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It’s time for the latest CCCC-up, our end-of-month look at the on-going careers of the cast of Cold Case.
In July I made some bold statements about Danny Pino‘s (Scotty Valance in CC) future regarding the Imagen Awards. I’m pleased to say that I have been proved correct once again (it doesn’t often happen, note the date!). Yes, a month ago I claimed the awards that recognise the work of those from the Latino community in the media would be happening on the 21st of August. Also, I asserted that Danny was nominated for an award. And, lo, it came to pass that KM UK was shown to be a teller of truth. A truth peddler be I! Enough! The awards happened and Danny won in his category of Best Supporting Actor: Television. The show he was in, Law & Order: SVU, won the gong for Best Primetime Television Series: Drama. Congratulations to Danny and all those involved in SVU.
Thinking it had been lost in the desert I’d pretty much given up on Death Valley, a drama film starring Katrina Law (Arrow), Lochlyn Munro (True Justice), Victoria Pratt (Mutant X), Kelly Hu (Arrow) and Jeremy Ratchford (Nick Vera in CC). Over the past couple of years I’ve been vaguely tracking the movie. There have a few festival showings and… well… that was about it. In the past week or so things have turned around significantly. The film, about four friends who find themselves in a spot of bother in the aptly named area in eastern California, will now receiving a more general release in US cinemas on October 23rd. It may not be in every multiplex but it should possible to track down a showing in your area of America (assuming you have an area that is).
Each month Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller on CC) manages to inject something into the CCCC-up. The lady is just soooo busy. This time out it’s called Injection. A drama short about a family dealing with cancer and the appearance at the door of a possible cure. Not sure of Tracie’s role in the piece yet other than her character’s name: Sarah Wenscombe. Tracie doesn’t seem like a Wenscombe to me, but she’s a good actress so I’m sure she’ll pull it off. We can be a little more certain about Tracie and the webseries Send Me. The drama is about an academic, Gwen (Tracie), with ability to send other African Americans back to the times of slavery in the US, and much of the world. Earlier this month a couple of trailers for the project were released. Follow through from the official website HERE to YouTube and you can find a load of behind the scenes videos. I’ve not seen a specific date mentioned for the series release yet.
Back in the March CCCC-up I reported on John Finn (John Stillman in CC) had a role in a new drama series pilot called Doubt. Since then, to say the least there has been a lot of doubt about Doubt. The pilot clearly didn’t float the boat of those in the position to make the decision so a series was not commissioned from it. However, the project was kept alive and there has been a lot of re-writing and re-casting going on the past few months. KaDee Strickland (Private Practice) was to be the lead but she has been replaced by Katherine Heigl (Grey’s Anatomy). Steven Pasquale (Rescue Me) steps in for Masters Of Sex star Teddy Sears, who has moved to The Flash. Others, such as Laverne Cox (Orange Is The New Black), Dulé Hill (Psych), and Dreama Walker (Gossip Girl) are said to still be involved. Whether John is or not we’ll just have to wait and see.
A few hours after posting last month‘s CCCC-up the news broke that American wrestler “Rowdy” Roddy Piper passed away. We’d only just mentioned the death of author Ann Rule. Roddy, appropriately enough, starred in the season 7 wrestling-themed Cold Case episode One Fall. A week later the actor Terrence Evans, he was the present day/older Lester Hughes in Daniella from season two, also died. Our condolences to their families and friends.
It’s late in the month and the picture above is not of Kathryn so that can only mean one thing: it’s the latest CCCC-up, where KM UK keeps track of the on-going careers of the other Cold Case cast members.
I don’t follow Law & Order: SVU so I only happened to stumble on the big news about the show and Danny Pino (Scotty Valens on CC) the other day. It was a bit of a shock to read. Apparently Danny will not be returning to the show when the 17th season starts in the autumn. He’s done 4 years as Detective Nick Amaro, joining the long running drama in 2011, after Cold Case finished. I get the impression Amaro was not written out in the finale, the decision was probably taken after filming was completed. They will have to some how explain the character’s absence in the early new episodes though. It’s still very early days but there is no sign of Danny taking on other projects yet.
Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller on CC) is, as always, racking up those star-miles with at least two new projects on the go. Wet Hot American Summer: First Day Of Camp is a short comedy series for Netflix. 8 episodes is short by US sitcoms standards but it is more than many British shows have. The cast is impressive in both width and depth. Including a list of even half the ones you’ve definitely heard of could overwhelm this post. How do Bradley Cooper, Kristen Wiig, Elizabeth Banks, Molly Shannon, Amy Poehler, Paul Rudd, Christopher Meloni, and David Hyde Pierce sound? And there are soooo many more, and most of them seem to be in all the episodes too. It’s going to have to be a jam-packed 30 minutes. But what’s it about? The title certainly makes it sound an American Pie-style comedy about the American institution that is the summer camp. The addition of the colon punctuation and subtitle to the name also gives away that this is a sequel. The original, with very much the same cast, was a film from 2001. The film is due for release in late July. The second string to Tracie’s bow is a 2016 film called Border Crossing. Josh Charles (The Goodwife and WHAS:FDOC I’ve just mentioned) and Julia Stiles (The Bourne Ultimatum). It’s about a psychologist who rescues a drowning man he knows from a past criminal case he worked on. Tracie’s role is not clear at this time.
There’s no new news on new projects for John Finn (John Stillman on CC) but there is some almost-news for a recent project of his. The TV series/film An Bronntanas; which saw John star as a police office investigating a case involving coast guards, drugs and dead body; received three film nominations in the recent Irish Film & Television Academy Awards. If you don’t want to know the results before the Irish TV broadcast of the event on Monday look away now. It didn’t win anything.
 It is very nearly a new month so it can only mean one thing here on KM UK: another edition of our monthly looks at the on-going careers of the non-Kathryn members of the Cold Case cast. Your CCCC-up for March 2015 is served.
After a few months of mentioning it and what felt like longer waiting for it Thom Barry (Will Jeffries in CC) finally made his appearance in the now cancelled TNT drama series Perception. When the news first broke on Thom’s role as an FBI field officer it looked like it would be recurring across a few episodes in the short closing run. Sadly, Thom did not appear until the very last episode, regardless of what IMDb is saying at the moment. Worst still it was all too brief. I can only assume the intention was for it to be greater but it was, for some reason, cut. How long will it be until we next get to talk about the big man?
Another of our less regular regulars is John Finn (John Stillman in CC). We have another chance to talk about him today. John has been cast in a pilot for possible new CBS drama series called Doubt. No… doubt (see what I did there?) it will be in the running for a slot in the upcoming autumn/fall schedules. IMDb has it listed a TV movie, which they often do for 1 hour pilot episodes like this. You’ll remember The Surgeon General which Kathryn had a role in and never made it to series. It is still characterised as a TV movie despite never airing. Anyway, Doubt stars KaDee Strickland (Private Practice) as a defence lawyer. In the pilot she gets ‘romantically involved’ (code for ‘doing it’, which itself is code for…) with her client, a man charged with the murder of a girl some years before. I can’t imagine that will be happening every week though. They are throwing the proverbial book at this show with Laverne Cox (Orange Is The New Black), Dreama Walker (Don’t Trust The B—- In Appartment 23), Dulé Hill (Psych), and Teddy Sears (Masters Of Sex) amongst those cast. All we know about John’s role is it is a character called Don. It could be a regular character or unique to the pilot. We don’t know yet. Since the last CCCC-up John apparently had a two-episode role in the TV series The Blacklist, which stars James Spader (Boston Legal) as a master criminal who, after years of evading the authorities, suddenly turns himself over the FBI and offers to help catch others like him. ‘Judge Richard Renner’ (John) made his appearances in episodes earlier this month.
We can usually rely on Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller on CC) to help fill up a CCCC-up, often all on her own, but this time it was only a late entry that gets her mentioned. Unbeknownst to me Tracie starred in a horror short last year that received a brief online-only release during Halloween. It was one of a set of 31 films for the DreadCentral, Collider and BloodyDisgusting websites under the title Fun Size Horror. Remember kids: fun is not a size. Tracie played ‘Karen’ in a segment called The Collection. May will see 21 of the films released via VOD services in what should probably be called an anthology titled Fun Size Horror: Volume One. Plans are already under way for a new set of short films for Halloween 2015. Be afraid, very afraid.
