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Lorne Balfe Nominated for Emmy Award!

Many congratulations to Lorne Balfe on his Emmy Nomination for National Geographic's 'GENIUS' - Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music...

Ruth Barrett Receives EMMY Nomination!

Just announced, Ruth Barrett has been nominated for an Emmy Award for her score to Masterpiece and Mammoth Screen's VICTORIA. Outstanding Music Composition For A Limited Series, Movie Or Special (Original Dramatic Score) - VICTORIA (composed by Martin Phipps and Ruth Barrett) ...

New 4-part BBC drama ‘In The Dark’ scored by Neil Davidge

Neil Davidge has finished scoring BAFTA-winning writer Danny Brocklehurst's (Ordinary Lies, The Driver, Exile) brand-new four-part drama, In The Dark, for the BBC. Adapted from books by bestselling novelist Mark Billingham, In the Dark stars MyAnna Buring (Ripper Street, Downton Abbey, The Twilight Saga) and is directed...

Cool Music Clients Receive Three Music+Sound Awards Nominations

Congratulations to Maurizio Malagnini, Walter Mair and Rachel Portman on their Music&Sound Awards nominations!! Click here for full details...

‘From the Land of the Moon’ in cinemas now – Music By Daniel Pemberton

French director Nicole Garcia's From the Land of the Moon (Mal de pierres) starring Marion Cotillard, Louis Garrel and Alex Brendemühlis is now out in UK cinemas. Among some of the film's recent accolades are a prestigious Palme d'Or nomination at the Cannes Film Festival and 8...

Poldark Returns For A Third Series. Music by Anne Dudley

Series 3 of Poldark returns to BBC One Sunday 18 June. Music by Anne Dudley. Click here for the trailer....

Mark Russell scores Netflix series ‘Free Rein’

Mark Russell has just finished scoring Netflix/Lime Pictures upcoming 10-part feel good drama, Free Rein. Season 1 coming to Netflix 22 June. Click here for more information.  ...

Final Series Of Ripper Street Airs 19th June (Music by Dominik Scherrer)

The fifth and final season of the BAFTA-winning BBC/Tiger Aspect co-production Ripper Street will premiere on BBC Two on Monday 19th June at 9pm. Trailer Below. Always intended as a five series story by creator Richard Warlow, Ripper Street has become one of the biggest success stories for...

Ruth Barrett scores Pete Travis’ series Fearless for ITV

The exciting, visceral six-part political thriller, Fearless, comes to ITV this June! Trailer below. Directed by Pete Travis and written by Homeland writer and executive producer Patrick Harbinson. Music by Ruth Barrett....

Wonder Woman Breaks Box Office Records!

Wonder Woman has broken the opening box office record for female director (Patty Jenkins) after taking $100.5m in the US in the opening weekend, with a global opening weekend total of $223m (£173m)! Congratulations to all involved, including Cool Music composer client Rupert Gregson-Williams....

‘Churchill’ Releasing In UK Cinemas 16 June. Music By Lorne Balfe.

Churchill, directed by Jonathan Teplitzky, starring Brian Cox, John Slattery and Ella Purnell releases 16 June. Lorne Balfe's soundtrack is available here.   https://youtu.be/sVOzMZ4IrMA...

Edmund Butt scores new ITV series ‘Bancroft’

Edmund Butt is scoring ITV Encore's dark and compelling four-part thriller, Bancroft. Created and written by Kate Brooke (Mr Selfridge, Ice Cream Girls, The Making of a Lady), leading actress Sarah Parish (Broadchurch, W1A, Cutting It) will play respected police officer DCI Elizabeth Bancroft, a woman...

Rupert Gregson-Williams scores Warner Bros’ Wonder Woman

Warner Bros Pictures' Wonder Woman, directed by Patty Jenkins (Monster, AMC’s The Killing), hits cinemas this Thursday (1st June). ...

Groundbreaking five-part series scored by Dru Masters

The Trial: A Murder in the Family is a brand new, ground-breaking five-part series to be shown across one week on Channel 4 starting 21 May. A thrilling new hybrid format of part drama, part documentary, The Trial centres around a fictional crime which will be authentically tried by...

Martin Phipps wins Best Television Soundtrack at 2017 Ivor Novellos!!

A huge congratulations to Martin Phipps on his win at the 2017 Ivor Novello Awards. Martin won Best Television Soundtrack for his score to the Weinstein Company and Lookout Point's BBC adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, starring Paul Dano, Lilly James and James...

Anne Dudley awarded Outstanding Contribution To British Music at the Ivors

Anne Dudley's achievements as a composer, songwriter, arranger and producer are remarkable, and yesterday these achievements were marked at the 62nd Ivor Novello Awards as she was awarded the prestigious PRS for Music Outstanding Contribution To British Music. Many congratulations, Anne, from all of us here...

Daniel Pemberton’s ‘King Arthur’ soundtrack reaches number 11 on the official Amazon Album Charts!

Jocelyn Pook scores ‘King Charles III’ for BBC

Mike Bartlett's hugely successful and inventive future history play, King Charles III, has been made into a 1 x 90 drama for the BBC. Daringly written in blank verse, King Charles III is an imagining of Prince Charles’ accession to the throne following the Queen’s death....

BBC 1 drama ‘Babs’ scored by Rob Lane airs Sunday 8th May

Rob Lane has recently finished scoring BBC One's upcoming biopic about Barbara Windsor (trailer below). Babs was written by Tony Jordan (Life On Mars, Hustle) and directed by Dominic Leclerc (Call The Midwife, From Darkness) https://youtu.be/V185Ii19YHQ...

A Dog’s Purpose (score by Rachel Portman) opens in UK

Amblin Entertainment and Universal's A Dog's Purpose opens this week in UK cinemas nationwide. The release in the US earlier this year took the US box office by storm, generating over $64-million. A Dog’s Purpose is directed by Lasse Hallström and stars Dennis Quaid, Peggy Lipton, Britt Robertson, K.J. Apa,...

Daniel Pemberton scores Guy Ritchie’s ‘King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword’

Daniel Pemberton has re-teamed with director Guy Ritchie on the upcoming fantasy adventure King Arthur: Legend of the Sword. The film stars Charlie Hunnam, Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, Djimon Hounsou, Aidan Gillen, Jude Law and Eric Bana, and is set to officially release in UK cinemas on 19 May 2017. WaterTower...

Dan Jones scores Lady Macbeth

Dan Jones has composed the score for the upcoming new film adaptation of Lady Macbeth. The film is directed by William Oldroyd and stars Florence Pugh, Cosmo Jarvis, Paul Hilton, Naomi Ackie and Christopher Fairbank. Set in 19th Century England, the film follows a young woman...