Ruth Barrett (Bodyguard, Collateral, Harry Brown, Victoria, Sanditon) has recently scored the new BBC series Bloodlands. The show is created by Chris Brandon and stars James Nesbitt, Lisa Dwan, Lorcan Cranitch, Charlene McKenna, Ian McElhinney, Lola Petticrew and Chris Walley. The 4-part crime thriller is directed by Pete Travis (Dredd, Vantage Point) and revolves around a detective who is forced to grapple with his past when he is sent on the hunt for a mythical assassin. Jed Mercurio (Line of Duty, Critical), Jimmy Mulville (Flack, Episodes) and Mark Redhead (Bloody Sunday, The Secret) are producing the project for HTM Television production.
Tag: Acorn TV
Soundtrack Album for Acorn TV’s ‘London Kills’ Released
A soundtrack album has been released for the Acorn TV original series London Kills. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s first two seasons composed by Justine Barker (Casualty, Suspects). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also listen to audio clips. London Kills is created by Paul Marquess and stars Hugo Speer, Sharon Small, Bailey Patrick, Tori Allen-Martin and Jennie Jacques. The drama follows an elite team of cops as they investigate murders taking place in the English capital.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (December 6, 2020)
Premiering tonight is the Showtime limited series Your Honor developed by Peter Moffat based on the Israeli series Kvodo and starring Bryan Cranston, Carmen Ejogo, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Sofia Black-D’Elia, Hope Davis and Michael Stuhlbarg . The show’s original music is composed by Volker Bertelmann (aka Hauschka) (Lion, Hotel Mumbai, Adrift, Ammonite, Patrick Melrose, The Old Guard, The Art of Racing in the Rain). Check out our previous news article to learn more about the drama, which will air every Sunday night on Showtime.
Premiering in the U.S. tomorrow, December 7, is the British limited series A Suitable Boy written by Andrew Davies, directed by Mira Nair and starring Tabu, Ishaan Khatter, Tanya Maniktala and Mahira Kakkar. Alex Heffes (The Last King of Scotland, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, Queen of Katwe, Touching the Void, Roots) and Anoushka Shankar. Silva Screen Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composers’ score. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and for more information about the 4-parter, which is making its domestic debut on Acorn TV.
‘Rebecka Martinsson’ Soundtrack Album Released
ODS Recordings has released the first soundtrack album for the Swedish crime drama Rebecka Martinsson. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s first two seasons composed by Dan Berridge (The Girl, Penguins: Life on the Edge, Great Bear Stakeout). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon, where you can also check out the full track list and listen to audio clips. Rebecka Martinsson is based on the novels by Åsa Larsson and stars Ida Engvoll, Sascha Zacharias, Eva Melander and Jakob Öhrman. The series revolves around a successful Stockholm lawyer whose life is turned upside down after a violent death in the hometown she tried to leave behind.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (April 5, 2020)
Premiering in the U.S. is the World War II drama World on Fire written by Peter Bowker and starring Julia Brown, Yrsa Daley-Ward, Sean Bean, Lesley Manville, Jonah Hauer-King, Helen Hunt, Blake Harrison, Zofia Wichłacz, Brian J. Smith, Parker Sawyers, Tomasz Kot, Bruno Alexander, Patrick Kennedy, Johannes Zeiler and Eugénie Derouand. Dan Jones (On Chesil Beach, Shadow of the Empire, Any Human Heart, Lady Macbeth, The Miniaturist) has composed the show’s original music. Dubois Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the selections of the drama’s score. Check out our previous news article for the full album details and for more information, which is premiering stateside on PBS.
Also premiering tonight is the British drama The Windermere Children directed by Michael Samuels and starring Thomas Kretschmann, Romola Garai, Tim McInnerny, Iain Glen, Tomasz Studzinski, Anna Maciejewska, Kuba Sprenger, Marek Wrobelewski and Kacper Swietek. Alex Baranowski (Nureyev: Lifting the Curtain) has composed the film’s original music. Sony Classical has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and to learn more about the movie, which premiered in the UK earlier this year on BBC Two and is making its U.S. debut on PBS.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (March 22, 2020)
Premiering in the U.S. tomorrow, March 23 is the Australian mystery drama Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears directed by Tony Tilse and starring Essie Davis, Nathan Page, Miriam Margolyes, Ashleigh Cummings, Hugo Johnstone-Burt, Rupert Penry-Jones, Daniel Lapaine and Jacqueline McKenzie. The film’s original music is composed by Greg J Walker (Newton’s Law) who is also the composer of the Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries TV series. LilliPilli IP has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score last month when the movie was released in Australia. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and to learn more about the film, which is premiering stateside on Acorn TV.
