Tag: Showtime

Weekly TV Music Roundup (May 5, 2019)

May 5, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring Assignments 0 comments

Tags: Chernobyl, Chris Egan, Daniel Hart, HBO, Hildur Guðnadóttir, J. Ralph, Netflix, Roger Eno, Samuel Sim, Showtime, Starz, State of the Union, SundanceTV, The Society, The Spanish Princess, Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men

Premiering tonight is the Starz limited series The Spanish Princess based on Philippa Gregory’s best-selling novels and starring Charlotte Hope, Nadia Parkes, Aaron Cobham, Alan McKenna, Richard Pepper, Olly Rix, Jordan Renzo, Daniel Cerqueira and Alicia Borrachero. The show’s original music is composed by Samuel Sim (Awake, The Halcyon, Home Fires) and Chris Egan (Man Down). To learn more about The White Queen and The White Princess sequel series, check out our previous article and also visit the official show website.

Premiering tomorrow, May 6, is the HBO mini-series Chernobyl written by Craig Mazin, directed by Johan Renck and starring Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård and Emily Watson. Hildur Gudnadottir (Joker, Sicario: Day of the Soldado, Mary Magdalene, Strong Island) has composed the show’s original music. Deutsche Grammophon will release a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score. The main title theme is already available now as a digital single. Click here for information about the release and the series, which will air Monday nights on HBO.

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Weekly TV Music Roundup (January 20, 2019)

January 20, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring Assignments 0 comments

Tags: Black Earth Rising, Black Monday, Conversations With a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, Deadmau5, Justin Melland, Kris Bowers, Martin Phipps, Netflix, Polar, Showtime

Premiering tonight is the new Showtime original series Black Monday created by David Caspe & Jordan Cahan and starring Don Cheadle, Andrew Rannells, Regina Hall, Paul Scheer, Yassir Lester, Michael James Scott and Eugene Cordero. The show’s original music is composed by Kris Bowers (Green Book, Dear White People, Of Monsters and Men). Check out our previous news article to learn more about the comedy, which will air every Sunday night on Showtime

Premiering on Thursday, January 24, is the Netflix docu-series Conversations With a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes directed by Joe Berlinger about serial killer Ted Bundy. Justin Melland (Dark Net, The Force, Wrong Man) has composed the original music for the show, which features present-day interviews, archival footage and audio recordings made on death row. The full series will be available to stream on Thursday exclusively on Netflix.

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Weekly TV Music Roundup (December 16, 2018)

December 16, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring Assignments 0 comments

Tags: 3Below: Tales of Arcadia, Aaron Zigman, Amazon, American Dream/American Knightmare, Fabian Römer, Isobel Waller-Bridge, Jeff Danna, Michael Kadelbach, Netflix, Perfume, Showtime, Vanity Fair

Premiering on Friday, December 21 in the U.S. is the British mini-series Vanity Fair developed by Gwyneth Hughes and starring Olivia Cooke, Tom Bateman, Suranne Jones, Michael Palin, Johnny Flynn and Martin Clunes. The show’s original music is composed by show’s original music composed by Isobel Waller-Bridge (Fleabag, The Split, Vita and Virginia). Decca Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score, as well as songs by Afterhere, Jade Bird, Paloma Faith & others earlier this fall when the series premiered in the UK on ITV. Click here for the full album details. The drama is making its U.S. debut on Amazon Prime.

Also premiering on Friday is DreamWorks Animation’s new Netflix original series 3Below: Tales of Arcadia created by Guillermo del Toro and starring Diego Luna, Tatiana Maslany, Nick Offerman, Glenn Close, Cole Sand, Steven Yeun, Emile Hirsch and Kelsey Grammer. Jeff Danna (The Good Dinosaur, The Boondock Saints, Storks, Tyrant) is composing the show’s original music. Check out our scoring assignment announcement to learn more about the series, which marks the second show in del Toro’s Tales of Arcadia trilogy following Trollhunters, and which will be available to stream exclusively on Netflix.

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Showtime’s ‘Black Monday’ to Feature Music by Kris Bowers

December 3, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring Assignments 0 comments

Tags: Bad Hair, Black Monday, Kris Bowers, Showtime

Kris Bowers (Green Book, Dear White People, Of Monsters and Men) has been tapped to score the upcoming Showtime original series Black Monday. The show is created by David Caspe (Happy Endings, That’s My Boy) & Jordan Cahan (My Best Friend’s Girl) and stars Don Cheadle, Andrew Rannells, Regina Hall, Paul Scheer, Yassir Lester, Michael James Scott and Eugene Cordero. The drama tells the story of how a group of outsiders took on the blue-blood, old-boys club of Wall Street and ended up crashing the world’s largest financial system, a Lamborghini limousine and the glass ceiling.

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Weekly TV Music Roundup (November 18, 2018)

November 18, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring Assignments 0 comments

Tags: AMC, Carly Paradis, Cho Young Wuk, Christophe Beck, Edward Shearmur, Escape at Dannemora, Facebook Watch, HBO, Kevin Dailey, Max Richter, Motown Magic, My Brilliant Friend, Netflix, Queen America, SHEL, Showtime, The Christmas Chronicles, The Little Drummer Girl, The Soundtrackings

Premiering tonight is the Showtime limited series Escape at Dannemora directed by Ben Stiller, written by Brett Johnson & Michael Tolkin and starring Benicio Del Toro, Patricia Arquette, Paul Dano, Bonnie Hunt, Eric Lange and David Morse. The show’s original music is composed by Edward Shearmur (Charlie’s Angels, Cruel Intentions, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Johnny English). Check out our previous news article to learn more about the 8-parter, which will air Sunday nights on Showtime.

