![]() The theme of the show really does come through to the way the show’s made. You get a countdown clock in the back of your head. Our entire show life-cycle is about three and a half months, from the first day of prep to the thing going on TV. If you have a year, you probably can do anything you have six months, you can probably do most things. I couldn’t find Guy Hoffman to save my life. It turns out that “Still the Night” has quite a few writers on it. We thought it fit really well for the story we were trying to develop. What was the most difficult song to clear?Īn example I haven’t spoken about is the BoDeans song “Still the Night” - not a typical Christmas song. In the end, they were able to license every song they wanted, from the season-opening Bruce Hornsby & The Range track “The Show Goes On” to Taylor Swift‘s “Love Story (Taylor’s Version)” - with one crucial exception, as Senior says, in a phone interview from New Jersey that covers some of the songs used in Season 2. But Senior, creator-executive producer Christopher Storer and producer Tyson Bidner, who do not maintain a separate budget for licensing songs (as is the case with most shows), had to “press every penny into place,” especially in the frantic last few weeks of production, he says. ![]() Senior says most of the memorable tracks used on Season 2, such as R.E.M.‘s “Strange Currencies,” Lindsey Buckingham‘s “Holiday Road” and Liz Phair‘s “Supernova,” were easy to clear. That gives it a sort of instant familiarity - but also makes the music-licensing process more complicated. Rather than relying on music composed for the series, the show uses mostly familiar rock and pop songs to illustrate characters, moods and relationships. ![]() The Bear is known for its musical needle drops. ![]() Hollywood Is Cutting Back - Is a Synch Slowdown Inevitable? ![]()
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