"of the Doctor"" and ""The Time of the Doctor"", as composed by Murray Gold, were released on 24 November 2014 by Silva Screen Records. Doctor Who (2013 specials) The 2013 specials of the British science fiction television programme ""Doctor Who"" are two additional episodes following the programme's seventh series. In addition to the traditional Christmas episode, which has been a feature of the revived series since 2005, there was also a special celebrating the 50th anniversary of the programme. Both episodes starred Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor and Jenna Coleman as Clara Oswald. The 50th anniversary special, ""The Day"
"revamped version of the opening theme for the BBC Scotland series ""Still Game"". Ben Foster (orchestrator) Ben Foster (born 1977) is a BAFTA award-winning British composer, best known for his work on the BBC series ""Torchwood"" and as orchestrator for Murray Gold on ""Doctor Who"" and for Marc Streitenfeld on ""Prometheus"" and ""The Grey"". He is also known for his work as the conductor for Peter Gabriel's ""Scratch my Back"" world tour and albums, and for the BBC Proms ""Doctor Who"" events. Foster studied Composition and Conducting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, graduating in 2000. He was"
"for ""Doctor Who"" in 1996. For the return of the series in 2005, Murray Gold provided a new arrangement which featured samples from the 1963 original with further elements added; in the 2005 Christmas episode ""The Christmas Invasion"". A new arrangement of the theme, once again by Gold, was introduced in the 2007 Christmas special episode, ""Voyage of the Damned""; Gold returned as composer for the 2010 series. He was responsible for a new version of the theme which was reported to have had a hostile reception from some viewers. In 2011, the theme tune charted at number 228 of"
"the theme. The sting once again served as the lead-in to the theme, but Gold omitted the ""middle eight"" from both the opening and closing credits. Gold has said that his interpretation was driven by the title visual sequence he was given to work around. Gold created a variation on his arrangement for the closing credits of ""The Christmas Invasion"", which was performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Unlike his arrangement for the 2005 series, this version restored the ""middle eight""; it was also used for the closing credits of the 2006 and 2007 series. In November 2007,"
"the eleventh series of the programme would be provided by Akinola, after Murray Gold announced in February 2018 that he would step down as the programme's composer, having served as the musical director since 2005. He was named a BAFTA Breakthrough Brit in 2017. His 'Dear Mr Shakespeare' score was given an Honourable Mention in the 2017 BSO Jerry Goldsmith Award for Best Original Score for a Short Film. Akinola lives in London. Segun Akinola Segun Akinola is an English composer for television and documentaries. He took over from Murray Gold as the director and composer of the music for"
"a permanent theme. Despite a new rendition of the theme music being introduced in 2004, a further new version was arranged by Murray Gold and recorded in 2006, as part of a viewers' competition, with prize winners taking part in the final orchestral recording. Viewers were told that this new version of the theme would be used when the series returned from its summer break in September 2006; however, for unknown reasons, this was not the case, save for excerpts being used as incidental music. Instead, when the September 2006 series began, a slightly shortened version of the 2004 arrangement"
"following the BBC's announcement that it was requiring all series to implement a shorter closing credits sequence, Murray Gold produced a third version featuring additional drums, piano and bass guitar and a variation of ""The Chase"" counter-melody while retaining the original Derbyshire electronic melody line, used from the Christmas 2007 episode. The 2008 series featured a modified arrangement of this version. In 2005, a new orchestral arrangement by Christopher Austin was commissioned by the BBC for the ""Blue Peter"" prom and performed by the BBC Philharmonic. It has also been performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra as part of the"
"Noble, Gallifrey, The Master, Astrid Peth, the Cybermen, and the Daleks. Gold re-arranged the ""Doctor Who"" opening theme in 2010 for Series 5. With the 2010 series, Gold also created two new musical identities for the Eleventh Doctor (""I Am The Doctor"" and ""A Madman With A Box,"" replacing themes previously associated with the Ninth and Tenth Doctors), a theme for Amy Pond, the Silurians and the Daleks. He also continued to use the theme for the Cybermen, as well as several action cues such as ""Corridors and Fire Escapes"" and ""All the Strange, Strange Creatures."" Although his music for"