Premiering on Tuesday, March 24, is the NBC drama Council of Dads created by Joan Rater & Tony Phelan and starring Sarah Wayne Callies, Clive Standen, J. August Richards, Michael O’Neill, Michelle Weaver, Steven Silver, Emjay Anthony, Thalia Tran and Blue Chapman. Fil Eisler (Revenge, Empire, How to Be Single, UnReal, Proud Mary, CHiPs, Life of the Party) is composing the show’s original music. Check out our previous article for more information about the series, which will air Tuesday nights before moving to a new time slot in late April.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (March 10, 2019)
Premiering tonight is the second season of the Starz original series American Gods based on Neil Gaiman’s fantasy novel and starring Ian McShane, Ricky Whittle, Yetide Badaki, Crispin Glover, Orlando Jones, Dean Winters, Devery Jacobs, Sakina Jaffrey and Kahyun Kim. Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans (Boy Erased, Ozark, The Gift, Enemy, Martha Marcy May Marlene) are the new composers of the show. Check out our scoring assignment announcement to learn more about the series, which will air every Sunday night on Starz.
Also premiering tonight is the HBO docu-series The Case Against Adnan Syed directed by Amy Berg about the 1999 murder of 18-year-old Baltimore County high school student Hae Min Lee, and the subsequent conviction of her ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed. The show’s original music is composed by Dhani Harrison & Paul Hicks (Beautiful Creatures, Learning to Drive, The Divide, Outsiders). Check out our previous article for more information about the 4-part series.
Paul Englishby Scoring Acorn TV’s ‘Queens of Mystery’
Paul Englishby (An Education, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Luther, The Musketeers) is currently scoring the upcoming Acorn TV original series Queens of Mystery. The show is created by Julian Unthank (Doc Martin, New Tricks) and stars Matilda Stone, Olivia Vinall, Julie Graham, Sarah Woodwar, Siobhan Redmond, Andrew Leung, Rebecca Grant, Michael Elcock and Martin Trenaman. The British drama centers on three crime-writing sisters, and their 28-year old niece who use their extensive knowledge of crime to solve whodunit style murders in the picturesque English village of Wildemarsh.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (May 14, 2017)
Premiering in the U.S. tomorrow, May 15, is the British mini-series Decline and Fall written by James Woods, directed by Guillem Morales and starring Jack Whitehall, David Suchet and Eva Longoria. The 3-parter’s original music is composed by Paul Englishby (An Education, Miss Petigrew Lives for a Day, The Musketeers). The comedy is based on Evelyn Waugh’s classic novel and follows an inoffensive divinity student at Oxford University in the 1920s,who is wrongly dismissed for indecent exposure having been made the victim of a prank by The Bollinger Club. The show premiered earlier this year in the UK on BBC and makes its U.S. debut on Acorn TV. Visit the official show website for more information.
Premiering on Friday, May 19, is the third season of the Syfy original series 12 Monkeys developed by Terry Matalas & Travis Fickett based on Terry Gilliam’s movie and starring Aaron Standford, Amanda Schull, Kirk Acevedo, Todd Stashwick, Emily Hampshire, Barbara Sukowa and Noah Bean. Stephen Barton (Jennifer’s Body, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, Titanfall) and Bryce Jacobs (Drive Hard) have scored the new season, taking over from Trevor Rabin & Paul Linford who composed the music for the first two seasons. Visit the official show website for updates.
‘The Witness for the Prosecution’ Soundtrack Announced
Silva Screen Records has announced a soundtrack album for the BBC mini-series The Witness for the Prosecution. The album features the film’s original music composed by Emmy Award nominee Paul Englishby (An Education, Page Eight, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Luther, The Musketeers) who received an Ivor Novello nomination in the Best Television Soundtrack category this year for his work on the project. The soundtrack will be released digitally on April 28, 2017. The download link will be added to this article within the next week. The Witness for the Prosecution based on the classic Agatha Christie book of the same title is directed by Julian Jarrod and stars Toby Jones, Andrea Riseborough, Kim Cattrall, Monica Dolan, Billy Howle and David Haig.