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Weekly TV Music Roundup (January 7, 2024)

Premiering today is the Fox animated comedy Grimsburg created by Catlan McClelland & Matthew Schlissel and starring Jon Hamm, Erinn Hayes, Alan Tudyk, Rachel Dratch, Greg Chun and Kevin Michael Richardson. The show’s original music is composed by Jesse Novak (BoJack Horseman, Tuca & Bertie, The Mindy Project, The Baby-Sitters Club, Champions, Blockbuster). Check out our previous news article to learn more about the Bento Box Entertainment production, which will air every Sunday on FOX.

Also premiering in the U.S. today is the British comedy Funny Woman developed by Morwenna Banks based on Nick Hornby’s novel Funny Girl and starring Gemma Arterton, Rupert Everett, Tom Bateman, Clare-Hope Ashitey, David Threlfall, Alexa Davies, Arsher Ali and Emily Bevans. Nainita Desai (The Deepest Breath, For Sama, The Reason I Jump, Crossfire, The Tower, American Murder: The Family Next Door) has composed the show’s original score. Sky Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score last year when the series premiered in the UK on Sky. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the album details. The comedy is making its U.S. debut on PBS.

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Neil Davidge & Mikey J Asante Scoring Apple TV+’s ‘Criminal Record’

Neil Davidge (Halo 4, Unleashed, Push, Britannia, Earth Moods, Monsters: Dark Continent, Good People) and Mikey J Asante (Queen Cleopatra) have composed the original music for the new British Apple TV+ original series Criminal Record. The show is created by Paul Rutman (Next of Kin, Indian Summers) and stars Peter Capaldi, Cush Jumbo, Charlie Creed-Miles, Shaun Dooley, Dionne Brown, Stephen Campbell Moore, Zoë Wanamaker, Maisie Ayres, Rasaq Kukoyi, Aysha Kala, Cathy Tyson and Tom Moutchi. The 8-part crime thriller follows two detectives, one a well-connected man determined to protect his legacy and the other a young woman in the early stages of her career, as they are drawn into a confrontation over an old murder case.

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Neil Davidge Scoring Sky’s ‘The Fear Index’

Neil Davidge (Unleashed, Push, Halo 4, Earth Moods, Britannia, Monsters: Dark Continent, Good People) has recently been recording his score for the upcoming Sky original limited series The Fear Index. The show is written by Caroline Bartleet & Paul Andrew Williams (London to Brighton, Unfinished Song, White Dragon) based on the best-selling novel by Robert Harris (Enigma, An Officer and a Spy) and stars Josh Hartnett, Leila Farzad, Arsher Ali and Grégory Montel. The 4-part thriller follows an American ex-pat physicist and computer genius who creates an AI-driven system that exploits fear in the financial markets and operates at lightning speed to make big returns.

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‘Britannia’ Season 3 Soundtrack Album Released

SATV has released a new soundtrack album for the Sky original drama Britannia. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s third season composed by Neil Davidge (Unleashed, Push, Halo 4, Earth Moods, Monsters: Dark Continent, Hard Sun, Good People). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on all major digital music platforms, including Amazon. The label has previously released the composer’s music from the second season while 7Hz Productions has released his score from the first season. Britannia is created by Jez Butterworth, Tom Butterworth & James Richardson and stars David Morrissey, Zoë Wanamaker, Nikolaj Lie Kaas Eleanor Worthington-Cox, Hugo Speer, Mackenzie Crook, Daniel Caltagirone, Zaqi Ismail, Sophie Okonedo, Annabel Scholey and Julian Rhind-Tutt.

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Neil Davidge Scoring National Geographic’s ‘Earth Moods’

Neil Davidge (Unleashed, Push, Halo 4, Monsters: Dark Continent, Britannia, Hard Sun, Good People) has composed the original music for National Geographic’s upcoming short-form visual series Earth Moods. The show is produced and edited by Ryan Fouss and takes viewers on the ultimate retreat – transporting them to a vast array of colorful and calming corners of the world. Over five episodes, viewers travel to blue glaciers, arid deserts, lush rainforests and pulsating metropolises to escape from the cacophony of everyday life.

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Weekly TV Music Roundup (March 4, 2018)

Premiering on Wednesday, March 7, in the U.S. is the crime drama series Hard Sun created by Neil Cross and starring Agyness Deyn, Jim Sturgess and Nikki Amuka-Bird. The show’s original music is composed by Neil Davidge (Unleashed, Push, Monsters: Dark Continent, Britannia, Good People). The series, which follows detective who seeks to enforce the law and protect their loved ones in a world that every day slips closer to certain destruction, premiered in January in the UK on BBC One and is making its U.S. debut on Wednesday on Hulu.

