Kathryn Morris UK

Exclusive! Kathryn In W.E.I.R.D. World TV Movie

W.E.I.R.D. World is a weird kind of world. I guess that should be obvious from the title, but it is.

But why W.E.I.R.D. and not just ‘weird’? To misquote from the pilot episode of the hit TV show Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.:

Hill: What does W.E.I.R.D. stand for Agent Ward?
Ward: Wilson Emery Institute for Research and Development.
Hill: And what does that mean to you?
Ward: That someone really wanted our initials to spell weird.

Made in 1995, W.E.I.R.D. World the TV movie was almost certainly a pilot for a planned TV series. For what ever reason the TV series was not picked up. The basic set up screams for ‘thing of the week’, much like The X-Files but contained within a particular place. A sort of early version of another Sci-fi channel TV series Eureka (aka A Town Called Eureka) crossed with 1950s B-movies. The Sci-fi channel wanted to tap into the X-Files success with this.

The film is certainly going for it in terms of the cast and those behinds the scenes. You’ve got Ed O’Neill (Modern Family), Dana Ashbrook (Twin Peaks), and Paula Marshall (Spin City), amongst others in front of the camera. Director William Malone had done episodes of the Freddy’s Nightmares and Dark Justice TV shows. The executive producers included Hollywood big hitters like Richard Donner (Lethal Weapon), Walter Hill (The Warriors), Joel Silver (Die Hard), and Robert Zemeckis (Back To The Future). With that kind of serious movie making power behind it how could it fail…?

There was a time when Ed O’Neill was famous as Al Bundy, the deadbeat husband and father in the long running and massively successful sitcom Married With Children. Al’s wife was the larger than life Peggy (Katey Sagal, Sons Of Anarchy), known for her figure hugging outfits and her… appetite for and willingness to be disappointed by… little Al. They also had a smart son (and a dumb, but hot daughter).

Luckily Ed has managed to escape all that with an almost unheard of new sitcom called Modern Family. In this new role Ed is Jay, a successful in business older husband to the larger than life younger wife Gloria (Sofia Vergara), known for her figure hugging outfits… you get the picture. They also have a smart son. Where do these TV creatives get their ideas?

In W.E.I.R.D. World Ed is Dr. Monochian, the bald and goatee bearded head of the institute, a secret government funded research facility investigating all kinds of crazy science stuff. They push the boundries of genetics, viruses, robotics, artificial intelligence etc. Kathryn is Dr M’s assistant, Lucy.

The plot is too convoluted and daft to even try and sum up in a post like this. We’ve got a scientist killed by a colleague, a big mechanical security robot (nothing can go wrong there then!), age regression (middle-aged man into young boy), sexual intrigue, a chief security officer on the take, time travel and even Albert Einstein. It’s all packed into the 90 minute running time. 20 years later it looks its age with poor special effects and dated technology. It probably didn’t look too great in 1995 either.

Kathryn’s role is relatively small but she appears in various scenes throughout. Initially Lucy seems sweet but there is a steeliness there. She knows more about the science than would be necessary for someone that just answers the phone, and is quite the manipulator. She has goals beyond keeping the boss’s schedule and will get what she wants. As Dr M’s second pair of eyes-and-ears she needs to know what is going on and can use her free rein and wiles to stay on top of it all.

By the end of the film everything is set up for the TV series that never happened. The main characters were assembled and their complex relationships defined. All it needed was a new

Somehow, after much searching I managed to hunt down a copy of this film. It is small and very low quality but I have put together a collection of screenshots of Kathryn as Lucy. These are now exclusively available in the KM UK Gallery.

Come back next week for some exclusive videos of Kathryn’s performance in W.E.I.R.D. World.

EMAs 2010 Update 2

I could have sworn I’d posted an update on this event relatively recently. Turns out it was back in October 2011.

Looking back at that post I was tempted just to copy it in its entirety, tweak the dates a little, and pass it off as new. The content is still applicable today: we still miss Kathryn, the Environment Media Association Awards happened again in mid-October, and Kathryn did not attend to our knowledge.

As the weather continues its plunge towards winter I thought it was a good time to bring a little heat to KM UK. Few things embody heat that Kathryn at the EMAs in 2010. Phew! Wot a scorcher!

KM UK’s Gallery already has very comprehensive coverage of Kathryn’s arrival, on stage presenting, and backstage posing at the event. Videos included. Today we make it even more comprehensive-er by adding 15 more arrival photos and two more videos!

