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 It’s finally the end of May. Summer is starting and things are slowly opening up and restrictions relaxing in many places around the world. In these monthly posts we look at the careers of the other Cold Case cast members. They’ve been such a large part of our time with Kathryn we should do our small part to honour that.
Let’s kick-off with our headline (see pic above) act: Danny Pino (Scotty Valens in CC). Movie studio Universal Pictures has released a trailer for Dear Evan Hansen. You can watch it on YouTube HERE. I should warn that at over 3 minutes long, it does show many of the major elements of the plot. If you want to go into the film knowing little, might be best to give the video a miss. It was posted by Universal themselves less than 2 weeks ago and, at time of writing, as over 12 million views. Putting it well inside the top 100 most watched videos on the channel already. We get to see Mr Pino about 1 minute in. I say ‘Mr Pino’ as he is looking very distinguished with his greying temples. Danny (that didn’t last long  ) is playing the father of a boy called Connor. Amy Adams (Enchanted) plays his wife. The Evan of the title, played by Ben Platt (Pitch Perfect), is another boy at the same school who gets inadvertently caught in a situation. In many ways it is good thing that happened to him, but it will inevitably come crashing down. Julianne Moore (Still Alice) is Evan’s mother and Kaitlyn Dever (Last Man Standing) is Connor’s sister. The film is based on an award winning stage musical. Currently the film is slated for a late September release across most of the world, with the UK a few weeks later.
Last month’s CCCC-up covering of Tracie Thoms (Kat Millar on CC) mentioned her guesting in a ‘Virtual Hot Pink Evening’ in support of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Due to ‘current events’ the normal fund raiser was held online but it still raised around $6 million. Well done to all who took part of contributed. Tracie was involved as part of the cast of Rent.
Tracie had a good May, albeit relatively quiet by her standards, with a guest appearance in the animated series Family Guy. The episode was called ‘Family Cat’. Appropriately enough our Kat played the cat. The family adopt said cat, Pouncy, and Brian believes the cat is evil. Come on! Not exactly a big secret. All cats are evil really, even the good ones.
There is also news of Tracie starring in a new comedy/drama movie called The Requiem Boogie. Odd title, and the synopsis doesn’t turn that around. It is said to be about a former child TV star, best known for being in a sit-com, and various people visiting his house whilst he is dealing with the recent death of his father, also a famous actor. The film is said to be in post-production, suggesting it has been filmed. There are some well know faces in the cast alongside Tracie. Ever Carradine (A Town Called Eureka) and Hill Harper (CSI: NY) will be recognisable to most. No word on a release date.
In the latest in our series of ‘how long does Hollywood take?’ posts we bring you unfortunate news for our occasional co-star of the CCCC-up: Meredith Stiehm. Meredith created Cold Case and wrote several episodes. She also executive produced The Bridge and Homeland. The last time we mentioned Meredith here was to do with a new show based on a book by Cristina Alger called The Banker’s Wife. Nearly 3 years go (September 2018) was when news of this new project broke. Actor Rosamund Pike (Jack Reacher) was ‘attached’. In July 2019, it became known that Rosamund would no longer be involved but Amazon Studios had ordered 8 episodes for their Prime streaming service. Now it has been reported that the project has been abandoned. It had been delayed for obvious reasons, but the requirement to film in multiple countries across Europe to follow the story has made the production impossible the way things are in the world at the moment.
 The lockdowns are really starting to have an impact on the business we call show, as the pre-studio closure work has been broadcast and there is increasingly nothing new to replace it with. Some formats, such as chat shows, have been able to work around the limitations but the traditional drama series really can’t. As such there is going to be little to talk about in these monthly updates as the current situation goes on. We will continue to bring you news of the other Cold Case cast members work as best we can.
In circumstances like these we need to cling on to those that we can most rely on to be there for us. For the KM UK CCCC-up that person is Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller in CC). Every month, almost without fail, she gives us something to talk about. Often multiple things. This April is no exception.
Two of weeks ago now Tracie reprised her role as Dr. Diane Lewis in the Grey’s Anatomy spin-off Station 19, which is set in a fire station. As previously reported Tracie first appeared in this ABC drama three episodes earlier. In that one Dr Diane was in pretty much every scene as show spoke to various members of the fire fighting crew. Second time around the role looks to be a little smaller.
In a couple of days (2nd of May) Tracie re-reprises her guest starring role on the show that covers multiple emergency services: 9-1-1. This episode is the penultimate in the season and is the first of a two parter to end the run. A big draw for many fans will be the return of actress Connie Britton (Spin City) who lead the first season but seemed to make an abrupt exit. Jennifer Love Hewitt (The Client List) was brought in as a new character to replace her for season two.
For a little variety Tracie also recently took part in a discussion with Mia Schachter in a podcast called ‘Share The Load’. Look for it on your podcast app of choice.
After a great showing (beards excepted) last month we have been let down by the gents this time. Instead we have to look two ladies that appear less regularly but we like to mention when we can as they played a significant role in the making of Cold Case.
Despite the issues the world faces, April saw the launch of the mobile only short form video application Quibi. Some might say this was in fact the perfect time to do so. Veena Sud (writer and director on CC and The Killing), as we’ve talked about several times before on this site, created The Stranger for the platform. Maika Monroe (Independence Day: Resurgence) is Clare, who becomes an Uber (or similar) driver in LA to make some money whilst working on becoming a writer, when she meets her latest fare played by Dane DeHaan (The Amazing Spider-Man 2). Things take a turn, and not just the car. The reception to the 13 part seems largely positive. The one rule the platform seems to have is that each video can be no longer than 10 minutes. So, The Stranger is a two hour long thriller.
