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?
I believe this series should be continued. This show gives a true portrait of what it was like in the 1950’s, not only musically, but in history as well. A white boy would have been deeply judged for going into a black church, just because he dug their music. It also shows the hard work these entertainers put into their careers, and what it really took to make it back then verses being a contestant on American Idol in 2017.
Loved this show hoping for another season
It’s stupid this was cancelled I looked forward to this show every week. Great acting even if some of it was exaggerated.
RENEW
renew please
Yes. Renew.
PLEASE RENEW!!!!!
Renew it!! I enjoyed watching. I even got my teenage sons liking it.
Please renew this show
Renew let’s get to jerry and johnny
Renew!!! It barely scratched the surface!!
renewed
the show is fantastic, please bring it back. Love it!
Love this show please let it go on
We don’t Usually watch television for anything but the news , but we had just visit d Tennessee and toured Sun Studios so we were interested. This show was great ! It’s a real shame it was cancelled while garbage fantasy shows, violent shows, and fake reality shows stay on. Was really looking forward to more episodes.