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Shōgun music duo Atticus Ross and Nick Chuba joined Deadline's Sound & Screen Television live-music event to discuss reutilizing archaic styles of music for the FX series.  Based on James Clavell's novel, Shōgun is set in Japan in the year 1600 at the dawn of a century-defining civil war. Lord Yoshii…

Appearing for a panel at Deadline’s Sound & Screen Television live-music event, Jeff Russo described how he adapts to Fargo showrunner Noah Hawley's requests. Noting several times that he adjusted the show's music per Hawley's ideas, Russo also addressed a cover of Britney Spears' "Toxic" in the…

Mr. & Mrs. Smith composer David Fleming joined Deadline's Sound & Screen Television live-music event to discuss the nuances of creating the perfect spy score built on the foundation of trust.  Prime Video's Mr. & Mrs. Smith centers on two lonely strangers who land jobs working for a mysterious spy…

Ahsoka composer Kevin Kiner discussed his Star Wars influences for the Disney+ series at Deadline's Sound & Screen Television live-music event. He also revealed an homage to Star Wars composer John Williams in episode 5. "I kind of do this Williams lick," Kiner said during a panel discussion. "I know…

Based on a True Story composer Sherri Chung brought a typewriter to the orchestra to perform her score during Deadline's Sound & Screen live-music event. The typewriter was just one of the unusual instruments she included in the music for the Peacock comedy mystery. "I just wanted find something that…

Composer Blake Neely called his score for Apple TV+’s Masters of the Air a tribute to his mentor, the late Michael Kamen. Kamen gave Neely his first job as an orchestrator on Band of Brothers, the first in Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks' World War II series trilogy. "It's a love letter to Michael,"…

Apple TV+'s Lessons in Chemistry is the story of biogeneticist cooking show host Elizabeth Zott. Composer Carlos Rafael Rivera said he had to answer the question "what would a biogeneticist sound like?" when pilot director Sarah Adina Smith asked him to write the series’ music. This led him to some…

How do you score an ecological, apocalyptic threat like Godzilla? This was one of many questions on the mind of Apple TV+'s Monarch: Legacy of Monsters composer Leopold Ross.  While sitting down to for a conversation at Deadline’s Sound & Screen Television live-music event, Ross opened up about his…

Composer Atli Örvarsson wrote the music for Silo, the Apple TV+ series about a post-apocalyptic society living within a giant silo so old they don't even know who built it. For the tale, Örvasson said he thought of musical instruments that could represent loneliness. "I tried to imagine possibly…

Songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul marveled at Steve Martin's ability to perform their rapid-fire song in Season 3 of Only Murders in the Building. Martin's character, Charles-Haden Savage, struggles with "Which of the Pickwick Triplets Did It" until episode 8 of the season. Unlike Savage, though…

Deadline on Friday hosted Sound & Screen Television, the latest incarnation of its awards-season music franchise that puts the spotlight on composers and their work on the year’s buzziest TV series. In addition to panel conversations with the key creatives behind the shows’ songs and scores, the…

Deadline’s Sound & Screen Television has kicked off at UCLA's Royce Hall for yet another of our showcase awards-season events. Sound & Screen has always been a favorite of the Deadline team, and our audience, not least for the magic it captures when the music behind 10 the year's most exciting television…