Also premiering tonight is the HBO/RAI original series My Brilliant Friend co-written and directed by Saverio Costanzo and starring Elisa Del Genio, Ludovica Nasti, Margherita Mazzucco and Gaia Girace. Max Richter (The Leftovers, Mary Queen of Scots, Taboo, Miss Sloane, Waltz with Bashir, Hostiles) has composed the show’s original music. Check out our scoring assignment announcement to learn more about the drama, which will air in the U.S. every Sunday night on HBO.

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Weekly TV Music Roundup (September 9, 2018)

September 9, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring Assignments 0 comments

Tags: Amazon, Blake Neely, Colin Stetson, Dan Jones, Daniel Hart, David Wingo, Forever, Hulu, Kidding, Leanna Primiani, Lifetime, Netflix, PBS, Pinar Toprak, Showtime, The Angel, The First, The Miniaturist, You

Premiering tonight is the Showtime original series Kidding created by Dave Holstein, directed by Michel Gondry and starring Jim Carrey, Frank Langella, Catherine Keener and Judy Greer. David Wingo (Take Shelter, Mud, Loving, Barry, Our Brand Is Crisis, The Sitter) is composing the show’s original music. Check out our previous news article to learn more about the comedy drama, which will every Sunday night on Showtime.

Also premiering tonight is the Lifetime original series You created by Greg Berlanti & Sera Gamble and starring Penn Badgley, Elizabeth Lail, Shay Mitchell, Zach Cherry, Luca Padovan, John Stamos, Michael Maize and Ambyr Childers. The show’s original music is composed by Blake Neely (The Flash, Arrow, Life As We Know It, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow, Riverdale). Check out our scoring assignment announcement to learn more about the drama, which will air Sunday nights on Lifetime.

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Edward Shearmur Scoring Showtime’s ‘Escape at Dannemora’

August 29, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring Assignments 1 comment

Tags: Ben Stiller, Edward Shearmur, Escape at Dannemora, Showtime

Edward Shearmur has been tapped to score the Showtime limited series Escape at Dannemora. The show is directed by Ben Stiller (Tropic Thunder, Zoolander, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty), written by Brett Johnson (Ray Donovan) & Michael Tolkin (The Player, Deep Impact) and stars Benicio Del Toro, Patricia Arquette, Paul Dano, Bonnie Hunt, Eric Lange and David Morse. The 8-parter is based on the stranger-than-fiction account of a prison break in upstate New York in the summer of 2015 that spawned a massive manhunt for two convicted murderers.

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Showtime’s ‘Kidding’ to Feature Music by David Wingo

August 20, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring Assignments 0 comments

Tags: David Wingo, Kidding, Michel Gondry, Showtime

David Wingo is composing the original score for the new Showtime original series Kidding. The show is created by Dave Holstein and stars Jim Carrey, Frank Langella, Catherine Keener and Judy Greer. The comedy drama revolves around an icon of children’s television, a beacon of kindness and wisdom to America’s impressionable young minds and the parents who grew up with him, who also anchors a multimillion dollar branding empire.

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Weekly TV Music Roundup (May 27, 2018)

May 27, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring Assignments 0 comments

Tags: 100 Code, 1968: The Year That Changed America, Adam Norden, Adrian Johnston, Atticus Ross, C.B. Strike, Cinemax, CNN, Gary Lionelli, H. Scott Salinas, HBO, John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls, Nathaniel Blume, Showtime, The Fourth Estate, Trent Reznor, WGN America

Premiering tonight is the Showtime docu-series The Fourth Estate directed by Liz Garbus about how the New York Times covered President Trump’s first year in office. Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross (The Social Network, Gone Girl, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) composed the show’s main titles theme and H. Scott Salinas (City of Ghosts, Cartel Land, The Ballad of Lefty Brown) provided the original score. Visit the official show website to learn more about the 4-parter, which will air Sunday nights on Showtime.

Also premiering tonight is the new CNN docu-series 1968: The Year That Changed America about the year marked by the assassinations of MLK and RFK, a contentious presidential election, escalating anti-Vietnam War sentiment and more. Nathaniel Blume (The Flash, Deception) who previously co-scored CNN’s The Seventies, The Eighties and The Nineties with Blake Neely has composed the 4-parter’s original music. Visit the official show website to learn more about the documentary.

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Soundtrack Album for Showtime’s ‘Patrick Melrose’ to Be Released

May 15, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music Albums 0 comments

Tags: Hauschka, Patrick Melrose, score, Showtime, Soundtrack, Volker Bertelsmann

SATV will release a soundtrack album for the Showtime limited series Patrick Melrose. The album features the show’s original music composed by Academy Award nominee Hauschka (aka Volker Bertelmann) (Lion, Adrift, Gunpowder, In Dubious Battle, The Current War). The soundtrack will be released digitally on June 8, 2018 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Patrick Melrose is developed by David Nicholls, directed by Edward Berger and stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Hugo Weaving, Anna Madeley and Allison Williams.

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