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Weekly TV Music Roundup (September 23, 2012)

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Four new dramas are premiering on the major networks this week:

Premiering on September 27 is the ABC drama Last Resort created by Shawn Ryan & Karl Gajdusek and starring Andre Braugher, Scott Speedman, Robert Patrick, Autumn Reeser, Max Adler, Daisy Betts and Dichen Lachman. The show’s music is composed by Robert Duncan (Castle, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) who has previously scored Ryan’s The Unit, Terriers and The Chicago Code. Check out our previous article for a behind-the-scenes video with Duncan collecting different sounds on an actual submarine. Last Resort will be airing every Thursday night on ABC.

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David Carbonara Scoring the CBS Drama ‘Vegas’

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David Carbonara is the composer of the new CBS period drama Vegas. The series is created by Nicholas Pileggi (Goodfellas, Casino) & Greg Walker and stars Dennis Quaid as Sheriff Ralph Lamb and Michael Chiklis as Chicago mobster Vincent Savino. Carrie-Anne Moss, Jason O’Mara and Taylor Handley are co-starring in the show, which is set in 1960s Las Vegas as it begins its rise as a gambling and entertainment mecca. James Mangold (Walk the Line, 3:10 to Yuma) has directed the pilot episode and is also executive producing the CBS Television Studios production with his producing partner Cathy Konrad (Scream), Pileggi, Walker and Arthur Sarkissian (Rush Hour trilogy). The show marks Carbonara’s first TV scoring assignment since the critically acclaimed and multiple Emmy Award-winning AMC drama Mad Men. 

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Stephen Endelman Scoring ‘Made in Jersey’

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Stephen Endelman is scoring the new CBS drama Made in Jersey. The legal show is created by Dana Calvo (writer on Covert Affairs and Greek) and stars Janet Montgomery as young working-class woman from New Jersey who uses her street smarts to succeed at a top New York law firm. Kyle MacLachlan, Stephanie March, Toni Trucks, Donna Murphy, Erin Cummings and Kristoffer Polaha are co-starring. Mark Waters (Mean Girls, The Spiderwick Chronicles) has directed the pilot episode and is also executive producing the series with Kevin Falls (Franklin & Bash, Journeyman), Jamie Tarses (Happy Endings) and Julia Franz (Men at Work).

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‘ThunderCats’ Soundtrack Details

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The details of the soundtrack album for the Cartoon Network animated series ThunderCats have been revealed. The 2-CD set features selections of the show’s original music composed by Kevin Kliesch. The composer received an Annie Award nomination this year for his work on the show. The soundtrack will be released on October 16, 2012 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. ThunderCats produced by Ethan Spaulding and Michael Jelenic is a reboot of the 1980s series and follows the group of humanoid cats who are forced to roam the planet Third Earth, in order to find a way to defeat an evil sorcerer who plans on taking over the universe. The Warner Bros. Animation production’s first season of 26 episodes aired last year on Cartoon Network.

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Ruth Barrett Scoring ‘Hunted’

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Ruth Barrett is scoring the new TV drama series Hunted. The show is created by Frank Spotnitz (The X-Files) and stars Melissa George as an operative for an elite private intelligence firm who survives an attempt on her life that may have been orchestrated by members of her own team. Adam Raymer (Hawthorne), Stephen Dillane (Game of Thrones), Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Lost), Morven Christie, Lex Shrapnel, Uriel Emil, Patrick Malahide, Stephen Campbell Moore and Oscar Kennedy are co-starring. Spotnitz is executive producing the series with Alison Jackson, Jane Featherstone (MI-5), Stephen Garrett (Life on Mars, Eastern Promises) and Christopher Aird. The eight-part series is produced by Kudos Film & Television, in association with Big Light Productions and the BBC. Barrett’s previous credits include the Michael Caine-starring thriller Harry Brown, as well as the Helena Bonham Carter-starring Toast directed by S.J. Clarkson who also directed the first two episodes of Hunted.

