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Weekly TV Music Roundup (September 14, 2025)

September 14, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring Assignments 0 comments

Making its linear debut in the U.S. tonight is the British TV series Reunion created by William Mager and starring Matthew Gurney, Lara Peake, Anne-Marie Duff, Rose Ayling-Ellis and Eddie Marsan. The show’s original music is composed by Jeremy Warmsley (Carnage, Big Mood, Homebound, Jalopy, The Power of Parker). Silva Screen Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score this past May following the drama’s UK debut on BBC One. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and to learn more about the 4-parter, which will air every Sunday night on Showtime and is also available to stream on Paramount+ for Premium Plan subcribers

Premiering on Tuesday, September 16, is the Netflix original documentary Rebel Royals: An Unlikely Love Story directed by Rebecca Chaiklin and produced by Chris Smith, Rebecca Chaiklin and Stacy Smith. Mark Yaeger (Embeds, Yoko, Valensole 1965) has composed the film’s original music. The movie, which goes behind the scenes with Märtha Louise and Shaman Durek Verrett in the lead-up to their divisive wedding in Norway, will be available to stream exclusively on Netflix.

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Soundtrack Album for BBC’s ‘Human’ Released

August 1, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music Albums 0 comments

Tags: BBC, Human, Paul Saunderson, PBS, score, Soundtrack

Silva Screen Records has released a soundtrack album for the BBC documentary series Human. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Paul Saunderson (Three Identical Strangers, Fight or Flight, Trying, Love at First Sight, Picture This, Starfish, The More You Ignore Me, The Grand Duke of Corsica). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack and also listen to the composer’s HUMAN Suite below. Human is hosted by Ella Al-Shamahi who reveals the human race’s story across 300,000 years of evolution and how we went from being just one of many types of human to the dominant form of life on the planet. The 5-parter produced by BBC Studios Science Unit in association with NOVA & GBH examines how Homo sapiens began to build civilizations and cities, accelerating our species’ advancement by recording and sharing the sum of human knowledge through a transformational technology: writing.

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‘Bookish’ Soundtrack Album Details

July 16, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music Albums 0 comments

Tags: Bookish, PBS, Sarah Warne, score, Soundtrack, U&Alibi

Silva Screen Records will release a soundtrack album for the U&alibi original series Bookish. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s first season composed by Sarah Warne (Des, Time, Humans, The Long Shadow, Dark Money, Steeltown Murders, Hollington Drive, The Drowning). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, July 18 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s main theme below. Bookish is created by Mark Gatiss and stars Gatiss himself, Polly Walker, Connor Finch, Elliot Levey, Blake Harrison and Buket Kömür. The crime drama is set in 1946 London and follows an unconventional antiquarian bookshop owner who helps the police to solve a variety of mysterious crimes.

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Weekly TV Music Roundup (June 15, 2025)

June 15, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring Assignments 0 comments

Premiering tonight is the National Geographic original documentary series Underdogs narrated by Ryan Reynolds and executive produced by Mark Linfield, Vanessa Berlowitz and Dan Ree. The show’s original music is composed by Harry Gregson-Williams (Shrek, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Martian, Gladiator 2, Mulan, Chicken Run, The Gilded Age, Kingdom of Heaven, Spy Game, The Meg). Hollywood Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score this past Friday. Check out our previous news article for the full album details and to learn more about the Wildstar production, which features a theme song by Green Day and will air on National Geographic and ABC before making its streaming debut tomorrow on Hulu and Disney+.

Also premiering in the U.S. tonight is the British TV series Patience created by Matt Baker based on the French TV format Astrid et Raphaëlle and starring Laura Fraser and Ella Maisy Purvis. Hannes De Maeyer (Gangsta, The Couple Next Door, Rebel, Noise, Professor T, Rafaël, Torpedo, The Racer) & Ruben De Gheselle (Young Hearts, Clara Sola, A Cops and Robbers Story) have composed the show’s original music. Silva Screen Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composers’ score this past March. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and for more information about the movie, which premiered in the UK earlier this year on Channel 4 and is making its U.S. debut on PBS.

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‘Hotel Portofino’ Season 2 Soundtrack Album Released

May 26, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music Albums 0 comments

Tags: Hotel Portofino, PBS, score, Soundtrack, Stefano Cabrera

Orange Home Records has released a new soundtrack album for the British TV series Hotel Portofino. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s second season composed by Stefano Cabrera (Terry Pratchett’s The Abominable Snow Baby). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s first two tracks below. Silva Screen Records has previously released an album featuring Cabrera’s score from Season 1 back in 2022. Hotel Portofino is created by Matt Baker and stars Natascha McElhone, Oliver Dench, Mark Umbers, Assad Zaman, Pasquale Esposito, Adam James, Elizabeth Carling, Lucy Akhurst, Olivia Morris and Lily Frazer.

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Weekly TV Music Roundup (May 4, 2025)

May 4, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring Assignments 0 comments

Tags: Amazon, Dominik Scherrer, Forever, Gary Gunn, Hulu, Matt Bowen, Miss Austen, Netflix, Octopus!, PBS, Siddhartha Khosla, Summer of 69

Premiering in the U.S. tonight is the British TV series Miss Austen written by Andrea Gibb based on Gill Hornby’s novel and starring Keeley Hawes, Rose Leslie, Patsy Ferran, Phyllis Logan, Synnøve Karlsen, Max Irons, Jessica Hynes, Alfred Enoch, Kevin McNally, Calam Lynch, Mirren Mack and Liv Hill. The show’s original music is composed by Dominik Scherrer (The Missing, The Tourist, The Widow, Primeval, Baptiste, The Serpent, Ripper Street, The Confessions of Frannie Langton, Requiem). Dubois Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score this past February following its debut in the UK on BBC One. Check out our previous article for the full album details to learn more about the period drama, which is making its U.S. premiere on PBS.

