Amazon Content Services will release a soundtrack album for the new Amazon original series If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. The album features the original songs from the show’s first season written and performed by Grammy Award-nominated singer/songwriter Lisa Loeb. The soundtrack will be released tomorrow, November 7, and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Loeb previously contributed a new song to last year’s holiday special If You Give a Mouse a Christmas Cookie. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie is based on the books by Laura Numeroff (Dennis the Menace) & Felicia Bond and is executive produced by Numeroff, Bond and Ken Scarborough who also serves as head writer. The animated series follows the adventures of Mouse, Oliver, Moose, Pig, Cat, and Dog.
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David Wingo Scoring Amazon’s ‘Sea Oak’
David Wingo has composed the music for the upcoming Amazon Studios pilot Sea Oak. The show is created by George Saunders (Lincoln in the Bardo) based on his own short story and stars Glenn Close, Jane Levy, Rae Gray, Jack Quaid and Sarah Hay. The comedy revolves around a lonesome woman who comes back from the dead to live the life she was too afraid to live. Hiro Murai (Atlanta) directed the pilot episode and is also executive producing the project with Jonathan Krauss and Evan Dunsky (Nurse Jackie, Hemlock Grove).
Marc & Steffan Fantini Scoring Amazon’s ‘The Climb’
Marc & Steffan Fantini have recently scored the pilot for the Amazon Studios comedy The Climb. The show is created by Diarra Kilpatrick (American Koko) who also stars in the series, which follows an office assistant who seeks an extraordinary life through internet fame, with her best friend always in tow. Christina Lee (Search Party, Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp) and Kilpatrick are executive producing the project produced by the Mark Gordon Company and Amazon Studios.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (October 22, 2017)
Premiering in the U.S. on Friday, October 27, is the British drama Fearless created by Patrick Harbinson and starring Helen McCrory, Jonathan Forbes, Sam Swainsbury, Rebecca Callard, Wunmi Mosaku, Robin Weigert, John Bishop, Jamie Bamber, Emma Hamilton and Michael Gambon. The show’s original music is composed by Ruth Barrett (Harry Brown, Victoria, Toast, Love, Nina, Hunted). The crime drama, which revolves around a human rights lawyer known for defending lost causes, premiered in the UK this summer on ITV and will debut in the U.S. on Amazon Prime.
Cliff Martinez to Score Amazon’s ‘Too Old To Die Young’ & ‘Den of Thieves’
Cliff Martinez is set to reteam with Nicolas Winding Refn on the upcoming Amazon original series Too Old To Die Young. The show is written by Winding Refn & comic author Ed Brubaker (Captain America, The Fade In) and explores the criminal underbelly of Los Angeles. Miles Teller is set to star in the drama as a grieving police officer who finds himself in an underworld filled with working-class hit men, Yakuza soldiers, cartel assassins sent from Mexico, Russian mafia captains and gangs of teen killers. Refn will be directing all ten episodes of the show’s first season.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (October 8, 2017)
Premiering in the U.S. tonight is the British series The Collection created Oliver Goldstick and starring Richard Coyle, Tom Riley, Frances de la Tour, Mamie Gummer, Max Deacon, Irène Jacob, Michael Kitchen and James Cosmo. The show’s original music is composed by Dominik Scherrer (The Missing, Ripper Street, Primeval). The drama premiered last year in the UK on Amazon and is making its domestic debut tonight on PBS. Visit our previous article and the official show website for more information.
Premiering on Wednesday, October 11, is the new CW drama Dynasty created by Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage & Sallie Patrick based on the classic 80s show of the same title and starring Nathalie Kelley, Elizabeth Gillies, Alan Dale, Sam Adegoke, Rob Riley and Grant Show. Paul-Leonard Morgan (Limitless, Walking with Dinosaurs 3D, Dredd, The Numbers Station) is composing the show’s original music. Check out our scoring assignment announcement and visit the official show website to learn more about the series, which will air Wednesday nights on the CW.
‘The Last Post’ Soundtrack Released
Mercury Classics has released a soundtrack album for the BBC drama The Last Post. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Solomon Grey (The Casual Vacancy). The soundtrack is now available digitally overseas (visit the British iTunes store to listen to audio samples). A CD version is set to be released in a couple of weeks and is now available to order on Amazon. The Last Post is created by Peter Moffat and stars Jessica Raine, Jessie Buckley, Stephen Campbell Moore, Ben Miles and Jeremy Neumark Jones. The drama is set in the mid-1960s and centers on the lives of a Royal Military Police unit and their families in Aden, Yemen. series will premiere in the UK this Sunday, October on BBC One. The show will be available in the U.S. on Amazon Prime.
‘Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams’ to Feature Music by Harry Gregson-Williams, Olafur Arnalds & Cristobal Tapia de Veer
Harry Gregson-Williams (The Chronicles of Narnia, Shrek, Kingdom of Heaven, The Martian) has composed the main titles theme for upcoming Channel 4 & Amazon original series Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams. Check out the main titles sequence after the jump. The composer has also scored at least one episode of the anthology series. Olafur Arnalds (Broadchurch, Gimme Shelter) and Cristobal Tapia de Veer (Utopia, The Girl with All the Gifts) are also scoring multiple episodes of the show, which are all based on short stories by legendary sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (September 24, 2017)
Premiering tonight is sci-fi drama Star Trek: Discovery developed by Alex Kurtzman & Bryan Fuller and starring Sonequa Martin-Green, Jason Isaacs, Doug Jones, James Frain, Michelle Yeoh and Anthony Rapp. The show’s original music is composed by Jeff Russo (Fargo, Legion, The Night Of, Snowfall, Power). Check out our previous article for a video from the recording sessions of the composer’s theme for the show and click here to watch the main titles sequence. The series is premiering on CBS tonight and the rest of the episodes will be available to stream on CBS All Access.
Premiering tomorrow, September 25, is the NBC drama The Brave created by Dean Georgaris and starring Anne Heche, Mike Vogel, Sofia Pernas, Tate Ellington, Natacha Karam, Demetrius Grosse, Noah Mills and Hadi Tabbal. Toby Chu (Covert Affairs, Burn Notice, Beyond, Unforgettable, Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return) is composing the show’s original music. Check out our scoring assignment announcement to learn more about the drama, which will air Monday nights on NBC.
BBC’s ‘The Last Post’ to Feature Music by Solomon Grey
Solomon Grey (aka Tom Kingston and Joe Wilson) are composing the original score for the upcoming BBC drama The Last Post. The show is created by Peter Moffat (Criminal Justice, Silk, Undercover) and stars Jessica Raine, Jessie Buckley, Stephen Campbell Moore, Ben Miles and Jeremy Neumark Jones. The drama is set in the mid-1960s and centers on the lives of a Royal Military Police unit and their families in Aden, Yemen. Margery Bone & Elwen Rowlands and George Faber (Shameless, Skins) & Mark Pybus are executive the Bonafide Films & The Forge Entertainment production with Matthew Read.