Clinton Shorter (District 9, Contraband, 2 Guns) is the new composer of the ABC drama Quantico. The composer is scoring the third season of the show created by Joshua Safran and starring Priyanka Chopra, Jake McLaughlin, Johanna Braddy, Russell Tovey, Alan Powell, Marlee Matlin and Blair Underwood. Michael Seitzman, Russell Lee Fine, Adam Armus, Robert Sertner, Mark Gordon & Nicholas Pepper are executive producing the ABC Studios production. Joel J. Richard (John Wick) has previously scored the first season of the series and Joseph Trapanese (Straight Outta Compton, Oblivion) composed the music for the second season.
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Soundtrack for Syfy’s ‘The Expanse’ Announced
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the Syfy original series The Expanse. The album features the show’s original music composed by Clinton Shorter (District 9, Contraband, Pompeii, Code Black, 2 Guns). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, May 20 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. The Expanse is created by Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby based on the New York Times-bestselling series of novels of the same title and stars Thomas Jane, Steven Strait, Shohreh Aghdashlo, Florence Faivre, Jay Hernandez, Cas Anvar, Dominique Tipper, Wes Chatham and Paulo Costanzo. The series is set 200 years in the future, after mankind has colonized the solar system and follows a detective and a rogue ship’s captain who come together for what starts as the case of a missing woman and evolves into a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (January 10, 2016)
Premiering on Tuesday, January 12, is the new Freeform/ABC Family original series Shadowhunters based on the young adult fantasy book series The Mortal Instruments and starring Katherine McNamara, Dominic Sherwood, Alberto Rosende, Emeraude Toubia, Matthew Daddario, Isaiah Mustafa, David Castro and Harry Shum Jr. The show’s original music is composed by Ben Decter (CSI: Cyber, Hostages, Extant). To learn more about the series, which will air every Tuesday night on Freeform, check out our scoring assignment announcement.
Premiering on Wednesday, January 13, is the new Fox drama Second Chance created by Rand Ravich, produced by Howard Gordon and starring Rob Kazinsky, Dilshad Vadsaria, Adhir Kalyan, Tim DeKay and Ciara Bravo. John Paesano (Daredevil, The Maze Runner, Where the Game Stands Tall, Dragons: Riders of Berk) is composing the show’s original music. For more information about the series, which follows a morally corrupt cop who is given a second chance when he’s brought back, visit the official show website. Second Chance will air Wednesday nights on Fox.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (December 13, 2015)
Premiering tomorrow, December 14, is the Syfy original mini-series Childhood’s End based on the sci-fi novel by Arthur C. Clarke of the same title and starring Charles Dance, Mike Vogel, Daisy Betts, Yael Stone, Julian McMahon, Osy Ikhile and Colm Meaney. The show’s original music is composed by Charlie Clouser (Saw, Wayward Pines, Numbers, Resident Evil: Extinction). To learn more about the 6-parter, which centers on a peaceful alien invasion of Earth by the mysterious Overlords, visit our previous news article. The full series will air on three consecutive nights this week.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (September 27, 2015)
Premiering tonight is the new ABC drama Quantico created by Joshua Safran and starring Priyanka Chopra, Jake McLaughlin, Aunjanue Ellis, Yasmine Al Massri, Johanna Braddy, Tate Ellington and Graham Rogers. The show’s original music is composed by Joel J. Richard (John Wick, The Andromeda Strain, Ravenswood). To learn more about the series, which follows a group of young FBI recruits, who battle their way through training at the Quantico base in Virginia, check out our previous article. Quantico will air Sunday nights on ABC.
Also premiering tonight on ABC is the new drama Blood & Oil created by Josh Pate & Rodes Fishburne and starring Don Johnson, Chace Crawford, Rebecca Rittenhouse, Delroy Lindo, Scott Michael Foster, India de Beaufort, Amber Valletta, Adan Canto, Yani Gellman and Caitlin Carver. Mark Isham (Once Upon a Time, American Crime, Crash, A River Runs Through It) is composing the show’s original music. To learn more about Blood & Oil, check out our scoring assignment announcement.
Clinton Shorter to Score USA’s ‘Colony’
Clinton Shorter has been tapped to score the upcoming USA original series Colony. The show is created by Carlton Cuse (Lost, Bates Motel) & Ryan J. Condal (Hercules) and stars Josh Holloway, Sarah Wayne Callies, Peter Jacobson, Amanda Righetti, Tory Kittles, Alex Neustaedter and Isabella Crovetti-Cramp. The series is set in the near future and centers on a family who must make difficult decisions as they balance staying together with trying to survive. Cuse and Condal are also executive producing the Legendary Television and Universal Cable production with Holloway and Nelson McCormick.
CBS’ ‘Code Black’ to Feature Music by Clinton Shorter
Clinton Shorter is composing the music for the upcoming CBS medical drama Code Black. The show is created by Michael Seitzman (North Country, Here On Earth) and stars Marcia Gay Harden, Bonnie Somerville, Raza Jaffrey, Luis Guzmán, Melanie Chandra, Harry M. Ford, Benjamin Hollingsworth and William Allen Young. The series is based on Ryan McGarry’s feature documentary about an understaffed emergency room team at Los Angeles County Hospital.
Clinton Shorter to Score Syfy’s ‘The Expanse’
Clinton Shorter has been hired to score the upcoming Syfy event series The Expanse. The show is created by Academy Award-winning writers Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby (Children of Men, Iron Man) based on the New York Times bestselling series of novels of the same title and stars Thomas Jane, Steven Strait, Shohreh Aghdashlo, Florence Faivre, Jay Hernandez, Cas Anvar, Dominique Tipper, Wes Chatham and Paulo Costanzo. The series is set two hundred years in the future, after mankind has colonized the solar system and follows a hardened detective and a rogue ship’s captain who come together for what starts as the case of a missing woman and evolves into a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.
Clinton Shorter Takes Over Scoring Duties on Showtime’s ‘House of Lies’
Clinton Shorter revealed in an interview with The Film Yap that he is the new composer of the Showtime original series House of Lies. The show is created and executive produced by Matthew Carnahan, Jessika Borsiczky & David Walpert and stars Kristen Bell, Don Cheadle, Ben Schwartz and Josh Lawson. The series follows a group of management consultants who stop at nothing to get business deals done. Demetri Martin and Valorie Curry are guest starring in the new season.
‘District 9’ Deluxe Expanded Edition Soundtrack Announced
SPACELAB9 and Madison Gate Records have announced a Double LP soundtrack release for the 2009 sci-fi thriller District 9 directed by Neill Blomkamp and starring Sharlto Copley. The deluxe expanded edition includes the eleven tracks from the original 30 minute album from 2009, plus an additional eight bonus tracks comprising 25 minutes of previously unreleased original score composed by Clinton Shorter (Contraband, Pompeii, 2 Guns). The soundtrack will be released on November 25, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. District 9 was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Adapted Screenplay, Editing and Visual Effects.