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?
Great show!!!!
Please keep it going! Best show ever!!!!!
Excellent Show and the Actors are really Talented. Loved the Cameo by Darius Rucker also! I am hooked and now my wife is also. I definitely hope you renew it.
I love this show! This was a very intense and interesting part of our history – please, more episodes.
Please renew this show. I really enjoy watchinh each episode.
Best show in a long, long time, it would be a travesty to cancel now, it’s just getting started!
This is a great retrospective on the era. The actor playing Jerry Lee is right on! Love every scene he’s in. Deserves a long run.
Please renew Sun Records!! It is an amazing show.. All the people on the show play their parts to a tee!!! Would be great if they based it on the lives of all of them to their end, like they are basing in on the beginnings!! This show “ROCKS”
I LOVE this show!! The acting, production, direction, SETS and COSTUMES are brilliant! DEFINITELY should be renewed!!!!
Love this show please renew. great cast. love the Billy Gardell and all the cast. looking forward to more.
Love this show! Chad Michael Murray is an amazing actor! Please renew!
Please Renew!!!! Im hooked and love this show!
Please turn down the background music. Cannot hear the talking with all the loud music. Very annoying.
Enjoying the show so much but have our tv sound as high as it will go to hear .
I love the authentic background music and can still hear dialogue fine. Could be your set’s/sound system’s audio settings are imbalanced.
Please turn the background music down We cannot hear parts of the talking. Enjoying the show but very hard to hear with all that background music.
I haven’t watched a new television series since the 1980’s. I saw Sun Records a week ago. I want to see more as I thought it was very good. I am over 60 years old and have little patience for most of the programs in the present era.
I loved the opening episode of Sun Records! It was very refreshing and it made you feel that you were right back there in that Era and moment. Bravo✨
I love the music by all the singer artist, d0n’t let go of this show
I ‘m 78 years old I remember all these guys, I can go back to enjoying tv at least once a week again. keep up the good work.
SUN RECORDS SHOW IS AMAZING!!! KEEP IT ROCKING AN ROLLING!!! YOU GOT OUR ATTENTION!!! LOVE THE SHOW
Outstanding!!! most of us Clevelanders thought rock and roll started in our city. Please keep this series going.