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Atli Orvarsson Scoring NBC’s ‘Chicago Fire’

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Atli Orvarsson is currently scoring the new NBC drama Chicago Fire. The show is created by Michael Brandt & Derek Haas (3:10 to Yuma, Wanted) and stars Jesse Spencer, Taylor Kinney, Lauren German, Monica Raymund, Charlie Barnett, Teri Reeves, David Eigenberg and Eamonn Walker. The series follows the lives of the firefighters, rescue squad and paramedics working at the Chicago Fire Department at the firehouse of Engine 51. Brandt and Haas are also executive producing the Universal Television and Wolf Films Production with Dick Wolf (Law & Order), Matt Olmstead (Prison Break), Joe Chappelle (Fringe), Danielle Gelber and Peter Jankowski. Jeffrey Nachmanoff (Traitor) directed the pilot episode.

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Weekly TV Music Roundup (September 16, 2012)

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A number of new TV shows are premiering this week:

Premiering this Monday, September 17 on NBC is the new drama Revolution created by Eric Kripke, produced by J.J. Abrams and starring Billy Burke, Tracy Spiridako, Elizabeth Mitchell, Anna Lise Phillips, Zak Orth and Giancarlo Esposito. Christopher Lennertz (Horrible Bosses, Hop) who is also scoring the Kripke-created CW series Supernatural is writing the original music for the sci-fi show, which follows follows a group of people struggling to survive and reunite with loved ones in a world where all forms of energy have mysteriously ceased to exist. Jon Favreau (Iron Man) has directed the pilot episode, which is now available to download for free on iTunes.

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‘Dexter’ Season 6 Soundtrack Details

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Milan Records will be releasing a new soundtrack album for the Showtime hit series Dexter. The album features music from the sixth season of the show, featuring the score by composer Daniel Licht, an extended version of the main theme composed by Rolfe Kent, several Latin tracks from the show, as well as a remix of Licht’s Blood Theme by DJ/Producer, Alaksa in Winter. The soundtrack will be released on September 25, 2012 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Audio clips can be checked out below. The sixth season of Dexter starring Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Carpenter, Desmond Harrington, C.S. Lee, Lauren Velez, David Zayas and James Remar has been released on Blu-Ray and DVD last month and the seventh season is set to premiere on September 30.

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Weekly TV Music Roundup (September 9, 2012)

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This weekend, Film Music Reporter launches a new weekly article series covering music for new TV shows, as well as made-for-television movies and mini-series premiering in the following or previous week. The articles will be published every Sunday.

Earlier this past week, the Cartoon Network premiered Dreamworks Animation’s Dragons: Riders of Berk based on the Academy Award-nominated hit film How to Train Your Dragon. The show’s voice talent includes the cast from the movie, including Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and T. J. Miller. John Paesano (Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas) is composing the series’ music and is incorporating John Powell’s themes from the feature version into his score. The first episode is available to download for free on iTunes and the show airs every Tuesday night on the Cartoon Network. Visit the official show website to learn more and check out our previous announcement about the assignment.

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Trevor Jones Scoring ‘Labyrinth’ Mini-Series

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Trevor Jones has recently scored the adventure mini-series Labyrinth. The series is directed by Christopher Smith (Severance, Triangle) and is based on the bestseller by Kate Mosse. Adrian Hodges (My Week With Marilyn, Primeval) has adapted the material for television. The four-hour mini-series’ cast includes Jessica Brown Findlay, Tom Felton, John Hurt, Sebastian Stan, Vanessa Kirby, Emun Elliott, Tony Curran, John Lynch and Bernhard Schir. Labyrinth is set against the backdrop of the Crusades and the Cathar massacres and tells two connected stories of a young woman living in Carcassonne in 1209 and a modern-day archaeologist who makes a startling discovery in a cave in the South of France.

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