MovieScore Media will release the first soundtrack album for the Syfy original series Van Helsing. The album feature selections of the original score from all five seasons of the show composed by Rich Walters (Olympus, Scorched Earth, The Show, Dead Rising: Endgame, Ring of Fire). The soundtrack will be released digitally on May 14, 2021 and is now available for pre-order here. Van Helsing is created by Neil LaBute and stars Kelly Overton, Jonathan Scarfe, Christopher Heyerdahl, Vincent Gale and Rukiya Bernard. The series revolves around the daughter of Abraham Van Helsing who is resurrected in a post-apocalyptic world to lead a resistance against the vampires that plague it.
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Weekly TV Music Roundup (September 18, 2016)
Premiering tomorrow, September 19, is the new NBC comedy The Good Place created by Michael Schur (Parks and Recreation) and starring Kristen Bell, Ted Danson, Jameela Jamil, William Jackson Harper, Manny Jacinto and D’Arcy Carden. The show’s original music is composed by David Schwartz (Arrested Development, Northern Exposure, Reaper, Lady Dynamite). To learn more about the series, which will air every Monday night on NBC, check out our scoring assignment announcement.
Also premiering tomorrow is the CBS comedy Kevin Can Wait created by Bruce Helford, Rock Reuben & Kevin James and starring James himself, Erinn Hayes, Taylor Spreitler, Ryan Cartwright, Mary-Charles Jones, James DiGiacomo, Leonard Earl Howze, Gary Valentine and Lenny Venito. Raney Shockne (The To Do List, Anger Management, Queen of the South) is composing the show’s original music. Check out our previous news article for more information about the series, which will air Monday nights on CBS.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (June 19, 2016)
Premiering today in the U.S. is the British/French TV series The Tunnel based on the Scandinavian drama The Bridge and starring Stephen Dillane and Clémence Poésy. The music from the show’s first season is composed by Adrian Johnston (Becoming Jane, Kinky Boots, Bridesheads Revisited, Dancing on the Edge) and the second season is scored by Ben Bartlett (Walking with Dinosaurs, The Mark of Cain). The drama follows two detectives working together to find a serial killer who left the upper-half body of a French politician and the lower-half of a British prostitute in the Channel Tunnel. The series will air in the U.S. on PBS. Visit the official show website for more information.
Premiering tomorrow, June 20, is the documentary Suited directed by Jason Benjamin and produced by Lena Dunham. Owen Pallett (Her, Life, The Box) has composed the film’s original music. The movie centers on Bindle & Keep, a Brooklyn tailoring company that is known for making custom suits for a growing legion of gender-nonconforming clients. The documentary premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and premieres on HBO. Visit the official movie website to learn more about the film.
Soundtrack Details for Syfy’s ‘Olympus’
MovieScore Media will release a soundtrack album for the Syfy original series Olympus. The album features selections from the show’s original music composed by Rich Walters (Ring of Fire). The soundtrack will be released on October 23, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Olympus is created by Nick Willing and stars Matt Frewer, Sonita Henry, Cas Anvar and Graham Shiels. The mythological drama centers on the few brave men and women who banished the Gods to the realm of the unconscious – a place known as Underworld or the Kingdom of Hades. The series’ first season premiered this spring.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (March 29, 2015)
Premiering tonight is the National Geographic Channel original movie Killing Jesus directed by Christopher Menaul and stars Kelsey Grammer, Stephen Moyer, Emmanuelle Chriqui, John Rhys Davies, Rufus Sewell, Eoin Macken, Aneurin Barnard, Vernon Dobtcheff, Tamsin Egerton and John Lynch. The film’s original music is composed by Emmy Award winner Trevor Morris (The Tudors, The Borgias, Vikings, Immortals, Olympus Has Fallen). The 3-hour TV event is based on the best-selling book by Bill O’Reilly and chronicles the life of Jesus of Nazareth through the retelling of the political, social and historical conflicts during the Roman Empire. For more information about the film, visit National Geographic’s official website.
Premiering on Tuesday, March 31 is the CBS mini-series The Dovekeepers directed by Yves Simoneau, produced by Roma Downey & Mark Burnett and starring Cote de Pablo, Rachel Brosnahan & Kathryn Prescott, Diego Boneta and Sam Neill. Jeff Beal (House of Cards, Rome, Appaloosa, Monk, Ugly Betty) has composed the project’s original music. Varese Sarabande will release a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s music digitally on April 7. Check back on this page for the full album details and visit our previous news article for more information about the two-parter, which will air on Tuesday and Wednesday night on CBS.