"of the car dealership. In the second series, the tone became somewhat more serious, with each of the main characters having to make hard choices concerning their futures. A recurrent theme throughout the series is Vince's fandom of ""Doctor Who"", with various scenes from the classic series being played (in one instance an awkward situation with a guy Vince brings home). This is a small, yet significant piece to the series, as six years later Russell T. Davies revived ""Doctor Who"". The theme song for series was created by Murray Gold. Given a list of tracks, music producer Almighty Records"
"Band of Gold (TV series) Band of Gold is a British television crime drama series, written and created by Kay Mellor, that first broadcast on ITV on 12 March 1995. Produced by Granada Television, the series revolves around the lives of a group of sex workers who live and work in Bradford's red-light district. Principal cast members for the series include Geraldine James, Cathy Tyson, Barbara Dickson and Samantha Morton. Three series of ""Band of Gold"" were produced (the third under the moniker of ""Gold"", with only a small number of characters from the first two series featured), with the"
"in 2005. Davies was made the chief writer and Executive Producer of the new series (called Series One instead of continuing the numbering with Season 27, although the narrative thread continued from the old series rather than starting afresh), and other writers included Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat, Paul Cornell and Rob Shearman. The Producer was Phil Collinson and the other Executive Producers were Mal Young (although he subsequently left the BBC midway through production at the end of 2004), and BBC Wales Head of Drama, Julie Gardner. A new arrangement of the theme tune was composed by Murray Gold. Gardner"
"""Gold"", a fringe musical based on old school friends getting their school band back together after twenty-five years apart. Paul has appeared in the television series Cranford as a featured character alongside Dame Judy Dench and Eileen Atkins and has collaborated with actor Stephen Donald (Blood Brothers, Brookside) in the north of England. Paul appears at the beginning of the first Harry Potter movie. In 2009, Paul acted as an adjudicator for the Hastings Musical Festival. In 2010, Paul performed as Frank Sinatra alongside Laura Nixon's Marilyn Monroe and Suspiciously Elvis at sell-out shows at ""Alive & Swinging"" in Brighton,"
"Ayres ""et al."", which generally had an electronic feel, with innovative instrumentation. Gold also wrote the theme tunes for ""Doctor Who"" spin-offs ""The Sarah Jane Adventures"" and ""Torchwood"", and composes music for the latter series alongside Ben Foster. A selection of their compositions, entitled """", was made available during August 2008. He arranged the theme tunes to ""Totally Doctor Who"" and ""Doctor Who Confidential"", both of which are variations on the ""Doctor Who"" theme. Gold has created, arranged and orchestrated three special live concerts for the music from ""Doctor Who"". The first, """", was played at the Millennium Centre in"
"directed by Daniel Evans and starring Omid Djalili as Tevye and Tracy-Ann Oberman as Golde. The original Australian production opened on June 16, 1967, at Her Majesty's Theatre in Sydney. It starred Hayes Gordon as Tevye and Brigid Lenihan as Golde. The production ran for two years. The first professional revival tour was staged by the Australian Opera in 1984 with Gordon again playing Tevye. A young Anthony Warlow played Fyedka. In 2005 and 2007, Topol recreated his role as Tevye in Australian productions, with seasons in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, Wellington and Auckland. The musical was again revived in"
"certified Gold, having shipped more than 500,000 copies in the US. In October 2009, the cast album was certified Platinum, selling over 1,000,000 copies in the United States. A Movie adaptation of the musical, directed by Clint Eastwood was released in 2014. The West End cast of ""Jersey Boys"" appeared as a guest act for the Royal Variety Performance 2008, which was staged at the London Palladium on December 11 in the presence of senior members of the Royal family. The Royal Variety Performance is a gala event held annually at a major British theatre, to raise money for the"
"William Marshall and Melba Moore. Two new songs were written for the production: ""Since the Beginning, Women"" and ""Golden Land, Golden Life."" The New York City Center Encores! series presented a staged concert in February 2006, starring Brian Stokes Mitchell and Marin Mazzie. The musical was revived in 2007 by the English National Opera at the London Coliseum and starred West End musical veteran Michael Ball, Faith Prince and Alfie Boe. The musical was made into a Cinemascope film in 1955 by MGM, directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Howard Keel as Hajj, Ann Blyth as Marsinah, Dolores Gray as"