Also premiering on Wednesday is the new CW comedy drama Life Sentence created by Erin Cardillo & Richard Keith and starring Lucy Hale, Carlos PenaVega, Elliot Knight, Dylan Walsh, Gillian Vigman, Jayson Blair and Brooke Lyons. The composing duo of WAZ-Jackson (Cougar Town, Surviving Jack) is composing the show’s original music. The series follows a young woman who was diagnosed with terminal cancer and has to learn to live with the choices she made when she decided to “live like she was dying”. To learn more about the series, which will air Wednesday nights on the CW, visit the official show website.

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Weekly TV Music Roundup (January 21, 2018)

Premiering tonight is the new Starz original series Counterpart created by Justin Marks and starring J.K. Simmons, Olivia Williams, Harry Lloyd, Nazanin Boniadi, Nicholas Pinnock, Sara Serraiocco, Ulrich Thomson, Mido Hamada, Stephen Rea, Richard Schiff and Kenneth Choi. The show’s original music is composed by Jeff Russo (Fargo, Star Trek: Discovery, The Night Of, Legion, Snowfall). Check out our scoring assignment announcement and the official show website to learn more about the series, which will air Sunday nights on Starz. 

Also premiering tonight is the new Fox drama The Resident created by Amy Holden Jones, Hayley Schore & Roshan Sethi and starring Matt Czuchry, Bruce Greenwood, Emily VanCamp, Manish Dayal and Shaunette Wilson. Jon Ehrlich & Jason Derlatka (House, Parenthood, Goliath, The Slap, About a Boy) are composing the show’s original music. Click here to for more information about the show, which follows a young doctor who begins his first day under the supervision of a tough, brilliant senior resident and will air Monday nights son Fox.

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Soundtrack for Sky’s & Amazon’s ‘Britannia’ Released

7Hz Productions has released a soundtrack album for the Sky and Amazon period drama Britannia. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Neil Davidge (Push, Unleashed, Monsters: Dark Continent, Halo 4, Hard Sun). The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Britannia is created by Jez Butterworth (Spectre), Tom Butterworth & James Richardson and stars Kelly Reilly, David Morrissey, Zoë Wanamaker, Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Eleanor Worthington-Cox. The series executive produced by Sam Mendes is set in 43AD as the Roman Imperial Army returns to crush the Celtic heart of Britannia, a mysterious land ruled by wild warrior women and powerful Druids who can channel the powerful forces of the underworld.

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Weekly TV Music Roundup (November 8, 2015)

agent-xPremiering tonight is the new TNT original series Agent X created by William Blake Herron and starring Sharon Stone, Jeff Hephner, Gerald McRaney, Jamey Sheridan, John Shea, Mike Colter and James Earl Jones. The show’s original music is composed by Trevor Rabin (Remember the Titans, Con Air, National Treasure, Armageddon) and Paul Linford (12 Monkeys). Agent X takes place in a world where America’s Founding Fathers created a secret position for a skilled government agent to protect the country from dangerous threats. To learn more about the drama, which will air every Sunday night on TNT, visit the official show website.

flesh-and-boneAlso premiering tonight is the Starz original series Flesh and Bone created by Moira Walley-Beckett and starring Sarah Hay, Irina Dvorovenko, Sascha Radetsky, Raychel Diane Weiner, Emily Tyra and Damon Herriman. Dave Porter (Breaking Bad, The Blacklist) is composing the show’s original music. Flesh and Bone follows a young ballet dancer with a distinctly troubled past, as she joins a prestigious ballet company in New York. The series will air Sunday nights on Starz. Visit the official show website for more information.

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Neil Davidge Scoring ‘A Hundred Streets’

neil-davidgeNeil Davidge is currently scoring the upcoming drama A Hundred Streets. The film is directed by Jim O’Hanlon and stars Idris Elba, Gemma Arterton, Samantha Barks, Ken Stott, Charlie Creed-Miles, Steve Mackintosh, Tom Cullen and Emma Rigby. The movie centers around a group of London residents who survive the grind of everyday life as well as those living opulent lifestyles, whose existences interconnect as they face dramatic change. Leon Butler wrote the screenplay and is also producing the project with Elba, Pippa Cross (The Hole, Desert Dancer), Carl F Pauwels, Farah Durrani and Ros Hubbard.

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