Network: CMT
Episodes: Eight (hour)
Seasons: One
TV show dates: February 23, 2017 — April 13, 2017
Series status: Ended
Performers include: Chad Michael Murray, Billy Gardell, Drake Milligan, Kevin Fonteyne, Christian Lees, Jonah Lees, Trevor Donovan, Keir O’Donnell, Jennifer Holland, Margaret Anne Florence, and Kerry D. Holliday.
TV show description:
A music business drama, the Sun Records TV show unfolds in Memphis, Tennessee, during the first turbulent years of the Civil Rights movement and the birth of rock ‘n’ roll.
Sam Phillips (Chad Michael Murray), shepherds young musicians Johnny Cash (Kevin Fonteyne), Elvis Presley (Drake Milligan), Carl Perkins (Dustin Ingram) and Jerry Lee Lewis (Christian Lees). These up-and-coming white musicians combine hillbilly country music, with the ’50s R&B sound of African American artists.
Drawing on the seminal works of Muddy Waters, B.B. King (Castro Coleman), Fats Domino, and Ike Turner (Kerry D. Holliday), these artists made musical history. The series documents them, as they rocket to fame. Meanwhile, the nation is swept up by political changes and protests.
Series Finale:
Episode #8; “Finishing School”
First aired: April 13, 2018
Colonel Tom Parker (Gardell) presses to take over Elvis’ career, but Sam struggles with the decision to let his star go. Jerry Lee’s philandering catches up with him, and Johnny Cash (Fonteyne) starts his own band. (Courtesy CMT.)
What do you think? Do you watch the Sun Records TV show? Should it be cancelled or renewed for another season on CMT?
definitely worth another season
Best show I have seen in a long time! Please bring it back! Love the music history!
Please bring it back
Love the show !!! Please bring back!!! Best show out there!
Please renew!!! I’m addict it to the show!!!
I’m so disappointed. I loved this show. All the boomers related to it.
I think that they are making a big mistake by canceling Sun Records. To be honest that was the only program that we watched on that station. Now we won’t be watching CMT. I cannot stand Nashville. Boring show.
love it ,please renew
I watched every episode. Great series…
Bring it back.
I think it will be a hit if given a chance. Maybe one on the other networks
can bring it back.
OMG! PLEASE PLEASE RENEW!!! I cannot wait to see the next episode. What do we need to do to get it renewed!!???
Hope it returns for season 2 with all the stupid crap these networks want us watch it’s nice to see something that really happened please retain for 2 season.
I don’t think I have enjoyed a series this much in a long time. I was so looking forward to the second
I really had high hopes for Sun Records, but I think centering the story around the dirty underpinnings of the record business, instead of focusing more on the talent that was being used and exploited at the time, was a mistake. Very disappointed in the way the show was heading.
Love it!! Please bring it back!