To finish up this month we must make mention of Cold Case creator Meredith Stiehm. She was heavily involved in the earlier stages of the long running drama series Homeland, which just reached its series finale (not quite in the UK). Meredith wrote 10 episodes and executive produced on over 40. More recently she’s been involved in the Writers Guild Of America, who have been battling legal issues with talent agencies, and we await further news on a show called The Banker’s Wife which we’re reported on a couple of times before (here & here). As the first news broke in September 2018 and here we are not far from two years later you can see how slowly these things work sometimes.
 The December Cold Case Cast Catch-up is made up of two parts. Part number one is the normal monthly latest news on the on-going careers of the CC main actors. The second section will be a look back at the year of CCCC-ups.
Errr… Looks like December has been a relatively quiet month on the news front for all our regulars.
Mid-month Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller in CC) was back home in Baltimore to take part in a reading of Thorton Wilder’s short one act play The Long Christmas Dinner. The event was held in the Baltimore Center Stage theatre as part of a fund raising effort to support various programs the venue runs. Written in the 1930s the 30 minute play covers 90 years worth of Xmas dinners of a particular family. Tracie played Leonora, the wife of family member Charles. After the reading there was a discussion/Q&A with the cast and crew.
Earlier in December was the release of the Apple TV+ drama series Truth Be Told. The first three episodes ‘dropped’ on the 6th. The remaining seven have been/will be released on a weekly basis across December and January.
Some of the older people amongst you may remember the sitcom Mad About You, starring Paul Reiser (Stranger Things) and Helen Hunt (Twister). As seems to be the trend these days, the show has been revisited for a new series (crossing fingers for CC). The original ran for seven seasons and 162 episodes starting in 1992. It made the two leads into huge stars. After MAY Paul primarily stayed working in TV whilst Helen mostly shifted to movies. The new series is a continuation of the show, set all these years later. Due to its distribution not being on a major network, despite the original being on NBC, the publicity has been relatively low key. This would be why I managed to miss the fact that Tracie apparently guest starred in the second episode, released on November 20th. That’s my excuse anyway.
Anyone else want to step forward? No?
OK, then Let’s move swiftly on to the review of the year’s reviews.
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 If you are bored of the English weather, just wait a short while and it will change. We’ve gone from the hottest day on record to rain the likes of which even we don’t see very often. We try to keep thing hot and pouring in the monthly CCCC-up news round-ups of Cold Case cast members (plus a few significant others) on-going careers. Here is July 2019.
Let’s start with a bit of news/not news/maybe news. I could have completely missed this previously but John Finn (John Stillman in CC) is being listed as a cast member of a TV movie called Republic Of Sarah. It is quite common for pilots of possible TV shows to be listed as TV movies prior to the switch to series. Occasionally the not picked up to series pilots are actually released as stand-alone TV movies. The arc of this news appears to be a pilot for a new CBS series announced in March, various cast members ‘attached’ over the coming weeks, and filming taking place late March/early April. Fast forward a month to mid-May and the announcement the network will not be moving forward. Now I’m seeing some updates being made to the IMDb page this month. We should probably assume that Republic Of Sarah is not going any further but it was worth noting it’s brief existence. For completeness the show was about a town in New Hampshire discovering it has a valuable resource in its midst and declaring itself an independent nation as a result. Jeffrey Paul King, writer/producer on Elementary, wrote Republic Of Sarah. Sarah Drew (Grey’s Anatomy) was the lead, the titular Sarah Cooper. James Lesure (Las Vegas), Kirsten Nelson (Psych), and Jonathan Slavin (Better Off Ted, any excuse to mention that show). John is listed but doesn’t have a character name. I’m tempted to suggest it was likely to be as Sarah’s father.
In definite John news, we have another trailer, the 3rd by my count but the 2nd to others, for the space epic Ad Astra. Brad Pitt continues to star as the astronaut looking for his missing father (Tommy Lee Jones). We get to briefly see and hear John in this one. The Moon features a few times too, possibly as a nod to the recent anniversary of the first Moon landings. Watch the latest trailer HERE on YouTube.
In ‘I dunno’ news, the same Comic-Con I haven’t referred to yet in this piece, saw a trailer shown for season 10 of The Walking Dead. John starred in the previous run. I don’t know if John’s character will return or even if he survived season 9. There were some big casting upheavals for the show before the previous season, which will have had an impact on the audience figures, so they may have made further changes to try and get things back on track. However, I don’t watch the show so am far from well placed to comment. Feel free to educate me in the comments below.
As reported here last month, the second season of FX network’s Sons Of Anarchy spin-off Mayans M.C. is due to première on the 3rd of September. At the recent Comic-Con in San Diego attendees were able to watch a sneak peak. Just before that a promo trailer was released which shows Danny Pino (Scotty Valens on CC) returning as Miguel Galindo. He’s looking very sharp with his facial hair and suit. Some may prefer he donned the biking leathers. Each to their own. You can see the trailer on YouTube HERE.
The September 2018 CCCC-up first mentioned that Cold Case creator Meredith Stiehm was writing the small screen adaptation of Cristina Alger’s book The Banker’s Wife. It was ‘optioned’ (meaning a contract was in place to turn it into a TV show or film) before the book was even published! Impressive. Gone Girl star Rosamund Pike was said to be starring and exec producing. Also impressive. In the past few days it has been announced the 8-part series has been ordered for production by Amazon Studios for it’s Prime Video service. Rosamund is no longer involved, she has another Amazon show instead, but Homeland director/producer Lesli Linka Glatter will be directing all eight episodes. This is a reunion of sorts as Meredith was, of course, a writer and producer on Homeland. No word yet on Rosamund’s replacement as the star or the taker of the role as the other of two women search for answers after a plane crash. Could the people behind Cold Case and Homeland think of two great female actors to lead such a project…?
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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