Premiering tonight is the Fox holiday event A Christmas Story Live! starring Matthew Broderick, Andy Walken, Jane Krakowski, Chris Diamantopoulos, Ana Gasteyer, Ken Jeong and David Alan Grier. The television special’s music is composed by Benj Pasek & Justin Paul (La La Land, The Greatest Showman, Dear Evan Hansen) based on their work on the Broadway musical of the same title. They also wrote several new songs. Arts Music will release a soundtrack album featuring the songs from the event tomorrow. Check out our previous article for the full album details.
Premiering in the U.S. tomorrow, December 18, is the BBC mini-series Gunpowder created by Ronan Bennett & Daniel West and starring Kit Harington, Liv Tyler, Peter Mullan, Edward Holcroft, Shaun Dooley, Robert Emms, Derek Riddell and Mark Gatiss. Hauschka (aka Volker Bertelmann) (Lion, In Dubious Battle, The Current War) has composed the original music for the 3-parter. Sony Masterworks has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score earlier this week.Click here for the full album details and to learn more about the series, which premieres stateside on HBO.
Mercury Classics has released a soundtrack album for the BBC drama The Last Post. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Solomon Grey (The Casual Vacancy). The soundtrack is now available digitally overseas (visit the 
Solomon Grey (aka Tom Kingston and Joe Wilson) are composing the original score for the upcoming BBC drama The Last Post. The show is created by Peter Moffat (Criminal Justice, Silk, Undercover) and stars Jessica Raine, Jessie Buckley, Stephen Campbell Moore, Ben Miles and Jeremy Neumark Jones. The drama is set in the mid-1960s and centers on the lives of a Royal Military Police unit and their families in Aden, Yemen. Margery Bone & Elwen Rowlands and George Faber (Shameless, Skins) & Mark Pybus are executive the Bonafide Films & The Forge Entertainment production with Matthew Read.