T Bone Burnett producing TV series "Trade"
Reuters
Nellie Andreeva
December 1, 2009
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Grammy-winning producer, musician and songwriter T Bone Burnett is venturing into television.
Burnett is joining Epix’s Nashville-set drama pilot “Tough Trade” as executive producer and executive musical producer.
Azita Ghanizada has been added to the cast of “Trade,” which is eyed for a 2010 premiere as Epix’s potential first original series.
Created by Chris Offutt, the show is a contemporary one-hour drama about three generations of a Nashville music dynasty (Sam Shepard, Lucas Black and Cary Elwes) whose penchant for drink, debauchery and divorce has left it on the verge of bankruptcy.
Ghanizada will play the wife of Elwes’ character.
Burnett won five Grammys for his work on the Coen brothers’ 2000 film “O Brother, Where Art Thou?,” for which he wrote the score and produced the soundtrack, and he was nominated for a best original song Oscar for 2003’s “Cold Mountain.”
He oversaw the music for the soundtracks to 2005’s “Walk the Line” and 1998’s “The Big Lebowski” and has produced such artists as Roy Orbison, the Wallflowers, k.d. lang and Counting Crows. He wrote the music for and served as a producer of the upcoming Jeff Bridges-starring feature “Crazy Heart.”
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