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 Welcome to the latest of KM UK’s highly acclaimed (well I think it’s great, I exclaimed, whilst acclaiming it  ) look at the burgeoning careers of those Cold Case cast members that aren’t Kathryn. Yes, even I noticed a few others on screen with her Or, as I called it the Cold Case Cast Catch-up or CCCC-up. This month it’s June so this is the June edition. Clever huh?
One of the least regular appearers here is Thom Barry (Will Jeffries on CC). More’s the pity as we all like him. As busy as I am sure he is he doesn’t often trouble the headline writers. However, this month we get to report on Thom’s return to the small screen as he is due to start a recurring role on the TV drama series Perception. Eric McCormack (Will & Grace) stars as Dr. Daniel Pierce a lecturing neuropsychiatrist with enough of his own mental health issues to fill many a peer-reviewed paper. Rachael Leigh Cook (She’s All That) is the no-nonsense FBI Agent. He’s Pierce. She’s an exception…al detective. Together they are… Perception. Or something like that. Anyway, Thom Barry will be starring in the TNT network series as the Chicago (where the show is set) FBI office boss. Two episodes of the 3rd season run have aired so far with no sign of Thom. Still 8 more to go.
Jeremy Ratchford (Nick Vera in CC) is another of our less commonly talked about CC cast members in this monthly feature. After a special première screening to close out the LA Film Festival last week, the new film Jersey Boys went on general release in the US, Canada, and the UK last Friday (20th June). Jeremy is credited as ‘police officer’ so probably doesn’t have a particularly large role in this new Clint Eastwood-directed telling of The Four Seasons formation story. He’s not playing one of the singers (those roles have largely gone to less well known but experienced stage performers) but the biggest name in the cast has to be Christopher Walken as Angelo “Gyp” DeCarlo. Gyp was a ‘wise guy’ that helped the group lead by Frankie Valli in the time before they became a hit in the 70s. There’s at least one other Cold Case alumni in the cast. Kathrine Narducci who is Frankie’s mother in Jersey Boys was in CC episode The War At Home. Like a few of the other actors Katherine was in The Sorpranos.
Finally there is signs of life from the Irish drama An Bronntanas which stars John Finn (John Stillman in CC). Filmed last year, An Bronntanas (“The Gift”) was due to shown as a 5 part drama series early this year. Then it looked like it had been push back to the end of the year. The latest news is that it will be screened as a 2 hour film at the closing night of the Galway Film Fleadh in mid-July. Fleadh, pronounced “flar”, means festival. The drama is about a lifeboat crew that discover a huge haul of drugs and a dead body on a boat found at sea, and moral dilemmas it causes. Presumably this means it be released in that form at some point afterwards, whether that will be on the Irish TG4 TV channel or in cinemas is not clear.
Danny Pino (Scotty Valens on CC) next. Not much to say about Danny at the moment. We covered the return of L&O:SVO for a 16th season last month. It is for his role as Detective Nick Amaro on the show that Danny has been nominated for an Imagen Award in the Best Actor/Television category. The Imagen Foundation that created the award promotes the Latino culture within the media. An amusing element in the other nominations that the show Devious Maids is almost guaranteed to win the Best Actress/Television category. All but one of the 6 named ladies is from that show! The Imagen Awards ceremony will take place on the 1st of August.
And finally Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller on CC) but very much not leastly. We certainly say she seldom features here She is currently in Montreal with a travelling production of the For The Record: Tarantino show of music from Quentin’s films, we’ve mentioned previously. Last weekend Tracie was doing a 24 Hour Play (mentioned here last month). Starting ‘off Broadway’, which means smaller theatres near the famous area of NY, Tracie is taking a lead role in a new play called Lost Lake by awarding playwrite David Auburn. John Hawkes (The Sessions) will co-star. Veronica (Tracie) has takes her kids on a lake side holiday. Hawkes is the troubled owner of the establishment. Hilarity no doubt ensues… or maybe not.
 It is late in the month so it must be time for another edition of KM UK’s look at the on-going careers of the other cast members of Cold Case.
A few days after the last CCCC-up (April 2014) the news broke about the renewal of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (L&O:SVU). At the time there was some doubt whether the show would return for a 16th season. I won’t keep you in suspense, because you likely already know, that the SVU was renewed. Quite how involved Danny Pino (Scotty Valens on CC) will be in the first few episodes is not clear as his character, Det. Nick Amaro, is facing temporary demotion from the squad following several serious incidents. Nick has gone all Scotty and attacked a suspect. I don’t watch the show but I understand that Lilly/Scotty ‘shippers’ have finally got to see a glimpse o fwhat that could have looked like when Nick and Det Amanda Rollins (Kelli Giddish, who, with slight figure and long blonde hair, bears some resemblance to Kathryn/Lilly) were seen together in a way that could be taken as showing a relationship beyond being colleagues has started.