 Instead of a round-up of the news on the non-Kathryn cast of Cold Case, this month we’re doing more of a round-up of the round-ups. A fairly traditional thing to do this time of year across all sections of the media.
Let’s go alphabetical (by first name as we’re all friends) for a change.
Danny Pino (Scotty Valens in CC) started the year part way through his 3rd season on the police drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. He ends the year in the same position in his fourth. I don’t watch the show so I can’t really comment on the character or the show but I understand Detective Amaro has featured in a significant story line that ran across the two seasons. These 20+ episode season, major network shows take-up most of the year to make so there isn’t a lot of time for other projects. We haven’t seen Danny take any that I know of. In June Danny was one of the nominees for a Imogen Award, which recognise those promoting Latino culture in the media. He didn’t win this time. Check out our friends over at Danny Pino Online for all the latest info on Danny.
Jeremy Ratchford (Nick Vera in CC) is another that hasn’t stuck his head above the parapet too often in 2014. A movie called Death Valley that JR filmed in 2013 constantly looked like it might finally surface but, beyond a screening in July, never did. Jeremy’s role appears to be that of a police officer. Jersey Boys, a film adaptation of the stage play about the ’60s group The Four Seasons, was released mid-year to some acclaim. Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven) directed and Christopher Walken (Catch Me If You Can) starred. Jeremy had a small role in that as… wait for it… a police officer. More recently we’ve had news on a couple of other roles for JR. A significant role in a short film called Keep It Together in which a now sober, soon to be father strives to save his uncle (Jeremy) from drinking himself to death. The other is a small role in a larger film called Give Til It Hurts. Two brothers seek to recover their inheritance. Jeremy is cast as ‘Elvis’. Both are due for release in 2015.
John Finn (Lt. John Stillman in CC) fans were disappointed in January when the Irish drama series An Bronntanas failed to materialise as expected. Like a small boat full of drugs and a dead body caught in a storm, the show was tossed about a lot. Would it be a series, edited down to a feature film length, or lost at sea? Eventually the show found its mooring as originally intended on the TGS TV network as a 5 part series starting in late October. John played a… wait for it… police officer investigating the life boat crew that found the stash of drugs and the dead woman. A TV show pilot headed by John Cusack (2012) about Wall Street in which John was due to star in some capacity never made it further. It could have been in the current 2014/2015 season. In better news John had guest starring roles in the short lived show Believe early in the year and, more recently, in the new CBS drama Madam Secretary. At this time there is no signs of future projects for John, but no doubt there is something in the pipeline.
Thom Barry (Will Jeffries in CC) was announced as a recurring guest star in the TNT crime drama Perception, lead by Eric McCormack (Will & Grace) and Rachael Leigh Cook (She’s All That). The news broke just after the show’s third season started airing in June of this year. 10 episodes later the show went on hiatus until February 2015 with no sign of Thom. There are due to be 5 episodes to conclude what will be the final season for the show. Thom is to play an senior FBI agent. There were reports, no oddly difficult to find, that Thom was to play the father of R&B star Aaliyah in a Lifetime network TV movie about her life. The show aired a few weeks ago but Thom was not in it. I’m still not sure what happened there. Just last month I reported on Thom starring in a short film called Desire. It was looking for crowdfunding at the time. Despite not reaching its target it went into production. The latest is that Desire is in the process of being edited. Back in May of 2013 I described a film called Richard Peter Johnson as the having a “triple-whammy name” that “says everything, yet tells us nothing”. Things have been largely quiet since but is still actively seeking buyers to distribute it. I still don’t think I can go into details on the film here on KM UK though.
