Although CMT cancelled its Sun Records TV show after just one season, the song may continue. The Memphis Flyer reports producers are pitching season two to Amazon and The CW. A music business drama, Sun Records stars 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.
In Sun Records, Sam Phillips (Murray), shepherds young musicians Johnny Cash (Fonteyne), Elvis Presley (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 like Muddy Waters, B.B. King (Castro Coleman), Fats Domino, and Ike Turner (Holliday).
According to the report, Memphis Film and Television Commission boss Linn Sitler said Kevin Kane, president of the Memphis Convention and Visitors Bureau, paid the rent on the show’s soundstage here for another month, to give the producers time to pitch the show to other outlets. Here’s more:
CMT already paid for scripts and outlines for season two of the show, Sitler said. So, they are “ready to go” for a second season. She said she has her “fingers crossed” for the meetings with the other networks, though she said “it may be a long shot.”
About $9 million is already set aside in the state budget for season two and season three of “Sun Records.” However, if the show is not renewed, that money all goes back to Nashville in a pot set aside for other film and television projects across the state.
Sun Records hails from Thinkfactory Media. Leslie Greif executive produced the first season with showrunner Gil Grant. Barry Berg served as co-executive producer and Herb Nanas and Colin Escott served as producers. The series is based on the book, Million Dollar Quartet, written by Floyd Mutrux and Escott. CMT confirmed the series cancellation, back in May.
What do you think? Did you watch the first season of the Sun Records TV show? Would you follow it to The CW or Amazon for a second season?
My wife and I enjoyed Sun Records. It’s much better than most shows on tv. The actors looked like the singers that they are playing, very believable, very entertaining. We hope that CW or someone brings it back.
Please bring sun records back! I am a huge Elvis fan and furthermore a fan of the history of Memphis! Sun Records is a place the world needs, absolutely needs to know about. Chad michal Murray is the best Sam Phillips and the show is fantastic!! Please keep it going!!
Yes we would like to have it back and yes we sure would watch it. Hopefully it will come on a cable station we get. We loved the first season and unhappy when it was taken off the air. Bring it back please.
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I would love more sun records wherever it goes
Absolutely, we watched every episode including our 23 year old son. We had been to the real Sun Records in Memphis a couple of years before the first season aired and really enjoyed the tour. Eric and Tyler both had their picture taken using the exact same microphone used to record Elvis Presley’s first songs there and Eric had one seated at the drumset there as well. We hope that CW will pick the series up.
My family loves this series.
Love love this show! I really hope it gets renewed. It seems every good show gets cancelled. Please not this show.
Absolutely. Loved sun records. Hope cw renews it. Love this station. Supernatural, arrow.
I would DEFINITELY follow Sun Records wherever it goes. It is the best series ever!!!
I would very much like Sun Records to continue! I watched each of the episodes of the first season.
Yes, I watched and enjoyed it very much! I would love for it to continue.
Absolutely I would watch another season.
I absolutely fell in love with this show I really hope that someone picks it up I would definitely follow it to another network
Yes I would follow the show. Hope CMT renews
Like Sun Records. If it can be on CW, great! If on Amazon, I won’t be watching…don’t do streaming shows.