Jon Ehrlich and Jason Derlatka are scoring the new ABC Family/Freefrom original series Recovery Road. The show is created by Bert V. Royal (Easy A) & Karen DiConcetto based on the young adult novel by Blake Nelson and stars Jessica Sula, Alexis Carra, Sebastian De Souza, Daniel Franzese, Sharon Leal, Kyla Pratt and David Witts. The drama follows a teenage girl struggling with addiction who is moving into a sober-living facility while still dealing with the normal pressures of being a teenager. Royal and DiConcetto are also executive producing the project with Craig Piligian & Beth Miller and Danielle VonZerneck.
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Weekly TV Music Roundup (August 9, 2015)
Premiering on Wednesday, August 12, is the ABC Family original series Kevin from Work created by Barbie Adler (How I Met Your Mother) and starring Noah Reid, Paige Spara, Matt Murray, Jordan Hinson and Punam Patel. The show’s original music is composed by Dominic Lewis (Free Birds, The DUFF, Spooks: The Greater Good). Kevin from Work follows a young man who professes his love to a co-worker before accepting another job, only to find that his offer has been rescinded. The comedy will air every Wednesday night on ABC Family. For updates on the series, visit the official show website.
Ben Decter to Score ABC Family’s ‘Shadowhunters’
Ben Decter has been hired to score the upcoming ABC Family original series Shadowhunters. The show is based on the bestselling young adult fantasy book series The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare and follows an 18-year-old girl who finds out on her birthday that she is not who she thinks she is but rather comes from a long line of Shadowhunters – human-angel hybrids who hunt down demons. The Constantin Film production stars Katherine McNamara, Dominic Sherwood, Alberto Rosende, Emeraude Toubia, Matthew Daddario, Isaiah Mustafa, David Castro and Harry Shum Jr.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (May 31, 2015)
Premiering tomorrow, June 2, is the ABC drama The Whispers created by Soo Hugh, executive produced by Steven Spielberg and starring Lily Rabe, Barry Sloane, Derek Webster, Milo Ventimiglia, Brianna Brown, Kylie Rogers, Kyle Harrison Breitkopf and Catalina Deni. The show’s original music is composed by Robert Duncan (Castle, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Last Resort, The Unit). The Whispers is based on the short story Zero Hour by Ray Bradbury and chronicles the race against the clock to defeat an unseen alien enemy out to achieve world domination using the planet’s most unlikely resource: the children. The drama will air every Monday night on ABC. For updates on the series, visit the official show website.
Also premiering tomorrow is the Lifetime original series UnReal created by Marti Noxon & Sarah Gertrude Shapiro and starring Shiri Appleby, Constance Zimmer, Craig Bierko, Freddie Stroma, Josh Kelly and Nathalie Kelley. Fil Eisler (Empire, Revenge, Shameless) has composed the show’s original music. UnReal is based on Shapiro’s short Sequin Raze and follows a young staff member on a hit competition dating show who does everything she can to help please the show’s executive producer. The series will air every Monday night on Lifetime. Visit the official show website for more information.
Kurt Farquhar to Score ABC Family’s ‘Stitchers’
Kurt Farquhar is composing the score for the upcoming ABC Family drama Stitchers. The show is created by Jeffrey A. Schechter (Overruled!) and stars Emma Ishta, Kyle Harris, Ritesh Rajan, Salli Richardson-Whitfield and Allison Scagliotti. The procedural series follows a young woman recruited into a covert government agency to be ‘stitched’ into the minds of the recently deceased, using their memories to investigate murders and decipher mysteries that otherwise would have gone to the grave. Schechter is also executive producing the project with Jonathan Baruch and Rob Wolken.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (June 29, 2014)
Premiering tonight is the new HBO original series The Leftovers created by Damon Lindelof (Lost) and Tom Perrotta (Little Children) and starring Justin Theroux, Amy Brenneman, Christopher Eccleston, Liv Tyler and Ann Dowd. The show’s original music is composed by Max Richter (Waltz with Bashir, Disconnect, The Lunchbox). To learn more about the drama, which takes place in the wake of a global “Rapture” and follows the people who didn’t make the cut, check out our scoring assignment article. The Leftovers will air every Sunday night on HBO.
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.
Stephen Endelman Scoring Peter Bogdanovich’s ‘Squirrels to the Nuts’
Stephen Endelman has recently recorded his music for the upcoming comedy Squirrels to the Nuts. The film is directed by Peter Bogdanovich (The Last Picture Show, What’s Up, Doc?, Paper Moon) and stars Jennifer Aniston, Owen Wilson, Kathryn Hahn, Imogen Poots, Will Forte, Cybill Shepherd, Rhys Ifans, Lucy Punch, Ahna O’Reilly, Jake Hoffman, Austin Pendleton and George Morfogen. The movie follows a married Broadway director who meets a call girl and tries to convince her to change her life. Bogdanavich has also co-written the screenplay with Louise Stratten. Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel, Moonrise Kingdom) and Noah Baumbach (Greenberg, Frances Ha) are producing the project with Holly Wiersma (Bobby, Bug), Logan Levy and music supervisor George Drakoulias.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (June 16, 2013)
Premiering tomorrow, June 17 is the HBO documentary Love, Marilyn written and directed by Liz Garbus. The movie visits seminal moments and relationships that shaped Marilyn Monroe’s career and tumultuous personal life and features interviews with Elizabeth Banks, Adrien Brody, Ellen Burstyn, Glenn Close, Hope Davis, Viola Davis, Jennifer Ehle, Ben Foster, Paul Giamatti, Jack Huston, Stephen Lang, Lindsay Lohan, Janet McTeer, Jeremy Piven, Oliver Platt, David Strathairn, Lili Taylor, Uma Thurman, Marisa Tomei and Evan Rachel Wood. Philip Sheppard (The Tillman Story) who previously scored Garbus’ Bobby Fischer Against the World has composed the film’s original score. Love, Marilyn premiered at last year’s Toronto Film Festival and will air tomorrow night on HBO.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (June 2, 2013)
Premiering tomorrow, June 3, on ABC is the new drama Mistresses starring Alyssa Milano, Yunjin Kim, Rochelle Aytes, Jes Macallan, Brett Tucker, Jason George and Erik Stocklin. The series about the scandalous lives of a sexy and sassy group of four girlfriends is based on the UK series of the same title and is executive produced by Rina Mimoun (Privileged), K.J. Steinberg (Gossip Girl), Robert Sertner (Revenge) and Douglas Rae (Wuthering Heights). The show’s original score is composed by Danny Lux (Grey’s Anatomy, Ally McBeal, Boston Legal). Rob Simonsen (500 Days of Summer, The Way, Way Back) also contributed music for the pilot episode. Mistresses will air every Monday night on ABC. For updates on the drama, visit the official show website.