Phew, February’s short! It only feels like last month that we posted the January edition of the KM UK ‘CCCC-up’, where we bring you up to date with what’s going on in the careers of the Cold Case cast members that aren’t Kathryn. We’ll start with award winners and end on a mystery…
Jeremy Ratchford (Nick Vera on CC). Jeremy. Jezza. The J-Man. JR. J. OK, I’ll stop. I’ve been mentioning the film Lost On Purpose; which stars Jeremy, Jane Kaczmarek (Malcolm In The Middle) C Thomas Howell (The Outsiders) and 2012 Oscar winner Octavia Spencer (The Help); for what feels like forever. It has been available to watch via the Vimeo website for a few months now but continues to be screened as festivals. In just the last couple of days the movie won a directors award for the writer/directors Eshom & Ian Nelms at the New Hollywood Online Film Festival NUHO Awards. Well done to them. Lost On Purpose is about a woman (Kaczmarek) struggling to run a family owned dairy farm, the farm hands she employs, and facing increased competition from larger co-ops. Jeremy appears to have worked on a short film recently. A listing for a project called A Slow Coming Dark is now on IMDb and is described thus: “Three ex-cons join forces to kidnap the son of a very wealthy man for a healthy ransom, but there is one major problem in the equation.” The release date is down as “Los Angeles, 20th March 2014”, which could equate to a film festival but I’ve yet to narrow it down any further. Jeremy’s role is just named “T.J.”
There is still no word on the Irish TV show An Bronntanas which stars John Finn (John Stillman on CC). The five part drama, centred on the crew of a lifeboat and what they discover on a boat they go to rescue, was due to start being broadcast on the Irish TG4 station back in January. So far I’ve no evidence of it happening. It’s like it got lost out at sea. If you know different please let me know.
We can’t complete a CCCC-up without including Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller on CC). If it wasn’t for Tracie these posts would be quarterly 
The short film A Different Tree, which stars Tracie, was broadcast on the HBO channel in the US from earlier this month. I believe that it has been shown several times already, with more screenings to come in March. The 15 minute long feature about an 8 year old girl (Morgan Ashley) and her absent father (Jason E Kelly) is also available on the HBO Go streaming service until the end of March. Tracie plays Pearl’s (Morgan) mother Jada. You might recognise Jason E Kelly from a small role in the Cold Case episode Mind Games (S06E18). He also worked alongside Jeremy Ratchford in the film The New Republic, which came out in late 2012. In fact you can see them both together in the trailer on YouTube here. For a change a couple of weeks ago Tracie wasn’t starring in a film, she was hosting one! Her own house had been taken over for some filming on a project called 2 Black Dudes. But Tracie being Tracie meant that the helping out on set didn’t last and she was off to do some work on a film called The Concessionaires Must Die. Details can be found on the official website. And what of the mysterious ending? A couple of days ago Tracie Tweeted that she was back in Philadelphia, the setting of and scene of some exterior filming on Cold Case. She wouldn’t say what she was doing in Philly but she described it as a “eye-opening experience!” Curiouser and curiouser.
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