Sound & Screen Television 2026: Every Composer, Every Show, Now Streaming
TL;DR: Deadline's Sound & Screen Television 2026 event — held May 6 at UCLA's Royce Hall — is now available to stream online. Composers and songwriters from 11 major TV shows performed live with a full orchestra for industry Emmy voters. Here's who was there, what they played, and why this showcase matters for the upcoming awards season.
Deadline just put the full Sound & Screen Television 2026 showcase online — and it's worth your time even if you weren't in the room.
The annual event, which took place on May 6, 2025 at UCLA's Royce Hall in Los Angeles, brought together composers and songwriters from eleven of television's most talked-about current shows. They didn't just talk about their work. They performed it — live, with a full orchestra, in front of a crowd made up largely of industry voters who will be filling out Emmy ballots in the weeks ahead. That's the whole point of this event, and it's a smart one: hearing a score performed live does something to you that a Spotify stream simply can't replicate. On May 11, Deadline launched the streaming site for the showcase, making all of that available to anyone with a browser.
Who Showed Up — and Which Shows They Scored
The 2026 edition of Sound & Screen Television pulled composers from across the streaming landscape, which tells you something about how spread out prestige television has become. No single platform dominated. Netflix, Prime Video, Apple TV+, Peacock, FX, Hulu, HBO Max, and Paramount+ all had representation on the Royce Hall stage.
Here's the full lineup of composers and their shows:
- Finneas O'Connell — Beef (Netflix)
- Chris Bacon — Wednesday (Netflix)
- Christopher Lennertz and Matt Bowen — The Boys (Prime Video)
- Tyler Strickland — John Candy: I Like Me (Prime Video)
- Breton Vivian — The Madison (Paramount+)
- Amanda Jones — Murderbot (Apple TV+)
- Siddhartha Khosla — Imperfect Women (Apple TV+)
- Jeff Beal — All Her Fault (Peacock)
- Jeff Russo — Alien: Earth (FX)
On the songwriter side, co-writer David Archuleta, co-writer and singer Sophie Rose, and co-writer/producer Michael Blum represented Hulu's Only Murders in the Building. Composer-songwriter Gavin Brivik and songwriter Andrew Bird performed what Deadline confirmed as the first original song from HBO Max's Emmy-winning series The Pitt.
The streaming site is now live. You can watch the full event through Deadline's platform — the link was published on May 11, 2026.
Why This Event Has Real Weight in the Emmy Race
Look — awards showcases can feel like elaborate PR exercises, and sometimes they are. But Sound & Screen Television is different in a way that's worth acknowledging. The Society of Composers & Lyricists (SCL) co-supports the event, lending it genuine industry credibility, and the live orchestral element means this isn't just a panel discussion with talking heads. According to the SCL's event listing, the showcase includes a pre-show reception at 5:00 p.m. and the main event at 6:30 p.m. — structured more like a concert evening than a press junket.
What's striking is how rarely television music gets this kind of focused, public attention. Film scores get their own Grammy category, their own dedicated features in the trades, their own Oscar campaigns. TV music? It tends to get folded into broader Emmy conversations, mentioned briefly, then forgotten in favor of acting and writing categories. This event is a deliberate corrective to that.
The presence of Finneas O'Connell — who built his reputation producing his sister Billie Eilish's records before transitioning to screen composition — brings a certain crossover appeal that the event hasn't always had. His work on Beef introduced him to a TV audience that might not have followed his compositional career otherwise. Same goes for Andrew Bird performing an original song from The Pitt, an HBO Max drama that won Emmy recognition and is now clearly being positioned for another awards run.
Movie OTT tracks streaming availability across all major platforms, so if you're trying to catch up on any of these shows before Emmy voting closes, that's your fastest route to figuring out where each one lives in your region.
What Finneas O'Connell's Involvement Signals for Beef Season 2
Honestly, the inclusion of Finneas on this stage is the detail I keep coming back to. Beef — the Netflix dark-comedy series created by Lee Sung Jin — took the industry by storm when it premiered, winning multiple Emmys and establishing itself as one of the sharpest pieces of television in recent memory. The show's music was always part of its texture, that dissonant, low-key unease running underneath scenes that were already operating at a high pitch of anxiety.