Premiering on Thursday, May 8, is the Netflix original series Forever created by Mara Brock Akil based on Judy Blume’s novel of the same name and starring Lovie Simone, Michael Cooper Jr., Karen Pittman, Xosha Roquemore, Wood Harris, Marvin Winans III, Niles Fitch, Ali Gallo, Adriyan Rae, Barry Shabaka Henley, Paigion Walker, E’myri Crutchfield and Xavier Mills. Gary Gunn (A Thousand and One, Quad Gods, Maggie Black, David Makes Man, Master of Light) has composed the show’s original music. Netflix Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score this past Friday. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and for more information about the romantic drama, which will be available to stream exclusively on Netflix.

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‘A Dangerous Friendship’ Soundtrack Album Released

April 22, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music Albums 0 comments

Tags: A Dangerous Friendship, Cryille Aufort, PBS, score, Soundtrack, Une amitié dangereuse

MovieScore Media has released a soundtrack album for the French limited series A Dangerous Friendship (Une amitié dangereuse). The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Cyrille Aufort (A Royal Affair, Splice, (March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step, The Other Story, Antarctica Calling, Heart of Oak, Ombline). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the composer’s first track (Anne and Louis) below. A Dangerous Friendship is created by Alain Tasma (who also directed all four episodes) & Henri Helman and stars Nelly Depeault, Stephanie Gil, Jérémy Gillet, Arthur Dupont, Stanley Weber, Clémentine Poidatz, Raïka Hazanavicius, Jack Laskey, Grégoire Colin, Patrick D’assumçao and Maya Sansa. The drama based on Juliette Benzoni’s historical romance novels and explores the relationship that develops between two startlingly different, yet equally powerful, women in 17th century France: the free-spirited Marie de Rohan, Duchess of Chevreuse and the shy, extremely proud, straight-laced Anne of Austria, Queen of France.

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Weekly TV Music Roundup (March 23, 2025)

March 23, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring Assignments 0 comments

Tags: Alex Somers, Alexander and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Road Trip, Amazon, Antonio Sanchez, Apple TV +, Camilo Lara, Debbie Wiseman, Disney Plus, Holland, Netflix, PBS, Side Quest, Takeshi Furukawa, The Life List, The Studio, Will Bates, Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light

Premiering in the U.S tonight is the British TV series Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light adapted for television by Peter Straughan, directed by Peter Kosminsky and starring Mark Rylance, Damian Lewis, Jonathan Pryce, Harriet Walter, Timothy Spall, Charlie Rowe, Kate Phillips, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Lilit Lesser, Harry Melling and Alex Jennings. The show’s original music is composed and conducted by Debbie Wiseman (Wilde, Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Dickensian, Father Brown, Vampire Killers, Haunted, Flood). Silva Screen Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score. Click here for the full album details and to learn more about the 6-part drama, which premiered in the UK last fall on BBC and is making its U.S. debut on PBS as part of the Masterpiece series.

Premiering on Wednesday, March 26, is the Apple TV+ original anthology series Side Quest based on the streamer’s Mythic Quest and starring Rob McElhenney, Annamarie Kasper, Esai Morales, Shalita Grant, Rome Flynn, Bria Henderson, Ramon Reed, William Stanford Davis and Leonard Robinson. Takeshi Furukawa (Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Last Guardian, Planet of Lana) has composed the show’s original music. Check out our previous news article for more information about the 4-part comedy, which will be available to stream exclusively on Apple TV+.

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Soundtrack Album for Channel 4’s ‘Patience’ Announced

March 11, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music Albums 0 comments

Tags: Channel 4, Hannes De Maeyer, Patience, PBS, Ruben De Gheselle, score, Soundtrack

Silva Screen Records has announced a soundtrack album for the Channel 4 original drama Patience. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Hannes De Maeyer (Gangsta, Rebel, The Couple Next Door, Noise, Professor T, Torpedo, Rafaël, The Racer) & Ruben De Gheselle (Young Hearts, A Cops and Robbers Story, Clara Sola). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, March 14 (visit Amazon to stream/download). Also check out De Maeyer’s main titles track below. Patience is created by Matt Baker based on the French TV series Astrid et Raphaëlle and stars Laura Fraser and Ella Maisy Purvis. The 6-part crime drama revolves around a young autistic woman wit an instinctive eye for crime scenes who works in the criminal records department of Yorkshire Police as she enters an unpredictable world when a detectivespots her unique crime-solving skills.

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‘Marie Antoinette’ Season 2 Soundtrack Album Released

March 3, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music Albums 0 comments

Tags: BBC, Guillaume Roussel, Marie-Antoinette, PBS, score, Soundtrack

22D Music has released a new soundtrack album for the historical drama series Marie Antoinette. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s second season composed by Guillaume Roussel (Black Beauty, The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan & Milady, 3 Days to Kill, Lift, The Spy, Expend4bles, Happy!, November, The Man with the Iron Heart). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services. The label has previously released an album featuring Roussel’s music from Season 1 back in 2022. Marie Antoinette is created by Deborah Davis and stars Emilia Schüle, Louis Cunningham, Freya Mavor, Jack Archer, Jasmine Blackborow, Crystal Shepherd-Cross, Oscar Lesage, Roxane Duran and Caroline Piette. The period drama continues to chronicle the life of one of history’s most influential and controversial figures.

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