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Deadline has launched the streaming site for its second annual Sound & Screen, an award-season composer showcase of original music for television. Click here to launch the streaming site. The event May 5 at UCLA’s Royce Hall featured a 50-person orchestra spotlighting the music from composers Daniel Pemberton, Sean…

Daniel Pemberton composed the music for Phil Lord and Chris Miller's movie Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Lord and Miller then hired him for their Apple TV+ series The Afterparty, but the job was exponentially more complicated. "There's 10 different film genres within this show," Pemberton said during a panel at…

Seeing superstar Will Smith visit remote locations on the planet was the hook for the National Geographic docuseries Welcome to Earth. Daniel Pemberton's job was to provide Smith's journey with a sound, and he said during a panel for the series at Deadline’s Sound & Screen concert event that he used some he'd never…

Composer Sean Callery said he incorporated themes from Xbox’s iconic Halo video game into his score for the Paramount+ series. However, he added his own themes for the main characters including Master Chief (Pablo Schrieber) and Kwan (Yerin Ha). "It really was born on one person's description of him saying he was…

Slow Horses composer Daniel Pemberton admits he still hasn't entirely wrapped his head around the fact that he got to pen the song “Strange Game” alongside Mick Jagger, which the Rolling Stones frontman sang for the Apple TV+ series. "The show is about these quite crap spies, and so I tried to create the sound world…

Crafting the music for HBO’s postapocalyptic miniseries Station Eleven offered composer Dan Romer the unique opportunity to create a score that informs itself as new episodes unfold. “The really fun thing about [the project] is that the actual score starts learning from the songs as the show goes," Romer explained at…

Composer Amanda Jones works on two HBO/HBO Max shows, Somebody Somewhere and A Black Lady Sketch Show, simultaneously. However, she says both are so different that the overlap isn't a problem. “I feel like the nature of Black Lady Sketch Show, each sketch is its own universe, its own vignette. So I can have a lot of…

When it came to creating original period-style songs for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel's fourth season, composers-songwriters Tom Mizer and Curtis Moore say the thoroughly music-savvy creator Amy Sherman-Palladino frequently throws them challenging curveballs. During an onstage interview at Deadline's Sound & Screen…

Tunes are very important to Euphoria creator Sam Levinson, but it’s sometimes a challenge to give him exactly what he wants, the HBO/HBO Max series’ music supervisor Jen Malone says. “Obviously you can have the most perfect song in the entire world. But if you can’t clear it, you can’t use it,” Malone said during a…

Star Trek: Picard composer Jeff Russo says he tweaked the streaming series' main theme for the just-concluded second season in order to capture the current tone of Jean-Luc Picard's latest adventures in the final frontier. "What we wanted to do was really reflect the growth of the character and what this particular…

When it came to setting the soundtrack for Pachinko, composer Nico Muhly realized he had some heavy lifting to do in helping to tell the multi-generational story about a Korean immigrant family. “It occurred to me the music couldn’t work too thematically,” Muhly said during a panel for the Apple TV+ series at Deadline…

Sound & Screen, Deadline’s inaugural live concert showcasing the composers, music supervisors and songwriters behind the music of television’s buzziest shows, has set the lineup for its in-person event May 5 at UCLA’s Royce Hall. The free-to-attend evening will feature a 50-piece orchestra performing songs from 12…