Lakeshore Records will release a score album for the Hulu original series Casual. The album features the original music from the show’s first season composed by Mateo Messina (Juno, Butter, The Angriest Man in Brooklyn, Barely Lethal), as well as additional music by Rolfe Kent (Sideways, Up in the Air, Thank You for Smoking, Labor Day). The soundtrack will be released digitally on November 27, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. A physical release is set to come out in early 2016. Casual is created by Zander Lehmann and stars Tommy Dewey, Michaela Watkins and Tara Lynn Barr. The show is executive produced by Jason Reitman and centers on a dysfunctional family with a bachelor brother and his newly divorced sister who coach each other through the world of dating while living under the same roof again and raising a teenager.
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Weekly TV Music Roundup (October 4, 2015)
Premiering in the U.S. tonight is the British TV series Home Fires starring Samantha Bond, Francesca Annis, Ed Stoppard, Ruth Gemmell, Claire Rushbrook, Frances Grey, Clare Calbraith and Rachel Hurd-Wood. The show’s original music is composed by Samuel Sim (Awake). Home Fires based on the book Jambusters by Julie Summers is set during World War II and follows a group of inspirational women in a rural Cheshire community. The ITV Studios production will air as part of PBS’ Masterpiece on Sunday nights. Visit the official show website for more information.
Mateo Messina Scoring Hulu’s ‘Casual’ and NBC’s ‘Truth Be Told’ & ‘Superstore’
Mateo Messina is composing the music for the new Hulu original series Casual. The show is created by Zander Lehmann and stars Tommy Dewey, Michaela Watkins and Tara Lynn Barr. The series centers on a dysfunctional family with a bachelor brother and his newly divorced sister who coach each other through the world of dating while living under the same roof again and raising a teenager. Jason Reitman has directed the first episodes and is also executive producing the Lionsgate Television production with Lehmann, Helen Estabrook (Whiplash, Men, Women & Children) and Liz Tigelaar.