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 Things are heating up in the UK and they haven’t exactly gone cold in the showbiz news front either. KM UK’s CCCC-up for June 2019 is a busy one for members of the Cold Case cast that aren’t Kathryn.
Mayans M.C. is coming back. The spin-off from Sons Of Anarchy returns to the FX network airways on September the 3rd (a Tuesday), which is now less than 10 weeks away. Danny Pino (Scotty Valens in CC) is set to reprise his role of Miguel Galindo. Those attending the San Diego Comic-Con in a month’s time will be able to see a sneak peak of season two on the Sunday (21st July) afternoon.
Earlier this year Danny did a guest starring appearance (covered in December’s CCCC-up) in a couple of episodes of the Netflix show One Day At A Time. Not long after that the series cancellation was announced. The events were unrelated I’m sure. In what is being described as the first case ever of a show leaving a streaming service and moving to cable television, ODAAT has been picked up by Pop TV. The cable network has ordered a fourth season to air next year. Netflix will still host seasons 1 to 3 but Pop will also be able to broadcast them. In an interesting twist Pop TV is owned by the large CBS network. This means that ODAAT season 4 will likely get a network TV showing later next year. At this stage there is no news on whether Danny’s Tito will make a return. We’ll take it one day at…
July 2017. Remember then? That was when the CCCC-up first made mention of Ad Astra. No not a car commercial (I must have made that “joke” before!), but a sci-fi movie starring Brad Pitt (Moneyball), Tommy Lee Jones (Men in Black), Liv Tyler (Armageddon), Donald Sutherland (The Hunger Games), Ruth Negga (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) and John Finn (John Stillman in CC). The wheels of Hollywood often turn slowly. Two trailers for the film have been released this past month see them on YouTube HERE and HERE. John features in both. He’s the first voice you hear in the second clip.
Speaking of voices, the Roger Ailes bio-series The Loudest Voice is due to start today (30th June) on the Showtime network. If the info is correct John features in the first episode.
We’ve got this far without mentioning Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller in CC). That ends now.
In movie news Tracie is starring in a new rom-com called Back To Lyla. The plot involves a young man setting out to find his old friends after receiving a terminal diagnosis. As Tracie’s character is titled Dr Nolan I’m tempted to say her role is relatively small and in the first part of the film. Hey, I can put 2 and 2 together and come up with approximately 4. Emma Kenney (Shameless) and Hassie Harrison (Tacoma FD) star in the director America Young (Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures) directed and Guillermo Noriega (Confetti) written movie. The project only finished filming a few weeks ago so we have no news yet on a release date.
KM UK first referenced Straight Up back in October of last year. It’s a movie in which Tracie dons the stethoscope and white coat again, this time as Dr Larson. James Sweeney gets all selfish by writing, directing and starring in this rom-com with Katie Findlay (The Carrie Diaries) playing the other half of the love line (it’s not a triangle). The twist being that Todd is gay. The film had its première last week at the Frameline Festival, which is an LGBTQ+ film festival, held in San Francisco. It will be out Outfest in July. No signs of a wider release date at this time.
Just occasionally we step outside the usual additional cast to look at some other key people connect with Cold Case. One of them is Veena Sud, producer and writer on the show, who went on to do the same things on The Killing. Veena has joined something called Quibi, a mobile video service backed by Jeff Katzenberg (DreamWorks co-founder), that has already signed-up such talents as Steven Spielberg (Jaws), Steven Soderbergh (Traffic), Anna Kendrick (Pitch Perfect), Donal Logue (Gotham), Chrissy Teigen (Hotel Transylvania 3: A Monster Vacation), Don Cheadle (House Of Lies), Emily Mortimer (Mary Poppins Returns), and Paul Feig (Bridesmaids) to make on projects.
 The year is marching on at quite a pace. So let’s follow suit and do the March 2019 Cold Case Cast Catch-up. In these regular posts we look at the on-going careers of the other members of the Cold Case cast.
Who should be start with today…? How about John Finn (John Stillman in CC). The picture above rather gave things away, didn’t it? Evidence that despite the breakneck pace of media these days, the gears can grind extremely slowly in Hollywood. Waaaaaaay back in September of 2016 we first reported that the film Finding Steve McQueen had begun filming. It was the culmination of over 5 years of work at that point. Here we are in early 2019 and the film finally had a release a couple of weeks ago in the US of A. The film is based on the true story of a group of thieves that plot to steal $30m of an alleged secret stash of illegal funds owned by the President Richard Nixon. Travis Fimmel (Vikings), William Fichtner (Mom), Forest Whitaker (The Last King Of Scotland) co-star. John plays Mark Felt, an Associate Director of the FBI who gave information anonymously about the Watergate scandal to the reports Woodward and Bernstein under the pseudonym ‘Deep Throat’. That secret wasn’t revealed for 30 years. The iconic actor Steve McQueen mention in the title is a reference to one of the thieves idolising him. The recent season of The Walking Dead, which saw John join the cast, recently came to an end, and it appears that John was only in the pilot of The Enemy Within.
Danny Pino (Scotty Valens in CC) will not be able to reprise his guest starring role in the Netflix sitcom One Day At A Time. It has just been announced that show will not be returning three seasons. Danny has been busy recently promoting the WGN America’s series Gone. It took a long time to get an airing at home but seems to have been well received so the cast have been out there pressing the flesh. We get a two-for-one with Gone as Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller in CC) also features quite prominently across the 12 episode season.
