevin Connolly, Thomas Jane, Kelsey Grammer, Nelly, Danny Aiello, Terry Crews, Lauren Cohan, Elizabeth Henstridge, Cary Elwes, Ryan Kwanten, David O’Hara and Omari Hardwick.. The film follows a group of very different people connected by a self-help book written by a reclusive football coach whose lives intertwine and eventually collide. Rebekah Chaney and Cassian Elwes (Lee Daniels’ The Butler, The Paperboy) are producing the Seraphim Films and Paradox Entertainment production.
‘Nashville’ Season 2 – Volume 1 Soundtrack Announced
Big Machine Records, ABC Studios and Lionsgate have announced the first soundtrack album for the second season of the ABC drama Nashville. The album is produced by Buddy Miller who took over from T Bone Burnett as the executive music producer of the series for the second season and features songs from the show’s cast including Connie Britton (Rayna Jaymes), Hayden Panettiere (Juliette Barnes), Charles Esten (Deacon Claybourne), Clare Bowen (Scarlett O’Connor), Sam Palladio (Gunnar Scott), Jonathan Jackson (Avery Barkley), Chris Carmack (Will Lexington), Aubrey Peeples (Layla Grant), Chaley Rose (Zoey Dalton), sisters Lennon and Maisy Stella (Maddie & Daphne Conrad), Will Chase (Luke Wheeler) and more. The soundtrack will be released on December 10, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Nashville created by Callie Khouri currently airs every Wednesday night on ABC.
WAZ to Score Fox’s ‘Surviving Jack’
WAZ is scoring the upcoming Fox comedy Surviving Jack. The show is created by Justin Halpern & Patrick Schumacker ($#*! My Dad Says) and stars Christopher Meloni, Connor Buckley, Rachael Harris, Claudia Lee, Kevin Hernandez and Tyler Foden. The series based on Justin Halpern’s autobiographical book I Suck at Girls is set in 1990s Southern California and follows an ex-military man and no-nonsense guy who becomes a full-time parent when his wife decides to go to law school. Halpern and Schumacker are also executive producing the Warner Bros. Television and Doozer production with Bill Lawrence (Spin City, Scrubs) and Jeff Ingold WAZ is best known as a singer/songwriter and for his solo records. He has previously composed the theme and co-scored ABC’s Lawrence-produced comedy Cougar Town.
Johnny Klimek to Score ‘Kill Me Three Times’ and ABC’s ‘Mind Games’
Johnny Klimek is set to score the upcoming crime thriller Kill Me Three Times. The film is directed by Kriv Stenders (Red Dog) and stars Simon Pegg, Alice Braga, Luke Hemsworth, Teresa Palmer, Bryan Brown, Sullivan Stapleton and Callan Mulvey. The movie’s story is being told from three different points of view and follows a mercurial professional assassin in a sundrenched Australian surfing town who is hired to kill the singer wife of a wealthy man. James McFarland has written the screenplay and Laurence Malkin & Share Stallings (Death at a Funeral, A Few Best Men) are producing the project with former film industry administrator Tania Chambers. Kill Me Three Times is currently in post-production and will be released in 2014.