Danny Lux is scoring the new CBS comedy The Millers. The show is created by Greg Garcia and stars Will Arnett, Margo Martindale, Jayma Mays, JB Smoove, Nelson Franklin, Eve Moon and Beau Bridges. The series follows a recently divorced local roving news reporter looking forward to living the singles life until his parents’ marital problems unexpectedly derail his plan. Garcia is also executive producing the CBS Television Studios production. Lux has previously scored the Garcia-created comedy My Name is Earl and is also scoring the writer/producer’s Fox comedy Raising Hope with Matt Mariano.
Category: TV Scoring Assignments
Ramin Djawadi to Score Guillermo Del Toro’s ‘The Strain’
Ramin Djawadi has been hired to score the upcoming FX drama The Strain. The show is based on the vampire novel trilogy written by Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrrinth) & Chuck Hogan (Prince of Thieves) and stars Corey Stoll, John Hurt, Kevin Durand, Mía Maestro, Jonathan Hyde, Richard Sammel, Javier Botet, Miguel Gomez, Natalie Brown, Jack Kesy, Sean Astin, Robert Maillet and Francis Capra. The horror series centers on a vampire virus that infects New York a and a CDC doctor who is called upon to investigate a viral outbreak connected to an evil strain of vampirism. Carlton Cuse (Lost, Bates Motel) will serve as the showrunner.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (September 22, 2013)
Premiering on Tuesday, September 24, on ABC is Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. executive produced by Joss Whedon, Jed Whedon & Maurissa Tancharoen and starring Clark Gregg, Brett Dalton, Ming-Na Wen, Iain De Caestecker, Elizabeth Henstridge and Chloe Bennett. Bear McCreary (The Walking Dead, Battlestar Galactica) is scoring the show weekly with a full orchestra. To learn more about the series, which centers around Agent Phil Coulson from Marvel’s feature films as he assembles a group of Agents from the worldwide law-enforcement organization known as S.H.I.E.L.D., check out our previous news article. The drama will air every Tuesday night on ABC.
Bob Thiele and Paul Koch Scoring ABC’s ‘Lucky 7’
Bob Thiele and Paul Koch are scoring the new ABC drama Lucky 7. The show based on the British hit series The Syndicate is adapted by David Zabel (ER) and Jason Richman (Detroit 1-8-7) and follows a group of seven gas station employees in Queens, New York whose lives will be transformed by an unexpected lottery win. The series stars Summer Bishil, Lorraine Bruce, Alex Castillo, Christine Evangelista, Stephen Louis Grush, Matt Long, Anastasia Phillips, Luis Antonio Ramos and Isiah Whitlock Jr. Zabel and Richman are also executive producing the Amblin Television and ABC Studios production with Steven Spielberg, Darryl Frank & Justin Falvey (The Americans, Under the Dome, Falling Skies), Kay Mellor. Paul McGuigan (Lucky Number Slevin, Wicker Park) has directed the pilot episode.
BT Scoring John Herzfeld’s ‘Reach Me’
BT has signed on to score the upcoming comedy drama Reach Me. The film is directed by John Herzfeld (2 Days in the Valley, 15 Minutes) and stars Sylvester Stallone, Kyra Sedgwick, Tom Berenger, Kevin Connolly, Thomas Jane, Kelsey Grammer, Nelly, Danny Aiello, Terry Crews, David O’Hara, Omari Hardwick, Lauren Cohan, Elizabeth Henstridge, Cary Elwes and Ryan Kwanten. The movie follows a group of characters whose lives intertwine and eventually collide as a result of a self-published motivational book and its anonymous author. Rebekah Chaney is producing the Seraphim Films and Paradox Entertainment production with Cassian Elwes (Lee Daniels’ The Butler, The Paperboy).
Geoff Zanelli to Score Hallmark’s ‘Christmas in Conway’
Geoff Zanelli is scoring the upcoming Hallmark Hall of Fame original movie Christmas in Conway. The film is directed by John Kent Harrison and stars Mary-Louise Parker, Andy Garcia and Mandy Moore. The movie follows a man who builds a Ferris wheel in the backyard of his house as the perfect Christmas present for his wife, as he proposed to her many years ago. Stephen P. Lindsey (Hachi: A Dog’s Tale) and Luis Ugaz have written the script. Brent Shields (Remember Sunday, The Makeover) and Howard Koch Jr. (Source Code, Gorky Park) are executive producing the project. Christmas in Conway will become the 250th presentation of the Hallmark Hall of Fame when it premieres later this year on ABC.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (September 15, 2013)
Premiering tomorrow, September 16, on Fox is the new mystery adventure drama Sleepy Hollow created by Alex Kurtzman & Bob Orci (Star Trek, Transformers), Len Wiseman (Underworld, Live Free or Die Hard) & Phillip Iscove and starring Tom Mison, Nicole Beharie, Orlando Jones, John Cho and Katia Winter. Brian Tyler (Iron Man 3, Fast Five, Now You See Me) is composing the score for the series, which is based on The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow and 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. Sleepy Hollow will air every Monday night on Fox. For updates on the supernatural drama, visit the official show website.
Rob Lane to Score Discovery Channel’s ‘Klondike’
Rob Lane has been hired to score the upcoming mini-series Klondike. The television event marks Discovery Channel’s first scripted project and stars Sam Shepard, Richard Madden, Abbie Cornish, Ian Hart, Johnny Simmons, Conor Leslie, Tim Roth, Augustus Prew, Marton Csokas and Tim Blake Nelson. The series is based on the novel Gold Diggers: Striking It Rich In The Klondike by Charlotte Gray and tells the story of six strangers and their collective fight for survival and wealth in a small frontier town in the remote Klondike. Simon Cellan Jones is directing the six-hour series from a script by Paul Scheuring (Prison Break, Zero Hour), Josh Goldin (Darkman) and Rachel Abramowitz.
John Swihart to Score CBS’ ‘We Are Men’
John Swihart has been tapped to score the upcoming CBS comedy We Are Men. The show is created by Rob Greenberg and stars Tony Shalhoub, Jerry O’Connell, Kal Penn, Chris Smith and Rebecca Breeds. The series follows four single guys living in a short-term apartment complex who unexpectedly find camaraderie over their many missteps in love. Greenberg is also executive producing the CBS Television Studios production with Eric and Kim Tannenbaum (Two and a Half Men). Greenberg has previously produced and directed numerous episodes of the CBS hit comedy How I Met Your Mother, which is also scored by Swihart and returns for a ninth and final season this fall.
‘The X-Files’ Volume 2 Soundtrack Box Set Released
La-La Land Records has released a new 4-CD box set for the hit mystery series The X-Files. The release includes selections from the show’s original score from all nine seasons composed by Mark Snow, for a total of more than 5 hours of music. The set is limited to 3000 copies and also features a 40-Page CD booklet containing comments from show creator Chris Carter and writer/producers Frank Spotnitz, Glen Morgan and James Wong. The soundtrack is now available to order on La-La Land Records’ website, where you can also listen to audio clips and check out the full track list. The label has previously released another box set featuring the show’s score back in 2011. Click here for the full details. The X-Files created by Chris Carter and starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson aired from 1993 to 2002 on FOX and spun two theatrical movies that were released in 1998 and 2008.