"concert works, King has composed music for various films, including ""Shrek"", ""Chicken Run"", and ""Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince"" and television programmes, including the FIFA World Cup 2002, ""The Last Detective"", ""Second Nature"" and ""William and Mary"". King's most recent roles include conducting and orchestrating on Doctor Who for Murray Gold. He replaced Ben Foster after his departure in 2015 and has taken the full role for Series 10 onwards. Alastair King Alastair King (born 1967) is a British composer and conductor, perhaps best known for his musical contributions to film and television. He frequently collaborates with composers Charlie"
"June 2011 episode of ""Coronation Street"" and as aunt Annie in an episode of the children's TV show ""Scoop"", titled ""Come In Digby, Your Time's Up"". Gold lives with the actor James Vaughan. They have one son, Louis. Louise Gold Louise Gold (born 1956) is an English puppeteer, actress and singer whose career has spanned more than four decades. She is best known for her work as a puppeteer on television and for roles in musical theatre in the West End. Gold was raised in London, beginning training in the arts at an early age. She began to appear in"
"tyrannical Miss Andrew in ""Mary Poppins"" at the Prince Edward Theatre (2006–08). In February 2008, she was the stoic widow O'Brien in ""Next Door's Baby"". From December 2008 to January 2011, Gold appeared in ""Oliver!"", as Mrs Sowerberry and Mrs Bedwin, at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. She sings these roles on the cast album. On Sundays in August and September 2010, while still performing in ""Oliver!"", she returned to the Lost Musicals series, as Alice Challice in ""Darling of the Day"", earning warm reviews. In 2011, she appeared as Montana in ""Mexican Hayride"", another installment of the Lost Musicals"
"that he would step down as the programme's composer, having served as the musical director since 2005, and that he would not be composing the music for the eleventh series, which would be instead composed by Segun Akinola. Gold has scored a number of British and American films, including the BAFTA-winning ""Kiss of Life"" directed by Emily Young, ""Death at a Funeral"" directed by Frank Oz and ""Mischief Night"", directed by Penny Woolcock. Other projects include Ant & Dec's 2006 film ""Alien Autopsy"" and 2009 drama film ""Veronika Decides to Die"". In 2001, his radio play ""Electricity"" was given the"
"the show they have come to see – with missed cues, fluffed lines and preposterous plots gloriously intact"". However, it played to full houses, and was nominated for ""Best New Musical"", ""Best Actress in a Musical"" (Julie Walters) and ""Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical"" (Celia Imrie) at the Laurence Olivier Awards, and won ""Best Supporting Actress"". The original series and the musical were released on DVD in the UK in January 2005 and March 2006 respectively. A routine from the show closed the 2005 BAFTA tribute to Victoria Wood; however, in 2007 she said that creating"
"Channel and the first series was repeated in June 2007 at 12:30 on the CBBC Channel. During the summer of 2009, Gold repeated the entire 4 series. Many of the plots featured, included or revolved around spoofing particular things, including films such as ""Jurassic Park"" and ""It Came From Outer Space"", and television programmes, including ""The Crystal Maze"" and the long-running televised fundraisers Children in Need and Comic Relief. There were also frequent references to other Robin Hood incarnations, most notably ITV's ""Robin of Sherwood"" (and in particular that series' Clannad soundtrack is lampooned in the episode ""The Whitish Knight"")"
"on BBC Three. The title sequence, created by Berger & Wyse, was nominated for a Royal Television Society Award (2005), a BAFTA (2006) and an Emmy (2007). The title music, composed by Simon Rogers was also nominated for the Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music Emmy in 2007. Following much media speculation, including reports of the programme being cancelled and a motion picture spin-off, the BBC announced on 12 June 2008 that ""Hustle"" had been recommissioned for a fifth series with series 1–3 star, Adrian Lester returning to the show alongside Robert Glenister and Robert Vaughn. Due to scheduling conflicts,"
"Programmes are announced by sole channel continuity announcer David Flynn, who has had the position since June 2009. In July 2014, Gold rebranded after over 6 years in its original identity. The logo is a ribbon with the letters ""GOLD"". The new idents have funny and wacky stuff happening (such as dancing legs). At the end of the idents, the ribbon comes out saying ""GOLD"", while the activity behind it is still going. The output of the channel is mainly British comedy programmes including repeats of BBC shows and sometimes feature-length films. The following is a list of all the"
"and Television School, where he studied with Francis Shaw and Peter Howell (the latter having composed for the BBC series ""Doctor Who"", with which Foster would later become associated). Since November 2005, Foster has worked as arranger and conductor for composer Murray Gold on ""Doctor Who"". He also conducted the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in """", which was held at the Wales Millennium Centre on 19 November 2006 in aid of Children in Need. The concert was followed by the release of the first CD which includes music from series 1 and 2 of the programme. This was released"