His presence at Sound & Screen Television 2026 suggests Netflix is actively campaigning Beef in the music categories this Emmy cycle — which, given the show's track record, isn't a long shot. Hard to say if that signals a second season is in the works, but the awards momentum is clearly still alive.
How Indian Audiences Can Access These Shows Right Now
For viewers in India, the good news is that most of the shows featured at Sound & Screen Television 2026 are available on major OTT platforms in the country — though the specific titles vary.
Here's a quick regional breakdown:
- Netflix India: Wednesday and Beef are both accessible on the platform. Wednesday in particular has been a massive draw for Indian audiences, with dubbed versions available in Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu.
- Prime Video India: The Boys has been one of Prime's flagship originals in India for years, and all current seasons are streaming. John Candy: I Like Me (a documentary) may have a staggered regional rollout — worth checking.
- Apple TV+: Murderbot and Imperfect Women are both on Apple TV+ in India, though Apple's subscriber base in the country remains smaller than Netflix or Prime.
- Hulu content: Only Murders in the Building is not available on Hulu in India — it streams via Disney+ Hotstar, which holds Hulu's content rights in the region.
- HBO Max / FX content: The Pitt and Alien: Earth are expected to be available through JioCinema or Disney+ Hotstar depending on the specific licensing arrangement.
Movie OTT's where-to-watch tracker is genuinely useful here — platform availability shifts frequently in India, and what's on Hotstar one month can move to JioCinema the next. Worth checking before you commit to a subscription you don't already have.
The Indian market's appetite for prestige American television has grown sharply over the past three years. Shows like The Boys and Wednesday perform strongly on Indian streaming charts, and the music that scores them — increasingly composed by recognizable names — is part of what gives these productions their international feel.
The Broader Sound & Screen Television Franchise
Deadline's Sound & Screen Television isn't a new event. It's the television-focused arm of a longer-running awards-season showcase series that also covers film music. The format has remained consistent: curated composers perform live, industry voters attend, and the whole thing gets captured for streaming.
What's changed in recent years is scale. The 2026 edition featured 11 shows — a number that reflects how much prestige TV has expanded. A few years ago, you might have had six or seven. The growth mirrors the Emmy field itself, which has added categories and expanded eligibility windows to accommodate the sheer volume of serious television being produced annually.
The composers featured this year represent a genuinely wide range of compositional approaches. Jeff Russo, who scored Alien: Earth for FX, has a long track record in prestige television — his work on Fargo and Legion established him as one of the most distinctive voices in the field. Siddhartha Khosla, scoring Imperfect Women for Apple TV+, brings a background in indie pop (he fronted the band Goldspot) that tends to produce unusually melodic television scores. Christopher Lennertz on The Boys has the unenviable job of making music that sits underneath some of the most tonally chaotic television currently airing — and he's pulled it off for multiple seasons.
The Society of Composers & Lyricists has been a consistent partner in this event, which adds an institutional layer that pure trade-publication showcases don't always have. The SCL's involvement signals that the event carries genuine weight with working professionals in the field, not just with press.
Movie OTT has been covering the awards season music conversation as part of its broader streaming tracker — because the shows that win in music categories tend to be the ones that sustain long streaming tails after the awards cycle ends.
What Comes Next in Deadline's Awards Season Calendar
Sound & Screen Television isn't the end of Deadline's 2026 awards-season showcase run — it's the middle of it. Deadline confirmed that the next installment is Contenders Television: Documentary + Unscripted, a virtual presentation scheduled for May 30, 2026. That follows last month's live Contenders Television event, which featured 29 shows, and the earlier Contenders Television: Documentary showcase.
The Emmy nomination announcement period is approaching fast, which means every one of these events is timed to land in voters' consciousness at exactly the right moment. For anyone tracking which shows are being most aggressively campaigned — and therefore which ones are most likely to show up on the nomination ballot — Deadline's streaming site for Sound & Screen Television is a useful data point.
For the most current streaming availability across Netflix, Prime Video, Apple TV+, Hotstar, and regional platforms, Movie OTT has the updated picture as platform deals shift through the summer.
