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It’s still February, right? (Déjà vu?) Just when you think you’ve got used to the 28 day long month they go and throw in an extra 24 hours. Typical! It’s like they do it every four years (ish) just to catch us out!
As last month’s CCCC-up (where we look at the on-going careers of the Cold Case cast) was a little late and a lot rushed (no pun intended) I managed to miss out a few things. I’ll try and do a bit better this time. No promises though.
It was all about Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller in CC) last time and it was some of her stuff I forgot so I’ll start with her to redeem myself.
9 Rides (aka Nine Rides) is by writer/director Matthew A. Cherry (Almost Home) and is a feature film about the very much vehicle of the moment (pun very much intended) an Uber driver and his News Year’s Eve. For those of you living under a rock Uber is a effectively a taxi service run by individuals under the control of a smartphone app. If you don’t know a smartphone is… Customers use the app to request a car. Uber drivers can choose which jobs to respond to. Despite the ‘indie’ image Uber is a well funded operation which takes a cut from each fare. They operate in cities all over the world, with a lot of opposition from local taxi services. It is not without controversy to say the least. I digress. Dorian Missick (Southland) is the unnamed ‘Driver’ who receives some very bad news. Tracie is listed in the cast as ‘Fiancee’. The film is due to première at SXSW festival in March (11-19th). There is a Kickstarter page raising money to help with the final post-production elements with more details and a teaser video HERE.
Love. Remember when that was all the rage two weeks ago? Well, just after that Netflix released the Judd Apatow (Knocked Up) / Lesley Arfin (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) / Paul Rust (I Love You, Beth Cooper)-created comedy series Love starring the aforementioned Rust and Gillian Jacobs (Community). Tracie stars as Susan in five of the 10 episodes in the first season. The show has already been signed up for a second run. I hear good things about it so it might be worth checking out if you can.
As is the way of these things a few days after the last CCCC-up news broke of a Lifetime network movie called The Real MVP: The Wanda Pratt Story being put into production. It is about the mother of NBA star Kevin Durant. I don’t know basketball but I gather Kevin is a big deal in the sport. The film is about the struggles of his mother Wanda to raise two sons alone. Apparently Kevin famously dedicated his 2014 winning of the ‘Most Valuable Player’ award to his mother calling her “the real MVP”. Tracie plays a close friend of Cassandra Freeman’s (Single Ladies) Wanda. Queen Latifah (Bringing Down The House) is producing. Filming was already under way when this story appeared at the beginning of February. It is expected to be first aired in time for the American version of Mother’s Day on the 8th of May.
To mark Black History Month (February in the US) the Word Theatre in LA put on a free show called And All That Jazz. Tracie was amongst the many stars at the Hall Of Liberty performing an of ‘inspiring evening of stories, poetry and memoir’ about the jazz greats. As we all know Tracie is very accomplished singer as well as actor.
Again, a few days after the delayed Jan CCCC-up it was announced that the new comedy thriller BrainDead, from the makers of the soon to end The Good Wife, had signed Tony Shalhoub (Monk) as another lead actor. The show, set in political world of Washington DC but with zombies, was first covered in the Dec ’15 CCCC-up when Danny Pino (Scotty Valens in CC) was added to the cast. The show is due to première this coming summer on the CBS network.
It’s been a busy couple of weeks for John Finn (John Stillman in CC). He had guest starring roles in recent episodes of The Good Wife and Elementary (the US TV modern take on Sherlock Holmes). I can’t comment on his roles in either show.
Stretching our remit (as we do occasionally) to stretch the piece we note that regular Cold Case writer and producer Veena Sud (US version of The Killing) has been chosen to write an American remake of the German movie We Monsters. The original film is new, having had a North American première at the influential Toronto Film Festival just last September and centres around recently separated parents forced to get back together to help their teenage daughter cover up a murder.
It’s still January, right? For the next few paragraphs lets pretend that it is to cover for the fact that I managed not to post this before the end of January. It is an easy mistake to make as it’s one of those tricky 31-day long months 
There is not much to say about the on-going careers of the Cold Case cast in January’s (ahem) KM UK CCCC-up. Xmas, New Year and run up towards pilot season may have played a part in that.
If it weren’t for Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller in CC) I’d not be posting anything at all so I’ll start (and end) with her.
The Sundance Film Festival première of movie Tracie is starring in called Equity, as mentioned last month (it is still January, remember…) happened a few days ago. Equity is a Wall Street-set drama. The twist on the normal run of things, not that it should be considered a twist at all these days, is that the principal characters are women. Anna Gunn (Breaking Bad) leads the cast along with Sarah Megan Thomas (also a producer), Alysia Reiner (Orange Is The New Black), James Purefoy (token male ), and Carrie Preston (True Blood), amongst many others. The film was also written and directed by women, Amy Fox and Meera Meron respectively.
It was announced less than a week ago that Sony Pictures Classic had bought the global rights to distribute Equity. Beyond the recent première no release dates have been announced yet.
The web series Send Me, which Tracie leads, is on for its release in February (next month…) as mentioned in the December 2015 CCCC-up. The 4th is the planned date, with preview material appearing on the project’s YouTube channel on the 1st of Feb. Find all the info about the series, which centres around Gwen (Tracie) who has the ability to send people back to the time of slavery, on its website here.
