Premiering on Friday, May 20 is the Netflix original series Lady Dynamite created by Mitchell Hurwitz & Maria Bamford and stars Bramford, Fred Melamed Dean Cain and Ana Gasteyer, as well as guest stars including Sarah Silverman, Jenny Slate, Mira Sorvino, Patton Oswalt, Jon Cryer, Brandon Routh,Tig Notaro & more. The show’s original music is composed by David Schwartz (Arrested Development, Reaper, Northern Expose). The comedy’s full first season will be available to stream this Friday on Netflix.
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Weekly TV Music Roundup (April 17, 2016)
Premiering on Tuesday, April 19, is the mini-series The Night Manager directed by Susanne Bier and starring Hugh Laurie, Tom Hiddleston, Olivia Colman, Tom Hollander, Elizabeth Debicki, David Harewood, Neil Morrissey, Katherine Kelly and Tobias Menzies. The 6-parter’s original music is composed by Victor Reyes (Buried, Grand Piano, Red Lights). Silva Screen Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s music from the show. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and to learn more about the series, which airs in the U.S. on AMC.
Also premiering on Tuesday is the new CW drama Containment created by Julie Plec based on the Belgian TV series Cordon and starring David Gyasi, Christina Moses, Chris Wood, Hanna Mangan-Lawrence, Kristen Gutoskie, George Young, Claudia Black and Trevor St. John. Michael Suby (The Vampire Diaries, The Butterfly Effect, The Originals, Pretty Little Liars) is composing the show’s original music. To learn more about the series, which will air every Tuesday night on The CW, visit our scoring assignment announcement from last year.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (January 17, 2016)
Premiering tonight is the Showtime original series Billions created by Brian Koppelman & David Levien and Andrew Ross Sorkin and starring Paul Giamatti, Damian Lewis, Maggie Siff, Malin Akerman, Toby Leonard Moore, David Costabile and Condola Rashad. The show’s original music is composed by ESKMO aka Brenden Angelides. To learn more about the drama, which follows a hard-driving U.S. attorney who clashes with a hedge fund titan, check out our previous news article. The series will air every Sunday night on Showtime and the first episode is already available to stream for free on various platforms.
Also premiering tonight is the mini-series Mercy Street created by Lisa Q. Wolfinger & David Zabel and starring Josh Radnor, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Gary Cole, Peter Gerety, Norbert Leo Butz, AnnaSophia Robb and Cherry Jones. David Buckley (The Good Wife, The Forbidden King) has composed the music for the 6-parter, which follows the lives of two volunteer nurses on opposing sides of the Civil War. Mercy Street will air on the next few Sunday nights on PBS. Click here and visit the official series website for more information.
Bernadette Peters’ ‘Come On a My House’ from ‘Mozart in the Jungle’ Released
Amazon Content Services has released the cover version of Come On a My House performed by actress Bernadette Peters from the Amazon original series Mozart in the Jungle. The song, which was written by Ross Bagdasarian & William Saroyan and originally performed by Rosemary Clooney, is featured in the second season of the show, which premiered today on Amazon Prime. The track is now available to download on Amazon. Click here to get more music from the show created by Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman & Alex Timbers and starring Gael García Bernal, Lola Kirke Saffron Burrows, Hannah Dunne, Malcolm McDowell and Peters.
Score Album for Amazon’s ‘Transparent’ Released
Amazon Content Services has released a score album for the Amazon Studios original series Transparent. The album features selections from the show’s original music composed by Dustin O’Halloran (Like Crazy, Breathe In, Equals) who received an Emmy Award earlier this year for his main title theme, which is also included on the release. The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Amazon has previously released a soundtrack album featuring the songs from the series. Transparent is created by Jill Soloway and stars Gaby Hoffmann, Jay Duplass, Amy Landecker, Judith Light and Jeffrey Tambor.
Jake Monaco Scoring ‘Kindergarten Cop 2’
Jake Monaco has recently composed the music for the upcoming comedy sequel Kindergarten Cop 2. The film is directed by Don Michael Paul (Half Past Dead) and stars Dolph Lundgren as an FBI agent who goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher to find a missing flash drive from the Federal Witness Protection Program. David H. Steinberg (American Pie 2, Slackers) has written the screenplay. Mike Elliott (The Devil’s Rejects, The Perfect Holiday) is producing the project from Universal Pictures’ 1440 Entertainment division.
Music from Amazon’s ‘The Man in the High Castle’ Released
Amazon Content Services has released several tracks from the soundtrack for the Amazon Studios original series The Man in the High Castle. Available to download now is the cover version of the Sound of Music song Edelweiss performed by Jeanette Olson as featured in the series. Click here to download the track. Also available digitally are four tracks from the show’s original score composed by Henry Jackman (Captain America: The Winter Soldier, X-Men: First Class, Big Hero 6) and Dominic Lewis (Free Birds, The DUFF): The Crown Prince’s Speech, Too Good For This World, Fate Is Fluid and A Grave Situation. The Man in the High Castle is created by Frank Spotnitz and stars Alexa Davalos, Luke Kleintank, Rupert Evans, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Joel De La Fuente, Rufus Sewell and DJ Qualls.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (November 15, 2015)
Premiering tonight is the AMC original series Into the Badlands created by Alfred Gough & Miles Millar and starring Daniel Wu, Marton Csokas, Aramis Knight, Emily Beecham, Sarah Bolger and Orla Brady. The show’s original music is composed by David Shephard (Longmire). Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda has written the drama’s title theme. To learn more about the series, which will air every Sunday night on AMC, check out our scoring assignment announcement.
Premiering on Tuesday, November 17, is the new NBC drama Chicago Med created by Michael Brandt & Derek Haas and starring Oliver Platt, S. Epatha Merkerson, Nick Gehlfuss, Yaya DaCosta, Colin Donnell, Torrey DeVitto and Rachel DiPillo. Atli Orvarsson (Vantage Point, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones) who is also scoring NBC’s Chicago Fire and Chicago P.D. is composing the show’s original music. Check out our previous news article for more information about the series, which will air Tuesday nights on NBC.
Dhani Harrison & Paul Hicks Scoring Amazon’s ‘Good Girls Revolt’
Dhani Harrison and Paul Hicks have composed the music for the Amazon Studios pilot Good Girls Revolt. The show is created by Dana Calvo (Made in Jersey) and stars Genevieve Angelson, Anna Camp, Erin Darke, Chris Diamantopoulos, Hunter Parrish, Jim Belushi, Joy Bryant and Grace Gummer as journalist Nora Ephron. The drama based on Lynn Povich’s book of the same title set in 1969 and follows a group of young female researchers at “News of the Week,” who simply ask to be treated fairly. Calvo is also executive producing the TriStar Television with Lynda Obst (Interstellar), Darlene Hunt (The Big C), Don Kurt (Justified) and Jeff Okin (Dark Skies).
Nick Urata Scoring Amazon’s ‘Highston’
Nick Urata has composed the music for the Amazon Studios pilot Highston. The show is created by Bob Nelson (Nebraska) and stars Lewis Pullman, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Chris Parnell, Curtis Armstrong, as well as guest stars Shaquille O’Neal and Flea. The comedy follows a 19-year-old with a wide circle of celebrity friends – whom only he can see. Nelson is also executive producing the project with Sacha Baron Cohen & Todd Schulman (Bruno, The Dictator) and Todd Hoffman (Love Stinks, Labor Pains). Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris have directed the pilot episode.