Chris Bacon has been chosen by Smash executive producer and composer Marc Shaiman to write the underscore for this season’s remaining episodes of the musical show. Shaiman has written the series’ underscore himself for the first six episodes and Bacon has taken over scoring duties with episode 7 (The Workshop), which premiered last night. Shaiman […]
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Chris Bacon to Score NBC’s ‘Smash’
Posted: March 20, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums, Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Chris Bacon, Marc Shaiman, NBC, Scott Wittman, Smash
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‘Smash’ Premieres Tonight on NBC
Posted: February 6, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Marc Shaiman, NBC, Scott Wittman, Smash
The musical drama Smash is premiering tonight on NBC. The show features original songs written by Academy Award-nominated composer Marc Shaiman (Hairspray, South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut) and Scott Wittman who are also also executive producing the show. Shaiman is also writing the original score. Columbia Records has already released the first two songs […]
Gabriel Mann to Score NBC’s ‘Bent’ and ABC Family’s ‘Jane by Design’
Posted: January 1, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: ABC Family, Bent, Gabriel Mann, Jane by Design, Lifetime, Modern Love, NBC
Gabriel Mann is scoring a couple of new TV shows that are set to premiere in 2012. Among the composer’s new projects is the half-hour comedy Bent. The series is created by Tad Quill (Scrubs, Spin City) and stars Amanda Peet as a recently divorced lawyer and David Walton as an irresponsible contractor and recovering […]
Fall 2011 Television Music Roundup (Part 4): NBC
Posted: December 4, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: David Schwartz, Ed Alton, Free Agents, Grimm, Kurt Farquhar, Martyn LeNoble, NBC, Prime Suspect, Richard Marvin, The Playboy Club, Transcenders, Up All Night, Vincent Jones, Wendy & Lisa, Whitney
In our fourth part of our fall television music series, we are taking a look at the new and returning shows on NBC: Among the new shows on the network that premiered this fall is the fantasy crime drama Grimm created by David Greenwalt & Jim Kouf and starring Russell Hornsby, David Giuntoli, Bitsie Tulloch, […]
Trevor Morris to Score NBC’s ‘The Firm’
Posted: November 9, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bending the Rules, Immortals, NBC, The Firm, Trevor Morris
Trevor Morris has signed on to score the TV series adaptation of the legal thriller The Firm. The show is based on the bestselling novel by John Grisham and the feature film adaptation starring Tom Cruise. Josh Lucas stars as attorney Mitchell McDeere who brought down the prestigious Memphis law firm of Bendini, Lambert & […]
Bear McCreary’s ‘The Cape’ Score Released
Posted: September 28, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bear McCreary, NBC, score, Soundtrack, The Cape
La-La Land Records has released a soundtrack album for the NBC superhero drama The Cape. The 2CD-set includes selections of the original score from the show by composer Bear McCreary. More than 150 minutes of music is included on the 2 disc release, which is limited to 2000 copies. To listen to audio clips and […]
Reinhold Heil & Johnny Klimek to Reunite with Tom Tykwer on ‘Cloud Atlas’
Posted: September 26, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Awake, Cloud Atlas, Johnny Klimek, NBC, Reinhold Heil, Tom Tykwer
Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek and Tom Tykwer have recently written and recorded music for the director’s upcoming sci-fi feature Cloud Atlas. The movie written and co-directed by Andy & Lana Wachowski and Tykwer stars Tom Hanks, Jim Sturgess, Halle Berry, Hugo Weaving, Susan Sarandon, Hugh Grant, Keith David, Ben Whishaw and Jim Broadbent. The film […]
Wendy & Lisa to Score NBC’s ‘Prime Suspect’
Posted: September 5, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Lisa Coleman, NBC, Prime Suspect, Wendy and Lisa, Wendy Melvoin
Wendy & Lisa are scoring the upcoming NBC police procedural drama Prime Suspect. The show is based on the BBC series with the same title starring Helen Mirren. Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights, The Kingdom) directed the pilot and is also executive producing the project. Alexandra Cunningham (Desperate Housewives) has written the pilot’s script and […]
Richard Marvin to Score NBC’s ‘Grimm’
Posted: August 30, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Grimm, NBC, Richard Marvin
Richard Marvin is scoring the new NBC fantasy crime drama Grimm. The show created by David Greenwalt (Angel) and Jim Kouf (Rush Hour, National Treasure) is inspired by the Grimm’s fairy tales and revolves around a homicide detective learns that he is a descendent of a group of hunters known as “Grimms”, who fight to […]
2011 Summer Television Music Roundup (Part 1)
Posted: July 16, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: ABC, Adam Gorgoni, Amin Bhatia, Ari Posner, Brandon Jay, Burn Notice, CBS, Chaos, Christopher Tyng, Combat Hospital, Covert Affairs, Danny Lux, David Schwartz, Edmund Butt, Evan Frankfort, Flashpoint, Gwendolyn Sanford, In Plain Sight, James Levine, John Dickson, John Swihart, Jon Ehrlich, Liz Phair, Love Bites, Marc Dauer, Marcelo Zarvos, NBC, Necessary Roughness, Ron Sures, Rookie Blue, Royal Pains, Samuel Sim, Showtime, Suits, The Big C, Toby Chu, Tree Adams, USA, Web Therapy, Weeds, White Collar
With an increasing number of major TV shows premiering during the summer months, Film Music Reporter presents a listing of this summer’s original shows and their composers. Featured in Part 1 of the Summer TV Roundup are the original shows on the networks (ABC, NBC, CBS), as well as on USA and Showtime. Check back […]
