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Weekly TV Music Roundup (November 22, 2020)

Premiering today is the Netflix original film Christmas on the Square directed by Debbie Allen and starring Dolly Parton, Christine Baranski, Treat Williams, Jeanine Mason, Josh Segarra, Mary Lane Haskell and Jenifer Lewis. The film’s original music is composed by Dolly Parton (who wrote 14 original songs for the project) and conducted by Larry Blank. The holiday musical, which follows a small town “Scrooge” as she’s visited by a rhinestone-bedazzled angel who guides her on a musical journey of redemption, is now available to stream exclusively on Netflix.

Premiering tomorrow, November 23, is the FX and BBC limited series Black Narcissus developed by Amanda Coe based on the novel of the same title by Rumer Godden and starring Gemma Arterton, Alessandro Nivola, Diana Rigg, Aisling Franciosi, Jim Broadbent, Rosie Cavaliero, Patsy Ferran, Karen Bryson, Nila Aalia, Kulvinder Ghir, Chaneil Kular, Gina McKee, Soumil Malla, Dipika Kunwar,and Gianni Gonsalves. The show’s original music is composed by Anne Dudley (The Full Monty, American History X, The Crying Game, Poldark, The Hustle). Check out our previous article to learn more about the drama, which will air on Monday on FX and will also be available the following day on FX on Hulu.

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Soundtrack Album for Dan Gabriel’s ‘Mosul’ Documentary to Be Released

Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the documentary Mosul. The album features the film’s original music written by Grammy-nominated British record producer and composer Photek (How to Get Away with Murder, Station 19, Gang Related). The soundtrack will be released digitally next Friday, July 19 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Mosul is directed by Dan Gabriel and follows a diverse group of militias and security forces with conflicting interests which banded together in 2016 to free Mosul and its population of 1.3 million from the harsh rule of ISIS. The documentary was released this past May by Gravitas Ventures and is now available on VOD, Blu-ray and DVD.

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Henry Jackman Scoring Matthew Michael Carnahan’s ‘Mosul’

Henry Jackman (Wreck-It-Ralph, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, X-Men: First Class, Big Hero 6, Kong: Skull Island) has recently scored the upcoming thriller Mosul. The film is marks the directorial debut of screenwriter Matthew Michael Carnahan (World War Z, Deepwater Horizon, The Kingdom) and tells of the true story of an elite police unit made up almost entirely of native sons of Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, who fought to liberate it from 6,000 ISIS militants who overran it in 2014. Carnahan also wrote the screenplay based on articles by Luke Mogelson. 

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