One of the big entertainment news story this past week involves Tracie. Apple has officially announced its subscription streaming service. It struck me as not really news as Apple has had the streaming service for years and back in June last year we first mentioned Tracie signing up for a new drama series for Apple. Many other shows have been know about for a long time too. The show that Tracie is in was, up until recently, known (without a ?) as Are You Sleeping. Now it has been renamed to Truth Be Told and is about Octavia Spencer’s (Hidden Figures) reporter investigating an old case through her podcast. See what Apple have done there? Lizzy Caplan (Cloverfield), Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad), Elizabeth Perkins (Weeds), Mekhi Phifer (ER) co-star.
To round things off, last week Tracie was kind enough to post a couple of photos from a little Cold Case reunion with Kathryn. See HERE. It looks like the two of them were involved in some publicity work for the Start TV network, which is broadcasting Cold Case twice a day at the moment.
 A relatively short one this time. Come on Tracie! Make three short films and take on five theatrical roles in March to make up for this slacking  February 2019’s round-up of Cold Case cast members that aren’t Kathryn show business news starts….. NOW!
Yesterday (27th Feb) saw the drama series Gone finally received its première in the U.S. The WGN America network picked up the show for broadcast more than a year after our cousins Down Under got to watch it. We’ve always focussed on Danny Pino (Scotty Valens in CC) being one of the leads but we must not forget that Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller in CC) is also in ten of the 12 episodes. Chris Noth and Leven Rambin co-star in the show about an FBI team tracking down missing persons, some of them kidnapped.
Speaking of things that happened recently we come to John Finn (John Stillman in CC). I should have added a quick reminder last month of the pending launch of the new show The Enemy Within. Episode one hit the NBC airwaves on Monday (25th Feb). As is often the way with these things it hasn’t been clear whether John would make the final cut in the pilot or if it was a recurring role. He has not been mentioned by name in any press releases I’ve seen. A promo video released last week did have a brief glimpse of our man John. Also, the 2nd half of The Walking Dead season 9 started early this month. John joining the latest run of the show was amongst the many cast changes it has undergone. The loss of the main actor (Andrew Lincoln), who was in the very first shot of the pilot episode, has certainly had an impact on the ratings, but the show has been renewed for a 10th season already. Andrew is said to be returning to the TWD fold by starring in some film versions.
 The early new year period is always likely to be a bit quiet on the show business news front, but we’ll find a way to push through. It’s January 2019 and this is the latest of KM UK’s round-up of news about the Cold Case cast and their on-going careers.
Let’s start the year as we will almost certain continue it: by discussing Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller in CC) first of all. Looks like we have some evidence of a new project Tracie is lined up to be involved in. It is a film (I think) called 10-13 (the police code for shots fired) and is in pre-production with writer/director David Zayas. David will be known to many of you for his acting work in things like Dexter (he was cop Angel Batista in the show). Amazingly, I’ve found an interview from 2012 where David talks about undertaking the daunting task of translating 10-13 to the screen having written it as play for his own theatre company. It shows how long these things can take. Confusingly, that interview primarily talks about a film he was called 13, an American remake of a 2005 Georgian movie called 13 Tzameti (which is Georgian for 13). Tracie is listed as playing ‘Captain Romero’, alongside Richard Kind (Spin City) and Mekhi Phifer (ER). Despite more than 7 years having passed since this project was first mooted, it is still early days. One for us to keep an eye as the year progresses.
It’s the first post of a new year and we’re already having to hark back to previous years. Last January we talked about the drama series Gone, which starred Danny Pino (Scotty Valens in CC) as an FBI agent, getting a release in Germany. In these days of global simultaneous releases and instant access to whole seasons Gone has… gone… a different route. Despite being something of a pan-global production release dates were sparse. Australia got the ball rolling in November 2017. A première for it’s home country has finally been made known. Feb 27th on the WGN America network is the date. 9pm is the time. There are 12 episodes of the NBCUniversal produced series. Leven Rambin (The Hunger Games) and Chris Noth (The Good Wife) co-star. Speaking of global releases I’ve just noticed that Mayans M.C., the sort of prequel to hit series Sons Of Anarchy, starts on BBC2 in the UK on Saturday (2nd Feb) night with 2 episodes back-to-back.
 A slight change to our normal monthly round-up this time. As well as a quick update on the latest news, this post will be the traditional end of year recap of the year’s events. Read on for the December 2018 edition of the KM UK CCCC-up, covering news on the main Cold Case cast other than Kathryn.
First up is Danny Pino (Scotty Valens in CC). Back at the end of June KM UK pretty much led the media world in reporting on Danny joining the Netflix sitcom One Day At A Time. We’ve recently seen photographic evidence of Danny’s involvement from the upcoming 3rd season, which débuts on the 8th of February (it’s an all-on-the-same-day drop of episodes). Danny is starring as the brother of the main character, played by Justina Machado (Six Feet Under, Cold Case episode ‘The Good Death’), in a recurring role. Looks like the beautiful India de Beaufort (Kröd Mändoon And The Flaming Sword Of Fire, I just wanted to write that!) is also joining the cast for a few episodes as a ‘love interest’. Not for Danny’s Tito, sadly for Danny. Cleverly, the lucky man Avery is going to be involved with is a character played by the man lucky enough to be India’s real-life husband. How did they think of that? Both Stephanie Beatriz and Melissa Fumero from Brooklyn Nine-Nine are also set to guest star, as well as Gloria Estefan.
In March we first reported (as opposed to reported first) that John Finn (John Stillman in CC) had filmed a role in a pilot for a new drama series called The Enemy Within. The show was picked up to series a couple of months later. One of the released publicity photos included John. It has now been announced that NBC has planned the show for a ‘mid-season’ launch in late February. Based on what happened to Reverie this year on the same network, maybe that should be taken with a pinch of salt. Of course this year the Winter Olympics is not intruding on the schedules. We don’t yet know of John will recur beyond the pilot, or even if his character has even remained in what will become the first episode.
Now on to the look back to CCCC-ups in 2018.
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