Composer Luke Di Somma on co-creating TV3's Happiness

There's a lot more singing in season two of Happiness, and Luke Di Somma is the one writing it. This time the show within the show is a Sherlock Holmes musical. Luke helps run the writers room, so the songs are planned from the ground up rather than dropped in later. TV is tough on a songwriter, though. A stage number can run six minutes. On screen, two minutes is a long song, and a close-up can say what a lyric would. Luke also looks back on a Christchurch childhood with an activity every lunchtime, and years spent as a conductor for hire with theatre companies around the South Island. Some of the people he met there may seem familiar.