Premiering tonight is the Hallmark Hall of Fame original movie The Makeover directed by John Gray (The Ghost Whisperer, The Glimmer Man) and starring Julia Stiles, David Walton, Frances Fisher, Camryn Manheim and Georgia Lyman. The movie’s screenplay is written by C. Jay Cox (Sweet Home Alabama). The drama centers on a failed congressional candidate who decides to turn a blue-collared beer vendor into the perfect candidate. Michael A. Levine (Cold Case, Close to Home) has composed the film’s original score. The Makeover premieres tonight on ABC. To learn more about the film, visit the network’s official site and click here to watch the trailer.
Category: TV Scoring Assignments
Nathan Barr Scoring FX’s ‘The Americans’
Nathan Barr is scoring the new FX period drama The Americans. The show is created by Joe Weisberg (Falling Skies) and stars Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys as two married KGB spies who are posing as Americans in suburban Washington D.C. shortly after Ronald Reagan is elected President. Maximiliano Hernández, Keidrich Sellati, Holly Taylor, Margo Martindale and Noah Emmerich are co-starring. Weisberg is executive producing the Fox Television Studios and FX Productions project with Joel Fields and Graham Yost (Justified, screenwriter of Speed) and Amblin Television heads Justin Falvey & Darryl Frank (Smash, Terra Nova). Gavin O’Connor (Miracle, Warrior) has directed the pilot episode. Check out the full main titles sequence (introduced in the second episode) after the jump.
James Levine Scoring NBC’s ‘Do No Harm’
James S. Levine is scoring the new NBC drama Do No Harm. The series created by David Schulner and stars Steven Pasquale as a highly respected neurosurgeon who iswrestling with his dangerous alter-ego that threatens to wreak havoc on his personal and professional life. Alana De La Garza, Michael Esper, Ruta Gedmintas, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Phylicia Rashad, John Carroll Lynch and Samm Levine are co-starring. Schulner is executive producing the series with Peter Traugott (Samantha Who?), Rachel Kaplan and Jeffrey Reiner (The Event, Friday Night Lights). Do No Harm is set to premiere on January 31, 2013 and will be airing every Thursday night on NBC.
‘Flight of the Storks’ Soundtrack Released
MovieScore Media has released a soundtrack album for the mini-series Flight of the Storks (Le vol des cigognes). The album features the series’ original score written by French composer Eric Neveux (Intimacy, Hideaways). The soundtrack is now available digitally on iTunes, where you can also check out audio clips. Flight of the Storks is based on the 1994 novel by Jean-Christophe Grangné and follows a young academic who teams up with an amateur ornithologist to follow storks on their migration to Africa. The EuropaCorp Television production is directed by Jan Kounen (Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky) and stars Rutger Hauer, Harry Treadaway, Perdita Weeks and Clemens Schick. The mini-series recently premiered on Canal+ in France.
‘Frozen Planet’ Soundtrack Announced
Silva Screen Records has announced a soundtrack album for the BBC series Frozen Planet. The album features selections from the show’s score composed and conducted by George Fenton (Gandhi, Cry Freedom, The Fisher King) who has previously scored the nature documentary series The Blue Planet and Planet Earth. The music is performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra. The soundtrack will be released on March 18, 2013. Frozen Planet narrated by David Attenborough (and Alec Baldwin in the US version) focuses on life and the environment in both the Arctic and Antarctic. The series, which aired on BBC in the UK and on The Discovery Channel in the US, was honored with four Emmy Awards last year, including Outstanding Nonfiction Series.
Danny Lux to Score TNT’s ‘Monday Mornings’
Danny Lux has been tapped to score the new TNT original series Monday Mornings. The drama is created by David E. Kelley and stars Alfred Molina, Ving Rhames, Jamie Bamber, Jennifer Finnigan, Bill Irwin, Keong Sim, Sarayu Rao and Emily Swallow. The show based on a novel by practicing neurosurgeon and CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta is set at the fictional Chelsea General Hospital in Portland, Oregon and follows the lives of a group of doctors as they push the limits of their abilities and confront their personal and professional failings. Kelley is executing producing the show with Gupta and Bill D’Elia (The West Wing, The Practice) who also directed the pilot. Lux has previously scored several shows for Kelley, including the Emmy-winning hit shows Ally McBeal and Boston Legal, and most recently the second season of NBC’s Harry’s Law.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (January 20, 2013)
Premiering tomorrow night is the new Fox drama The Following created by Kevin Williamson (Scream, Dawson’s Creek) and starring Kevin Bacon, James Purefoy, Jeananne Goossen, Maggie Grace, Natalie Zea, Adan Canto, Nico Tortorella and Shawn Ashmore. The show’s music is composed by John Frizzell (Alien: Resurrection, Dante’s Peak). The series follows an ex-FBI agent who is recruited to recapture an escaped serial killer. To learn more about the show, which will air every Monday night on Fox, visit our previous news article.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (January 13, 2013)
A number of new TV shows will be premiering this week:
Premiering tomorrow is The CW drama The Carrie Diaries based on based on the bestselling novel by Candace Bushnell and starring AnnaSophia Robb, Austin Butler, Ellen Wong, Katie Findlay, Stefania Owen, Brendan Dooling, Chloe Bridges, Freema Agyeman and Matt Letscher. The prequel to the HBO hit show Sex And The City is executive produced by Amy B. Harris, Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage, Len Goldstein, Candace Bushnell, Miguel Arteta who also directed the pilot episode. The show’s score is composed by Mark Mothersbaugh (21 Jump Street, Hotel Transylvania). The series will be airing every Monday night on The CW. Check out our previous article for more information on the project and visit the official show website for updates.
Chris Bacon to Score ‘Bates Motel’
Chris Bacon has been hired to score A&E Network’s upcoming TV series Bates Motel. The show is a contemporary prequel to Alfred Hitchcock’s classic movie Psycho and chronicles how Norman Bates’ psyche unravels through his teenage years. Freddie Highmore stars as Norman Bates and Vera Farmiga plays his mother Norma. Max Thieriot, Olivia Cooke, Nicola Peltz, Nestor Carbonell and Mike Vogel are co-starring. Carlton Cuse (Lost) and Kerry Ehrin (Friday Night Lights) are executive producing the Universal Television production. Bates Motel is set to premiere on March 18, 2013 on A&E. The first season of ten episodes will be airing every Monday night.
‘Being Human’ Soundtrack Announced
A soundtrack album has been announced for the Syfy original series Being Human. The album features selections from the show’s score from seasons 1 & 2 composed by FM Le Sieur. The soundtrack will be released on January 8 on iTunes. Check back for a link to download the album and to check out audio clips in a few days. Being Human based on the BBC series of the same name follows three roommates who struggle to keep their supernatural secrets and resist individual temptations as they strive to live lives that are as near to normal as possible. The show stars Sam Witwer, Meaghan Rath, Sam Huntington, Mark Pellegrino, Dichen Lachman and Kristen Hager. The second season has just been released on Blu-Ray and DVD and the third season of the series will premiere on January 14 on Syfy. For updates on the series, visit Syfy’s official show website.