Musician and composer Antonio Sanchez is scoring premium cable network EPIX’s original series Get Shorty produced by MGM Television. This marks Sanchez’s first TV project.

The show is created by Davey Holmes (Shameless) who is also executive producing the MGM Television production with Adam Arkin (The Americans) and Allen Coulter (The Sopranos) who also directed the first episode.  The 10-episode, one hour dark comedy stars BAFTA Award nominee Chris O’Dowd (Girls, St. Vincent) and multi-Emmy winner Ray Romano (Everybody Loves Raymond).

Get Shorty, which premiered on Aug. 11, follows a hitman from Nevada who tries to become a movie producer in Hollywood as a means to leave his criminal past behind. For the score, Sanchez is incorporating his signature percussive sound, but also the classically trained composer will incorporate an orchestral sound when applicable. Sanchez is best known in the film world for his score for Alejandro Inarritu’s Birdman.