Record producer/songwriter Andrew Watt has made his television scoring debut on the new HBO original series Rooster. He also co-wrote the theme song with R.E.M. lead singer Michael Stipe who also performs the song. The show is created by Bill Lawrence (Ted Lasso, Scrubs) & Matt Tarses (Bad Monkey) and stars Steve Carell, Charly Clive, Danielle Deadwyler, John C. McGinley, Phil Dunster and Lauren Tsai. The comedy is set on a college campus and explores an author’s complicated relationship with his daughter.
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WAZ-JACKSON Scoring Apple TV+’s ‘Bad Monkey’
The composer duo of WAZ-JACKSON (aka Jamie Jackson & Waz) is reuniting with writer/producer/director Bill Lawrence on the upcoming Apple TV+ original series Bad Monkey. The show is developed by Lawrence (Ted Lasso, Scrubs) based on the bestselling novel by Carl Hiaasen and stars Vince Vaughn, L. Scott Caldwell, Rob Delaney, Meredith Hagner, Alex Moffat, Natalie Martinez, Michelle Monaghan, Ronald Peet, Jodie Turner-Smith and Scott Glenn. The 10-part drama follows a former Miami PD officer turned health inspector in the Keys who stumbles upon a case that begins with a human arm fished up by tourists and sees an opportunity to prove that he can solve murder.
Tom Howe Scoring Apple TV+’s ‘Shrinking’
Tom Howe (A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon, Early Man, Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, The People We Hate at the Wedding) is scoring the new Apple TV+ original series Shrinking. The show is created by Jason Segel, Bill Lawrence (Scrubs, Cougar Town) & Brett Goldstein (Soulmates) and stars Harrison Ford, Segel himself, Jessica Williams, Michael Urie, Luke Tennie, Christa Miller and Lukita Maxwell. The comedy revolves around a grieving therapist who starts to break the rules and tell his clients exactly what he thinks and finds himself making huge changes to people’s lives – including his own.