62 BMI Music Cues and an Emmy-Winning Composer: What Rockstar’s Registry Filings Reveal About GTA 6’s In-Game TV Shows
With Grand Theft Auto VI just eleven days away from its November 19, 2026 launch on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, official music-rights registries are offering a detailed look at the satirical television programming waiting inside Leonida's safehouses and motels. After X user @nima02l shared a thread claiming to list unannounced in-game TV shows and their episode titles, prominent Rockstar dataminer Tex2 stepped in on GTAForums to clarify what the records actually show: the circulating names come from the official BMI Songview database and represent music cues rather than episode titles.
A full inspection of the BMI Songview repertoire (which reconciles registrations across both BMI and ASCAP) under Rockstar's official publishing entity, Rockstar Games Entertainment (IPI #00885550203), reveals exactly 62 original compositions written and performed by composer and multi-instrumentalist Mark Steven Evitts (IPI #00600173501). A Berklee College of Music graduate known for his work on fiddle, banjo, mandolin, and string arrangements, Evitts is a seasoned television veteran: he won a Children's & Family Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Direction and Composition on the Apple TV+ animated series Frog and Toad, contributed music to HBO Max's Batwheels and Netflix's Arlo the Alligator Boy, and co-wrote Nas's track Brunch on Sundays on the Grammy-nominated album King's Disease II.
From an FIB Cop Show to a Four-Episode Animated Series Codenamed 'TJS'
Sorting the 62 registrations by their BMI Work IDs shows two distinct waves of filings. The first batch of 21 cues (carrying Work IDs between 75883597 and 76046492), first spotted by GTAForums member off back in December 2025, scores a satirical law-enforcement series centered on the FIB (Federal Investigation Bureau, Grand Theft Auto's long-running FBI parody). Alongside the main title track Barnyard Blue Theme (BMI Work ID 75883714 / ASCAP Work ID 932768410), the set includes cues such as FIB Wide Sweep, Special Agent Hunter, Badger Raid in Seventy Nine, Best Policing Is No Policing, Dont Question Authority Silly, and I Cant Issue a Warrant. That bespoke television scoring sits right alongside the 50-track original score composed by French electronic duo Justice for GTA 6.
As Tex2 pointed out on November 8, a second and much newer wave of 41 additional music cues (spanning BMI Work IDs 83026504 through 83333196) has since been added to the registry. These newer filings outline a multi-episode show abbreviated as TJS (likely The Johnson Show), complete with an opening theme (TJS Main Title) and four numbered episode endings running from TJS101 Outro to TJS104 Outro. The cue sheet also lists recurring location stings (Johnson Home, School Establishing, School Hallway, Locker Room, Pizza Place Establishing, Movie Theater Establishing, Therapist Office Establishing, and Police Station Outro) as well as a standalone theatrical parody titled Cameltoes Movie Trailer (BMI Work ID 83046186).
| In-Game Program / Cue Group | BMI Work ID Range | Track Count | Notable Registered Cue Titles (Rockstar Games Entertainment) |
|---|---|---|---|
| FIB Police Parody ("Cop Show") | 75883597 to 76046492 | 21 cues | Barnyard Blue Theme, FIB Wide Sweep, Special Agent Hunter, Best Policing Is No Policing, I Cant Issue a Warrant, Hold the Line Jackie, Gentle Beaver Jam |
| "TJS" Series (Main Themes & Locations) | 83026504 to 83333196 | 14 cues | TJS Main Title, TJS101 Outro through TJS104 Outro, Transition Sting, Johnson Home, School Establishing, Therapist Office Establishing, Pizza Place Establishing |
| "TJS" Character Scenes & Movie Trailer | 83046159 to 83333186 | 27 cues | Cameltoes Movie Trailer, Meeting the Wangs, Wangs BBQ Party, Willy and Butch School Showdown, Willy Loses Everything, Hugh Catches Mia and Clint, Wandas Apology, Masculine Man |
How the BMI Filings Match Rockstar's External Animation Studio Partnership
The character-specific cues inside the TJS batch revolve around characters named Willy, Butch, Hugh, Mia, Clint, Wanda, and the Wang family, leaning heavily into double-entendre titles registered with BMI (including Johnson Home, Meeting the Wangs, Willy Is the King Dick, and You're a Big Dick Yeah, the latter two co-written with Joey Henson and Emily E. Volman, alongside Penis System and Caesars Phallus). Those names line up directly with comments from Kinda Funny Gamescast host Andy Cortez, who revealed after previewing the game at Rockstar Games that the studio hired an external animation house to produce full episodes of in-game cartoons and live-action shows, including an adult animated sitcom in the vein of Family Guy about a family of anthropomorphic phallic characters.
While an official copyright registration with BMI and ASCAP confirms that Rockstar Games Entertainment commissioned and published the music, a database entry alone cannot guarantee that every single cue survived final editing. Still, commissioning dozens of custom television cues underscores the sheer production scale behind GTA 6's reported 80-minute end credits across Rockstar's 12 global studios. During the same GTAForums discussion, Tex2 also debunked a separate, supposedly leaked list of trophy names making the rounds online, noting that it was AI-generated because it referenced the real-world city of "Key West" (instead of the Leonida Keys) and assumed a five-star wanted level rather than the game's six-star system.
My Field Notes
Digging through music-rights databases is one of the clearest ways to appreciate the gap between Rockstar Games and almost every other studio making open-world games today. Most developers slap a ten-second muted video loop onto background TV screens and call it a day. Rockstar went out and hired an Emmy-winning television composer like Mark Evitts to record 62 separate BMI cues just to score fake FIB cop shows, parody movie trailers, and a four-episode animated sitcom that players can optionally watch from their couch in Vice City. That obsessive commitment to world-building is exactly what makes stepping inside a Rockstar safehouse feel alive.
Originally from Lyon, France, gaming journalist Bastien "Orion" relocated nearly a decade ago to Quebec City's Saint-Roch district, right in the heart of eastern Canada's development studio hub. Before crossing the Atlantic, he honed his versatile reporting style across classic French gaming web portals and specialist television outlets in the 2000s and 2010s, notably with JeuxVideo.fr and JeuxNews. Equally passionate about AAA blockbusters, North American studio culture, retro preservation, and community modding projects, he anchors Pro-Gamer's transatlantic desk and real-time coverage of US and Japanese industry announcements.