I try to delay the appearance of Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller in CC) in the CCCC-up as much as possible but I just have to bow to the inevitable each month. She’s a phenomenon. Two weeks ago she went all Simon Cowell and was one of a panel of judges at the Young Auditioners Program. The scheme was looking for an new actor to join the established stars in the annual 24 Hour Play that will take place in LA in a month’s time. Alongside the likes of Michael Ealy (Almost Human) and Gillian Jacobs (Community), Tracie helped choose an actor, an understudy, and assistant crew. Tracie has taken part in such events before. Last June’s CCCC-up included mention of Tracie working with, amongst others, Sasha Alexander (Rizzoli & Isles) on putting together a brand new stage play in just 24 hours in aid of charity causes supporting education, with a particular emphasis on theatre.
On a completely different tack, albeit still with Tracie, the movie Raze came out on DVD in the US last week (20th May). In the UK the DVD release is the 16th of June. The story of Raze involves a group of women held captive and forced to fight each other to the death to save their loved ones. Lead actress Zoë Bell (best known as a stunt performer on things like Xena) stars with Rachel Nichols (Continuum), Sherilyn Fenn (Twin Peaks) and Rosario Dawson (Seven Pounds) and other women. There are some blokes in there too. On the same day as the Raze hit the shelves Tracie attended the 15th Anniversary Heroes In The Struggle gala and awards held by the Black AIDS Institute. Tracie and Kevin Daniels (Modern Family) were among the award presenters at the event that evening.
Tracie’s appearance in the previously mentioned Catfish: The TV Show on MTV in the US is due to air next Wednesday (4th June). The episode is called “Tracie & Sammie” and apparently involves Tracie getting emotionally involved with a fan called Sammie. In the trailer for the season Tracie was heard asking about a funeral.
Speaking of TV shows, back in January I posted about Tracie starring in a pilot for the E! network. The show was called Songbyrd and was about a successful songwriter. It was loosely based on the life of the celebrated Diane Warren, who was involved in the production. As you may have guess from the use of the past tense it was announced in the last couple of days that the show won’t be going forward to series. E! have decided it didn’t really fit with their programming. There is a chance the show will be picked up by another network.
And to finish off this month’s CCCC-up a new trailer for the new Annie movie has been released. Tracie has a small role in the film which is due for release just before Xmas in America and elsewhere in the following weeks and months. Watch this latest taster on YouTube, you won’t see Tracie in it though.
I’ve left it rather late this month but there is just time to squeeze in our regular post on the careers of the Cold Case cast members that aren’t Kathryn. It’s April so we’ll make this the April update.
In an effort to stop this becoming the Tracie Thoms Twelve Tributes (it’s monthly) or the T4, or 4T, or Double TT (OK, that just got weird 😉 ) we’ll try and up the non-Tracie content this time. It might be difficult though. Don’t worry, we still love you Tracie 😉
Danny Pino (Scotty Valens on CC) is coming to the end of his 3rd season on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. It’s difficult to believe it has been that long already. Makes me feel older just thinking about that. There’s a joke in there somewhere about policeman looking younger every year. So far there is no word on whether L&O:SVU will get another season or not. As we know from Kathryn’s work on Cold Case you do a job on a show like that pretty much at the exclusion of everything else so there is little time for side projects. At the moment there doesn’t appear to anything in the pipeline from Danny. If you want wall-to-wall coverage on Danny’s work check out the great site Danny Pino Online. Tell them I sent you and say ‘hi’ from me.
Going up in rank we’ll move on to John Finn (John Stillman in CC). John is listed as being in the pilot for a possible new CBS TV series based around the machinations of Wall Street. Actor John Cusack (High Fidelity) is set to star and produce. The writers and exec producers from the TV series Justified are also behind the project. Charlie Cox (Boardwalk Empire) leads with David Morse (Treme), Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda) and Maggie Grace (Taken) co-starring. Morse’s character will be a powerful banker no doubt tapping into the world’s current distrust of financial institutions. Cox is to be an Iraq war vet turned banker, so we know he’ll be a good guy. Okonedo plays an assistant attorney general charged investigating the murky world of money. John Finn’s character is just down as Ritter at the moment. As of now the show is just known as Untitled Wall Street Project and is on IMDb as a “TV movie” which is often the case with pilots for series.