"has also written a new contemporary musical work entitled CELESTIAL. Based on the poems of the late Johnnie Douglas-Pennant, this work is narrated by actor Michael Sheen and features Steve Howe on guitar and soundscapes by Chris Watson. Paul K. Joyce Paul Kevin Joyce (born July 1957) is a British composer, producer, orchestrator, arranger and conductor. He is known for his music for theatre and television, including the 2005 BBC TV film ""The Snow Queen"" and the 2008 British TV film ""Clay"". He wrote ""Can We Fix It?"", the theme song to the children's television programme ""Bob the Builder"" that"
"Gold won the 1960 Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Score. It was also nominated for Academy Awards in two categories: ""On the Beach"" was remade in 2000 as an Australian television film by Southern Star Productions, directed by Russell Mulcahy and starring Armand Assante, Bryan Brown, and Rachel Ward. It was originally aired on Showtime. The remake of the 1959 film was also based on the 1957 novel by Nevil Shute, but updates the setting of the story to the film's then-future of 2005, starting with placing the crew on the fictional ""Los Angeles""-class USS ""Charleston"" (SSN-704) submarine and"
"concert celebrating the music from the television programme ""Doctor Who"" as composed by Murray Gold and was later followed by a further Doctor Who prom in 2010, a free family prom in 2009, another free ""Horrible Histories"" prom in 2011 and a Wallace and Gromit prom in 2012. These particular concerts were introduced by Wright, who became Proms Director in addition to his duties at Radio 3 in October 2007, and many were also televised for broadcast at a later date. The mix in these proms of classical music to combine with music of a classical nature from the programmes"
"directed again by Peter Hall and ran for 173 performances (15 December 1999 until 14 May 2000), receiving Tony Award nominations for Best Revival and Best Actor in a Play (David Suchet, who played Salieri). Also in the cast were Michael Sheen as Mozart, Cindy Katz as Constanze and David McCallum as Joseph II. In July 2006, the Los Angeles Philharmonic presented a production of portions from the latest revision of the play at the Hollywood Bowl. Neil Patrick Harris starred as Mozart, Kimberly Williams-Paisley as Constanze Mozart, and Michael York as Salieri. Leonard Slatkin conducted the Philharmonic Orchestra. Rupert"
"Doctor Who: Original Television Soundtrack Doctor Who: Original Television Soundtrack is a soundtrack album released on 4 December 2006, containing incidental music composed by Murray Gold and used in the 2005 and 2006 series of ""Doctor Who"". The release included a fourteen-page booklet containing an introduction to the album by ""Doctor Who"" Executive Producer Julie Gardner, written on 8 November 2006; and four pages of comments on the contents of the album, written by Murray Gold in November 2006. The booklet also featured many publicity pictures, including a Cyberman, a Dalek ship, Matron Casp and the New Earth Hospital, the"
"Sam Gold Sam Gold is a theater director and actor. He has directed both musicals and plays, on Broadway and Off-Broadway. He won the 2015 Tony Award for direction for the musical ""Fun Home"". Gold was raised in Westchester and New York City. His father, Jeffrey, is an investment banker, and his mother, Lenore, is a painter. He graduated from Cornell University with a degree in English and had internships at Playwrights Horizons and the Signature Theater, and attended the directing program at the Juilliard School. He spent three years as an assistant director and dramaturge at the Wooster Group."
"his London revival of ""The Sound of Music."" Connie Fisher won the TV series and was cast as Maria in the London revival of the show that opened in November 2006 at the London Palladium. When Oscar Hammerstein II wrote the lyric for this song, he followed the lead from a line in the dialogue that Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse wrote in their script, describing Maria's flighty ways in the Abbey. In particular, he was taken by the detail of her wearing curlers in her hair under her wimple. Hammerstein asked if he could incorporate their dialogue into the"
"celebration of 75 years at Maida Vale. From ""The Eleventh Hour"" the theme received a complete reworking to tie in with the new cast, production design and title sequence design. Arranged by Murray Gold, this theme, while still retaining Gold's own ""The Chase"" counter-melody, has the bassline and electronic melody redone by Gold on a synthesizer. The reworking was something of a departure from all previous arrangements, with a prominent new melodic fanfare theme playing in the opening bars, and a percussion sound accenting each quaver of the rhythm. The end credits featured only a short arrangement with introductory fanfare"