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Weekly TV Music Roundup (November 28, 2021)

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Premiering tonight is the National Geographic event series The Hot Zone: Anthrax created by Kelly Souders & Brian Peterson and starring Daniel Dae Kim, Tony Goldwyn, Dawn Olivieri,Morgan Kelly, Ian Colletti, Denyce Lawton, Vanessa Matsui, Carlos Gonzalez-Vio, Enrico Colantoni and Harry Hamlin. The show’s original music is composed by John Paesano (Daredevil, The Maze Runner, Invincible, Penny Dreadful: City of Angels, When the Game Stands Tall, The Star). Check out our previous news article to learn more about the 6-parter, which will air on National Geographic and will also be available to stream on Hulu.

Premiering tomorrow, November 29, is the documentary 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible directed by Torquil Jones and executive produced by Jimmy Chin & Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi. Nainita Desai (For Sama, The Reason I Jump, The Tower, American Murder: The Family Next Door,  Sophie: A Murder in West Cork, Telling Lies, Enemy Within)  has composed the film’s original music. Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score this past Friday. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and for more information about the movie, which will be available to stream on Netflix.

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Anna Waronker Scoring HBO Max’s ‘Santa Inc.’

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Anna Waronker is the composer of the new HBO Max animated series Santa Inc.. She has written by the score and original songs for the show created by Alexandra Rushfield (Love) and featuring the voices of Sarah Silverman, Seth Rogen, Leslie Grossman, Gabourey Sidibe, Craig Robinson, Maria Bamford, Nicholas Braun and Joel Kim Booster. The adult stop-motion animated comedy revolves around an intrepid elf who will do anything to be named as the first female Santa.

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Weekly TV Music Roundup (November 14, 2021)

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Premiering today is the Paramount+ original series Mayor of Kingstown created by Taylor Sheridan & Hugh Dillon and starring Jeremy Renner, Dianne Wiest, Kyle Chandler, Taylor Handley, Dillon himself, Emma Laird and Tobi Bamtefa. The show’s original music is composed by Andrew Lockington (San Andreas, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Frontier, Rampage, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, City of Ember, The Space Between Us). Check out our previous news article to learn more about the drama, which will be available to stream exclusively on Paramount+.

Also premiering today is the Showtime original series Yellowjackets created by Ashley Lyle & Bart Nickerson and starring Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci, Juliette Lewis,  Warren Kole, Tawny Cypress, Ella Purnell, Samantha Hanratty, Sophie Nélisse, Sophie Thatcher, Steven Krueger and Jasmin Savoy Brown. Theodore Shapiro (The Devil Wears Prada, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Bombshell,  Tropic Thunder, Destroyer, Ghostbusters) has composed the original score for the pilot episode and Anna Waronker (Shrill, The Republic of Sarah, Call Me Kat) is scoring the later episodes. Click here for more information about the drama, which will air Sunday nights on Showtime.

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Showtime’s ‘Yellowjackets’ to Feature Music by Theodore Shapiro, Craig Wedren & Anna Waronker

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Theodore Shapiro (The Devil Wears Prada, Bombshell, Spy, Tropic Thunder, Ghostbusters, Marley & Me) has composed the original score for the first episode of the new Showtime original series Yellowjackets. Craig Wedren (Role Models, We Hot American Summer, The School of Rock, GLOW) & Anna Waronker (Shrill, Call Me Kat, The Republic of Sarah) are scoring the later episodes of the show created by Ashley Lyle & Bart Nickerson and starring Melanie Lynskey, Juliette Lewis, Christina Ricci, Tawny Cypress, Warren Kole, Ella Purnell, Samantha Hanratty, Sophie Thatcher, Sophie Nélisse, Steven Krueger and Jasmin Savoy Brown. The drama follows a team of wildly talented high school girls soccer players who become the survivors of a plane crash deep in the remote northern wilderness.

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Craig Wedren & Anna Waronker Scoring The CW’s ‘The Republic of Sarah’

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Craig Wedren (Role Models, Wet Hot American Summer, School of Rock, GLOW, How to Be a Latin Lover) & Anna Waronker (Shrill) are the composers of the new CW drama The Republic of Sarah. The show is created by Jeffrey Paul King and stars Stella Baker, Luke Mitchell, Hope Lauren, Nia Holloway, Ian Duff, Forrest Goodluck, Landry Bender, Izabella Alvarez and Megan Follows. The series centers on a rebellious high school history teacher who is faced with the destruction of her town at the hands of a mining company and utilizes an obscure cartographical loophole to declare independence.

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Weekly TV Music Roundup (January 10, 2021)

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Premiering in the U.S. tonight is the British series All Creatures Great and Small written by Ben Vanstone based on the classic BBC programme, directed by Brian Percival and starring Nicholas Ralph, Samuel West, Anna Madeley, Callum Woodhouse and Rachel Shenton The show’s original music is composed by Alexandra Harwood (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, The Escape, Growing Up Wild). All3Media & Playground Television have released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score when the drama premiered in the UK last year. Click here for the full album details and to learn more about the series, which will air in the U.S. on PBS.

Also premiering today is the HBO documentary Tiger directed by Matthew Heineman & Matthew Hamachek about the rise, fall, and epic comeback of global icon Tiger Woods. H. Scott Salinas (The Banker, The Ballad of Lefty Brown, Warrior, Birth of the Dragon, Sea of Shadows) has composed the original music for the 2-parter. Check out our previous news article for more information about the documentary, which is premiering on HBO today and next Sunday, January 17 and will also be available to stream on HBO Max.

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Anna Waronker Scoring Fox’s ‘Call Me Kat’

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Singer/songwriter Anna Waronker is the composer of the new Fox comedy Call Me Kat. The show is based on the British series Miranda created by Miranda Hart and stars Mayim Bialik, Swoosie Kurtz, Leslie Jordan, Kyla Pratt, Cheyenne Jackson and Julian Gant. The series revolves around a woman who struggles every day against society and her mother to prove that she can live a happy and fulfilling life despite still being single at 39. Darlene Hunt (The Big C) is the project’s showrunner and is also executive producing the Warner Bros. Television and FOX Entertainment production with Hart, Bialik, Jim Parsons, Todd Spiewak (Young Sheldon), Angie Stephenson (The Night Of), as well as Beth McCarthy-Miller who also directed the first episode.

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Weekly TV Music Roundup (March 10, 2019)

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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.

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Craig Wedren & Anna Waronker Scoring Hulu’s ‘Shrill’

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Craig Wedren (Wet Hot American Summer, Role Models, The School of Rock, How to Be a Latin Lover) & Anna Waronker are the composers of the upcoming Hulu original series Shrill. The show is based on Lindy West’s 2016 memoir Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman and stars Aidy Bryant, Lolly Adefope, Luka Jones, Ian Owens, Julia Sweeney and John Cameron Mitchell. The comedy centers on a fat young woman who wants to change her life – but not her body, and is trying to start her career while juggling bad boyfriends, a sick parent, and a perfectionist boss.

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