What better way to end the year than a quick round-up of new in the careers of the main Cold Case cast from December. Here on KM UK we call it the CCCC-up. For obvious reasons Kathryn is excluded.
Not for the first time news has broken on one of our CC alumni just after a CCCC-up was posted. Sure enough within hours of our November item it was announced that Danny Pino (Scotty Valens in CC) will be returning to the CBS network, after a four season stint on NBC for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. The creators of the hit series The Good Wife have a comedy thriller in the works called BrainDead and starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead (The Returned). It is set in the political world Washington, D.C. Intriguingly, apparently it includes a zombie and aliens element. Congressmen and other staff have had their brains eaten by aliens. Brainless politicians… Surely the jokes pretty much write themselves at this point? Danny will be Mary’s brother, a Senator from Maryland. BrainDead is due to air next summer.
A CCCC-up is not complete without a mention of Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller in CC). She always gives us something to post about. Back in the summer (it seems so long ago now) we reported on a movie Tracie was starring in called Equity. It has been scheduled to have its world première at the Sundance Film Festival which takes place towards the end of January. Following on from August’s update about the Tracie-led web series Send Me there is news. The plan is for the series to be premièred in February, which is Black History Month. Send Me is about a woman (Tracie) who has the power to transport people back in time to the era of slavery in America.
It feels like a worryingly short time since the last Cold Case Cast Catch-up at the end October. We’ll keep it brief this time with just a couple of pieces of news about the on-going careers of key members of the cast of the long running drama series.
In the middle of November Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller on CC) took part in another 24 Hour Plays event. Multiple small groups of actors, writers, producers, and musicians get together to each create a new stage production in just, you guessed it, 24 hours. These happen several times a year in various places. This one was on Broadway in New York and was the 15th time they’ve held it there. Tracie worked with Vanessa Williams (Desperate Housewives), Rosie Perez (White Men Can’t Jump), and Kevin Daniels (Sirens TV series). A lot of other actors took part. Edie Falco (Nurse Jackie), Diane Neal (recurs within the NCIS family of shows), Jason Biggs (Orange Is The New Black), Rachel Dratch (30 Rock), Kathy Najimy (Veronica’s Closet), Julia Stiles (Blue), John Krasinski (the US version of The Office), Molly Ringwald (Pretty In Pink), Phylicia Rashad (Psych), and Geoffrey Arend (Body Of Proof) were amongst the stars present. The shows were performed in aid of the Urban Arts Partnership which helps students in under privileged areas by funding arts projects.
November saw Jeremy Ratchford (Nick Vera in CC) continue his run of guest starring roles in prime time US TV shows. Since Cold Case ended Jeremy has appeared Shameless, Hawaii Five-O, Perception, and It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia. Just this year he’s also turned up in The Mentalist, Bones, and Longmire. The latest work is as another police officer in an episode of NCIS. Jeremy was an old colleague of Michael Weatherly’s character Anthony DiNozzo who used to be a detective in Baltimore.
I know we are on the eve of Halloween but don’t be afraid this is just our CCCC-up (Cold Case Cast Catch-up) round up for October 2015. If there is significant news about the on-going career of the major players in the TV that was lead by Kathryn we bring it to you each month.
Let’s go by police rank in descending order this month.
John Finn (John Stillman on CC) is down to appear in a movie due for release next year. It is called Gifted and is about a man bringing up his young niece after her mother (his sister) dies. The substitute father is in a custody battle over the girl with his mother. It is not clear at this stage how John’s character fits in. Aubrey Highsmith does not share a surname with any of the main characters so perhaps we are looking at a neighbour or someone in the legal team dealing with the custody. Chris Evans (the star of Captain America, not the soon-to-be Top Gear host), Lindsay Duncan (The Honourable Woman), Octavia Spencer (The Help) and Jenny Slate (Married) are among the stars.
The long running process of production and release of the film Death Valley is something we’ve covered several times here on a CCCC-up. It looks like it was finally became available to the public last week. Jeremy Ratchford (Nick Vera in CC) has a small role (I think) as a police office as I showed all the way back in September 2013! Katrina Law (Arrow), Lochlyn Munro (True Justice), Victoria Pratt (Mutant X), Kelly Hu (Arrow) all star in the tale of a group of people, strangers apparently, travelling across the eponymous desert in California when they hit someone with their car. Hilarity ensues, or maybe not.
As usual Ms Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller on CC) has decided to out-do everyone else. She’s filmed something called The California No. Not sure what it is at this time, it could be a TV show or web series, but the name is a reference to a method that Californians have of avoiding awkward questions. Rather than just saying ‘no’ they do nothing. As well that Tracie’s set to star in a movie presumably due out in a year’s time. I presume that because it is called A New York Christmas, is said to be currently in post-production, and has a date of 2016. It’s hardly likely to be a big draw in the summer so we’ll assume next autum/fall at the earliest. The film is a multi-stranded story set in a hotel just because Xmas. Jaime Ray Newman (Eureka), Ross McCall (White Collar), Jamie Bamber (NCIS), and Linda Park (Star Trek: Enterprise) star. Also, Tracie returned to singing for the first time in a while at a charity event for the National Breast Cancer Coalition.
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