Next we’ll cast (see what I did there?) our net a little wider before pulling it back.
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 Welcome to our final look for 2013 at the careers of other members of the Cold Case cast in what we like to call our Cold Case Cast Catch-up, or CCCC-up for not very short.
Due to her prodigious work rate and willingness to Tweet about it we’ll start, as usual, with Tracie Thoms aka Kat Miller in CC. I believe that Tracie has completed filming on Annie, the Sony Pictures remake of the musical. She was photographed by the paps in early December filming on the streets of NY and was back home in LA last week. Of course Tracie may not have fully completed her work on the project. There could still be re-shoots, studio based filming, and audio work to do. It would be quicker to list who is not in this re-telling of the Annie story, suffice to say it is an all-star cast. See a previous CCCC-up for a few more details. The film is expected to be released a year from today on the 19th December 2014. Raze, the Zöe Bell starring fighting females movie, has finally got a release date for the US cinemas. It is the 10th January 2014. It originally premièred back in April at the Tribeca Film Festival. Also starring Rachel Nichols (G.I. Joe) and Sherilyn Fenn (Twin Peaks), Raze is about a group of women incarcerated against their will and forced into unarmed, to-the-death combat with each other. Clearly not a comedy as this brutal new trailer shows. Rachel also appears, albeit very briefly if reports are to be believed, in another film of Tracie’s: McCanick. David Morse is Eugene ‘Mack’ McCanik, an out of control cop hunting for a young criminal played by the late Cory Monteith (Glee Club) in his final role. It looks like McCanik is already out on DVD and Blu-ray in Australia but a theatre showing is expected in the US in the new year. In the last couple of days Tracie has Tweeted from Germany. She’s there as part of a series of events put on to entertain American troops stationed abroad. Not surprisingly, in Germany in this case. Tracie is billed alongside the likes of Gary Cole (Veep) and Raven Symone (That’s So Raven). The AITAF (Arts In The Armed Forces) is behind the trip. It is their mission to “honor, educate, inspire, and entertain all active duty and veteran members of the United States Armed Forces and their families by engaging them in the power and social service of the performing arts“. You can read about AITAF on their website.
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 We’ll start a little further afield than normal for this, the September 2013 edition of KM UK’s Cold Case Cast Catch-up. In each CCCC-up we take look at the on-going careers of the other key players from the long running show.
I’ve got good news and bad news (you probably know both already though). Which do you want to hear first? “Bad” you say? OK.
The AMC television network in the USA has cancelled The Killing. Based on a Danish drama series of the same name (but in Danish as Forbrydelsen) the show was Veena Sud’s project after Cold Case. Veena was a writer, producer and executive producer on CC and continued in those roles on The Killing. I know you will correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t believe that the US version was a direct remake in the way that some are. The American audience figures for the localised season one started strongly but viewers reacted badly to the way it ended. The second season largely redeemed itself but the show only just escaped cancellation. It sounds like season 3 was something of a disappointment. Lead actress Mireille Enos had small roles in many TV shows, Cold Case being one of the few she missed out, but The Killing really brought her to the fore. Enos went on to star in the Brad Pitt movie World War Z (she played his wife and only a select few have had that honour) and has several other film projects in the pipeline. Unless another US network or online streaming service like NetFlix steps up and saves The Killing it will be one of the more easily solvable cases.
Now on to the good news. Cold Case creator Meredith Stiehm’s next project was Homeland which she co-produced at various levels and also wrote several episodes. Homeland is about to start its 3rd season in the US of A this coming Sunday (29th September) with the UK debut the following week (6th October). But that is not the good news we’re reporting today. Meredith’s more recent show is The Bridge. This is another of the wave of Scandanavian dramas being shown and/or remade around the world. The Bridge is actually a literal cross-border project in its original form as it is a Swedish and Danish co-production set around a crime in both countries. A body is found lying on the boundary between the two countries, with the added twist the name suggests that that line is in the middle of a bridge joining the two nations. Cops from both sides have to co-operate to solve the case. The US remake takes the same idea but transposes it to the US-Mexico border. German actress Diane Kruger (National Treasure) takes a lead role. None of which is good news either. In the last couple of days, just before the penultimate episode of season one was due to air, the FX channel that carries The Bridge announced it had been renewed for a second run.
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