In December, Turner Classic Movies has a holiday gift for music lovers. Songs on Screen looks at songs and the films that propelled them to fame. Pairings such as “The Sound of Silence” in The Graduate and “Rock Around the Clock” in The Blackboard Jungle will be explored in-depth. The tune-travelling spotlight is new for TCM, […]
Despite a 34 percent decline over the prior year, ABC’s 2018 CMA Awards were still the top-rated broadcast show of last night. Major star power including Keith Urban, Miranda Lambert, Jason Aldean, and hosts Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley apparently weren’t enough to pull in viewers who’ve drifted off to other media. Replays throughout the week […]
Netflix’s ambitious new unscripted reality show Westside had a curtain raiser Tuesday at Variety’s Music for Screens Summit, where the show’s executive team shared the backstory with the magazine’s executive music editor Shirley Halperin. The eight-episode series, which debuts Nov. 9, is not a contest like The Voice or American Idol. Rather, it tracks along […]
Fox has landed Vanessa Hudgens and Brandon Victor Dixon in the lineup for the live musical version of Rent, airing Sunday, Jan. 27. Hudgens will croon as performance artist Maureen Johnson while Dixon portrays Tom Collins, a techie who returns to New York in the re-imagining of Puccini’s La Bohème as the story of seven struggling creatives who strive […]
Jeff Russo’s Legion Season Two – Original Television Series Soundtrack will be released digitally from Lakeshore Records on May 25. Russo’s synth-accented score highlights the story of David Haller (Dan Stevens), a man who believed himself to be schizophrenic only to discover that he may actually be a powerful mutant savant. Lakeshore also released the […]
Emmy-nominated composer Lorne Balfe is once again channeling Genius for National Geographic, which has brought him back for season two of its popular historical drama. The sophomore effort focuses on Spanish painter Pablo Picasso (played by Antonio Banderas, and in early years by Alex Rich). In addition to writing the score for the premiere season Genius, examining Albert […]
American Idol has been renewed by ABC, sending the progenitor of all music competition shows into what will be its 17th season. Judges Katy Perry, Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie as well as host Ryan Seacrest have all been re-upped as well. The FremantleMedia-produced show enjoyed 15 high-profile seasons on Fox network, where it finished […]
A pair of hip hop docs, a diva duo and one making-of compete for honors in the MTV Movie & TV Awards, which announced nominees today. HBO’s riveting four part rags-to-riches tale, The Defiant Ones, examines the chain of events that led to the improbably pairing of a NY-born longshoreman’s son, Jimmy Iovine, with Compton, California-bred beatmaster Dr. […]
Composer and songwriter Alex Geringas has found an animated sound for two television series from DreamWorks Animation for Netflix — Home: Adventures of Tip & Oh and Trolls: The Beat Goes On!, both adapted from feature films. For Home: Adventures of Tip & Oh the Moscow-born, Hamburg-raised actor-turned composer was tasked with creating music that could stand toe-to-toe with hits […]
Director and producer David Fincher wanted a backing track that “didn’t sound like music” for his new Netflix series Mindhunter, which is exactly what he got in the 10-episode show’s original score by composer Jason Hill. Hill, a veteran of the early aughts indie rock scene with throwback style, invented a library of original sounds he […]
