Justin Timberlake announced via Twitter today that he will perform at the Super Bowl VII Pepsi Halftime Show on NBC, live from the U.S. Bank Stadium in Minnesota on Feb. 4. Timberlake shared the news that he does “have the time” for the NFL halftime in a humorous video with his friend and frequent skit […]
The young Mozart is coming to television via Adam Shankman’s Offspring Entertainment and IM Global TV, which is at MIPCOM this week trying to find a production partner to help fund the period drama, which will depict the musical prodigy as “a as genius and celebrity of his time, and will also depict the court of […]
Gregorian chants, riffs on David Bowie and the interstellar adventures of a boy and his drunken grandfather —that’s the gist of Rick and Morty, the Adult Swim animated show that has drawn legions of fans since its 2013 debut. The season three premiere was watched by 2.86 million on July 30, according to TV by the Numbers, […]
Miley Cyrus goes where no pop star has gone before, with a weeklong gig on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, which has designated Oct. 2-6 t “Miley Week” to tie-in to her new album, Younger Now, set for release Sept. 29. NBC describes the stint as an “unprecedented weeklong celebration” of the music of “friend of the […]
The MTV original series Teen Wolf gets the classics treatment from Sony, which is releasing the two albums worth of material from the show in its final season — one featuring songs and the other showcasing the score, both through Sony Classical. Teen Wolf – Original Television Soundtrack features artists including Young the Giant, Mikky Ekko, […]
He hasn’t won an Oscar (yet!), so David Cieri seems to be getting less attention for The Vietnam War than co-composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, but make no mistake: the virtuoso abilities of this multi-instrumentalist contributed significantly to Ken Burns’ 18-hour epic. The 10-part documentary, co-directed by Burns and Lynn Novick, premieres Sunday on PBS. In […]
Rickey Minor has won the Emmy for music direction for the epic ABC special Taking The Stage: African American Music And Stories That Changed America, with rapper Common taking the trophy for music and lyrics for the song “Letter to the Free” at the 2017 Creative Arts Emmy Awards Saturday night. In an extremely competitive category, […]
The SCL Emmy Nominees Reception drew nearly 200 TV music heavyweights to a Hollywood terrace Friday on the eve of the Annual Creative Arts Emmys and at the start of a week of celebration leading up to the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards Sept. 16 at the Microsoft Theater. The event, sponsored by the Society of […]
Hans Zimmer and Lorne Balfe have found a new way to showcase their musical genius, by selecting the winners of the “Show Us Your Musical Genius” challenge. The contest, presented by NatGeo, Fox 21, Milan Records and hosted by indi.com, had participatants submit their own interpretations of Zimmer and Balfe’s Emmy-nominated main title theme for the […]
The 34th annual MTV Video Music Awards took a 16 percent dip among viewers 18-34 demo, scoring a 4.46 rating and about 6 million viewers on Sunday. That’s a smaller decline than the 34 percent nosedive of 2016, when 6.5 million 18-34 viewers tuned in, for an overall 5.33 rating. Last year, network parent Viacom touted […]