The first video is another red carpet interview (our 4th) in which Kathryn espouses the virtues of more efficient home appliances and using solar power generators at work. Of course in the winter she could just raise the temperature of a room by walking in to it 😛 If it is too hot for you, crank up the AC or open a window.

A more general series of shots presented by Toyota (you can just about make out their sponsorship logos in the photos if you can see past the beauty) of the event make up the second video. Kathryn appears briefly.

So, that’s 15 more photos, 2 videos and HD (720p) screencaps from the first first now in the Gallery. Enjoy.

Xen Talks The Protocol At NY Comic Con

The actress and acting coach Xen Sia attended the recent New York Comic Con event to promote a new comic book called Treadwater, aka TRDWTR.

Although Treadwater exists as a traditional comic book, and there is an animated series and much cross-media material (videos, websites etc.), they are using real-life actors to portray the characters in promotional material. Xen is one of them. There is also talk of Treadwater becoming a live action TV series.

As part of her endorsement work at the NY Comic Con Xen was interviewed by Michael Artsis for the BeTerrific!! (their exclamation marks) website. During the chat she also talked about another new project: The Protocol. Regular readers will know a pilot for this possible TV series was filmed in the summer of 2013, with Kathryn making an appearance whilst she was heavily pregnant with her twin boys. The photo above was taken on the set during filming. Xen makes reference to Kathryn’s character, who we know to be called Grace, also being pregnant. I’m not sure that was quite the coincidence that Xen implies.

Just a few weeks ago I reported on The Protocol‘s increasing presence on IMDb, suggesting there is a move to make the show happen. Whether it will or not is another matter.

The Protocol is set in a not too distant future when the government mandates that all citizens take drugs, the titular ‘Protocol’, to control behaviour. None compliance sees you banished to a dystopian realm.

During her discussion Xen makes much of praising Kathryn for her work so far in the likes of Cold Case as well as her nurturing attitude towards an upcoming actress. Xen says the sort of things that we, as fans and followers of Kathryn, would completely expect her to say about Kathryn. It’s all good.

A video of the interview can be seen on YouTube here. A small copy has been added to the KM UK the Gallery. Talk about The Protocol starts at around the 4 minute mark for those wishing to skip ahead.

Cold Case S03E21 – The Hen House HD Screencaps

We reach the final edition of KM UK’s Summer Of HD for 2014.

Over the past few months I’ve been posting new HD (720p or 1080p) screencaps from season 3 of Cold Case. Rather than the usual numerical order, this year episodes were grouped into threes randomly for voting on by you dear reader. The winner of each poll was then the next chosen. Once the full set had been gone through the losing episodes were again put to the polls. This was repeated until all were exhausted.

The upshot of the voting process is that this final posting could be seen as being about the least popular episode of the season. I’m sure that’s not true really.

The Hen House is about the murder of a journalist in 1945, days after the end of World War II. Lorena “Lo” Kinney was keen to succeed in the very male-dominated world of the press. No parallels with Lilly then? A current day journalist finds files which include a threatening note written to Miss Kinney on the day she was died, hit by a train as it went through a station.

The late Peter Graves (Airplane and Mission Impossible) in one of his final roles guest starred as modern day Noah, a man Lo falls for. But is Noah all he seems? Playing the “I recognise the big guest star from other shows” game we quickly surmise that Peter is more than just a bit part player in this one.

118 HD (720p) Lilly screencaps from The Hen House are now the Gallery.

I hope you’ve enjoyed this run of postings. If you make use of any of KM UK’s screencaps in fan art then please let me know, perhaps we can include them in our Gallery at a future date.

Cold Case S03E22 – The River HD Screencaps

If you open an episode with “Holding Out For A Hero” by Bonnie Tyler with the scene of an ER doctor operating on a young man, reviving another patient with a defibrillator, comforting the shocked-to-life man’s wife and turning down her offer of money, all under the awestruck watch of super-doc’s son, you just know that things won’t end well for him. Sure enough, Dr Bowen is shot and killed in an alley a few months later in August of 1984.

Back in the present (2006) a new ADA, replacing the one that Jeffries punched at the end of last week’s starring episode Death Penalty: Final Appeal, brings in a witness to the killing of Dr Bowen. She says it wasn’t the man originally arrested for the crime that she saw pull the trigger.

Those familiar with some of Kathryn’s previous work may recognise the actor playing Dr Bowen as one of her co-stars on Pensacola: Wings Of Gold. You are so nearly right. The doc is Emmanuel Xuereb, twin brother of P:WOG star Salvator Xuereb.

As part of KM UK Summer Of HD 2014 there are now 110 HD (720p) Lilly screencaps in the Gallery.