Which brings us to our last, and anything but least, subject…
Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller in CC). It’s almost impossible to briefly sum up Tracie’s year as she has featured strongly in nearly all our CCCC-ups in 2014. Is there a word above ‘prolific’? Tracie came out of her corner punching with the release of women-fighting-for-their-lives movie Raze on some VOD services. The UK saw the DVD mid-year. Drama McCanick, in which Tracie had a small role, was similarly available on VOD and DVD in various parts of the world in 2014. She was in a short film that was broadcast on HBO called A Different Tree. Not content with being in films Tracie allowed her house to be used as a set for another called 2 Black Dudes. Then it was off to film another small role in the film The Concessionaires Must Die, which is still pending release. The new movie version of the classic Annie on the other hand was released a little earlier than intended. The massive hacking of Sony Pictures lead to the film being leaked online a few weeks before the official launch. Much of the world has already had the opportunity to sit in a cinema to watch it, with everywhere else seeing releases in the coming month or so. TV viewers got to see Tracie in guest starring roles in the comedy show Veep and the… what ever it is… MTV show Catfish: The TV Show. This year saw Tracie back treading the boards in the For The Record: Tarantino show, which show cased various musical numbers from Quentin Tarantino movies, as well as being the co-star in the new play Lost Lake, which came to the end of its run just last week. As if that wasn’t enough Tracie is to star in a new web series due to go into production next year called Send Me. And she hosted the Second Annual Hero Awards Gala in September and was in another 24 hour play (that’s 24 hours from initial idea to first performance, not a play that lasts 24 hours). Got all that?
Phew!
See you next year.
 Is it really a month since the previous CCCC-up? Well, yes and no. A quick extra update in early October means it is only 3 weeks. This, however, is the real deal. Welcome to the proper October 2014 round-up of news about the cast members of Cold Case that aren’t Kathryn.
We’ll start off with the basis for that special additional entry: John Finn (Lt. Stillman in CC). The Irish drama An Bronntanas (aka The Gift) débuted on the TG4 network last week. Hopefully those of you that wanted to see it got to do so. It was a good week for John fans as he made a surprise guest appearance on the hit new US drama series Madam Secretary the previous Sunday. The show stars Teà Leoni (Bad Boys) as Elizabeth McCord, the US Secretary of State of the USA. Hilary Clinton held the position a few years ago. It is in many ways the second most powerful job after President. We’re used to seeing John as the strong silent type that you know will ultimately do the right thing, even if it means taking one for team. He is often cast in a roles that involve wearing the uniform of a senior member of the armed forces such as a General on shows like NCIS. For Madam Secretary though, he was different. As US peace envoy Allen Bollings, John got to play a more ambiguous character. He still had that air of a military man and you would think as a negotiator of peace deals there would be little scope for a bad side to emerge. But it did. Allen did not do as instructed by Secretary McCord and was not exactly brokering peace. Allen had is own agenda. John does quietly angry very well. Hostilities nearly broke out with the middle east as a result.
I don’t watch Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (aka SVU), the long running drama series that Danny Pino (Scotty Valens in CC) joined after Cold Case ended, so I can only go by what I’ve read. It seems that in the early stages of the current 16th season Danny’s Det. Nick Amaro has been getting amorous with Det. Amanda Rollins (Kelli Giddish). Scotty finally bagged the blonde cop that many thought he should have done many years ago 😉 Speaking of Amaro, he’s going to be branching out from New York-set SVU with a guest appearance in the new-ish show by SVU creator Dick Wolf. The title Chicago P.D. probably tells you most of what you need to know about the programme that recently started its second season in the US. Danny/Nick is down for episode 7 which is due to air on November 12th. Scotty was the only CC character to cross-over into another show with a less than satisfying guest role in CSI: New York.
As usual we could write a book, or at least a lengthy post, just about Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller in CC) and her work since our last CCCC-up. The play Lost Lake, which is due to première on the 11th of November at the Manhattan Theatre Club, New York, has been in previews for the past few days. Lost Lake stars John Hawkes (The Sessions) and Tracie. She’s a mother who has taken her children away on a much needed holiday. He’s the owner of the the cabin by the lake they stay in. In addition to all that Tracie is due to star, as the lead no less, in a new web series currently under development called Send Me. It’s a drama about a university lecturer (Tracie) that has the power to send people back in time to see the slave trade in action. As is often the case these days funding is being sort for the project from the general public. You can find more details and a link to their Indiegogo page on the website. Coming up in December (January in the UK) is the release of a new movie adaptation of the musical Annie. In the past few days details of the soundtrack have been revealed. Tracie is not specifically listed as a singer but there’s little doubt she’ll be making her presence felt aurally in the larger ensemble pieces. Whilst most of the songs are sung by cast members Quvenzhané Wallis, Jamie Foxx, Cameron Diaz, Bobby Cannavale, and Rose Byrne; Australian pop/jazz singer Sia and Beck also feature. The soundtrack is due to be available a couple of weeks before the film.
More next month.
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