Lakeshore Records will release the official soundtrack album for the Peacock original series Ponies. The album features selections of the show’s original score composed by Emmy Award nominee Jung Jaeil (Squid Game, Parasite, Okja, Twinless, Mickey 17, Broker, Tempest) who has made his American television scoring debut on the project. Also included are several tracks by Christopher Willis (The Death of Stalin, Veep, The Personal History of David Copperfield) who has also contributed music to the series. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, January 15 and will be available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the title track below. Ponies is created by David Iserson & Susanna Fogel and stars Emilia Clarke, Haley Lu Richardson, Nicholas Podany, Adrian Lester, Vic Michaelis, Artjom Gilz and Petro Ninovskyi. The espionage thriller follows a Russian-speaking child of Soviet immigrants and a small-town girl who work anonymously as secretaries in the American Embassy as they team up to uncover a vast Cold War conspiracy and solve the mystery behind their husbands’ murders.
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Weekly TV Music Roundup (January 11, 2025)
Premiering today is the second season of the British TV series The Night Manager created by David Farr based on the characters created by John le Carré and starring Tom Hiddleston, Diego Calva, Camila Morrone, Olivia Colman, Alistair Petrie, Michael Nardone, Douglas Hodge, Hayley Squires, Indira Varma, Paul Chahid and Noah Jupe. The new season’s original music is composed by Federico Jusid (The Secret in Their Eyes, A Gentleman in Moscow, A Thousand Blows, The English, The Penguin Lessons, Watership Down, The Eternaut, The Head, Misconduct). Check out our previous article to learn more about the spy thriller, which currently airs in the UK Sunday nights on BBC One and is making its U.S. debut on Prime Video.
Also premiering in the U.S. tonight is the British TV series Bookish created by Mark Gatiss and starring Gatiss himself, Polly Walker, Connor Finch, Elliot Levey, Blake Harrison and Buket Kömür. Sarah Warne (Des, Time, The Long Shadow, Humans, Dark Money, Hollington Drive, Steeltown Murders, The Drowning) has composed the show’s original music. Silva Screen Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score last July when the crime drama premiered in the UK on U&alibi. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and for more information about the series, which is making its domestic debut on PBS.
Jaeil Jung Scoring Peacock’s ‘Ponies’
Jaeil Jung (Parasite, Squid Game, Mickey 17, Okja, Twinless, Broker, Tempest) is making his American television scoring debut on the new Peacock original series Ponies. The show is created by David Iserson (The Spy Who Dumped Me) & Susanna Fogel (Cat Person, Winner) and stars Emilia Clarke, Haley Lu Richardson, Adrian Lester, Nicholas Podany, Artjom Gilz, Petro Ninovskyi and Vic Michaelis. The espionage thriller follows two “PONIES” (“persons of no interest” in intelligence speak) who become CIA operatives after their husbands are killed under mysterious circumstances in the USSR as they uncover a vast Cold War conspiracy and solve the mystery that made them widows in the first place.