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?
It would be a BIG mistake for the network to drop Sun Records. It’s the BEST t.v. show CMT has had in a very long time. Please keep the show on for me and thousands more that watch it, but keep it on for your sake. It has been a long time that I made time not to miss a program and SUN RECORDS I never miss. Just hate that it only stayed on for such a short while. I know you have Nasville starting up soon,but it does nothing for me.
Renew this show. I watch every week.
Please renew the show. It’s my favorite.
Please don’t cancel. It’s a great show
Great show. Nothing like it on TV. RENEW
Best show in a very long time. Covers an era rarely shown or even talked about these days. Thanks CMT.
Signed, Fan for the run
I frequently catch myself smiling as this show is extraordinarily entertaining
renew
My favorite show. They have brought back my teenage years! I love it…Please renew!!!!
Favorite show on TV right now. Keep it going please!
I love it!! I hope it continues
Missed the first show, but I feel like I’m reliving my teenage years. I’m from Memphis and went to school with Knox. Wish somebody had done some fact checking though – Macy’s was not in Memphis during this time and Orpheum was the Malcolm theater. It was a great place to grow up in during the fifties and early sixties and the music changed the culture of the whole world! Sam was a visionary and I wish he was not portrayed as such a sleaze. Would like to see show renewed to show the paths each of the guys followed.… Read more »
Renew this show! ALL of the Cast are superb and do justice to the characters they portray. I’m a member of SAG-AFTRA and one of the SAG Awards Nominating body. I’d certainly vote to nominate Principals from this show for the next awards.
Please keep Sun Records. Love it.
Please renew, great show and I love the history of our great music.
Please, Please renew. It is a great show with great history. I love Keb Mo so seeing him on this show is awesome.