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Nearly the end of the month so it’s time to roll out another CCCC-up, KM UK’s look at the on-going careers of the significant cast of Cold Case that aren’t Kathryn.
Ha, ha. Fooled you. I’ve put a picture of Jeremy above but I’m going to start with Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller on CC)  We’ll come to Jeremy next. A whole year ago, in the September 2014 CCCC-up, I mentioned that Tracie was involved in filming a webseries called Sidetracked. The status of the project is still not clear all this time later but earlier this month Writer/director E.D. Brown released a set of promo videos. There are four short clips, each covering a different episode in the series about the lives of various people whose lives haven’t quite gone to plan. Who can say theirs has? Tracie stars in the video for episode two titled “We Live On Land”. You can watch it here on YouTube. From there you easily find the others. The series stars Adrienne Wilkinson (Xena: Warrior Princess), Ahmed Best (Jar Jar Binks in Star Wars: Episode I-III) and Wes Ramsey (CSI: Miami), and E.D. Brown herself, amongst others. A more recent work is No Touching which sees Tracie re-teaming with her Raze co-star Zoë Bell. It’s a short story described as being about “a shady haunted house attraction where the performers are assaulting female patrons”. As Zoë stars with fellow stunt performer Heidi Moneymaker (Scarlett Johansson’s stunt double in Avengers: Age Of Ultron), and her role in Raze, I think you can guess what’s going to happen when these two ladies visit the spooky amusement. Filming apparently started on the 20th. Tracie posted on social media that she’d finished filming on the 21st. Well, it is a short film. How Tracie fits in is not clear. She’s presumably not one of the guys doing the groping. More details on the project can be found on their Kickstarter page here.
Now on to Jeremy Ratchford (Nick Vera in CC). Since Cold Case ended Jeremy has mainly been seen in guest starring roles in shows such as Hawaii Five-O, The Mentalist and Bones. Three weeks ago he made appearance in the drama series Longmire. It may be set in modern day Wyoming but Longmire, based on the novels of Craig Johnson, clearly has a sensibility harking back to the classic westerns. Robert Taylor (Ballykissangel) stars as a sheriff still dealing with the loss of his wife. Katee Sackhoff (Battlestar Galactica) is his deputy. Together they keep the peace and solve crimes. Jeremy guested in the second episode, “War Eagle”, of the fourth season. Originally the show was broadcast by the A&E network in the US but they dropped it after three years. Netflix, as it does, picked it up and released all 10 episodes of the fourth run at once on September 10th.
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.
 To misquote someone: “It’s quiet in here, it must be Summer.”
All the major US TV show have started production on their autumn/fall seasons so news on castings is thin on the ground. However, I’m sure we can collect together a few tasty morsels from the month of July (is it July already!) for our regular round-up about Cold Case cast members that aren’t Kathryn, aka the KM UK CCCC-up.
Let’s start with the gentleman pictured above: Danny Pino (Scotty Valens in CC). The Imagen Foundation works to further the interests of the Latino community in the media. Each year they hold an event to honour those that have embodied that goal in the previous year. Not surprisingly they call it the Annual Imagen Awards. This year marks the 30th running of the ceremony. Danny is nominated in the Best Supporting Actor – Television category for his role as Detective Nick Amaro in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. He’s sharing the ballot with six other actors Justin Baldoni and Jaime Camil from Jane The Virgin, Raul Castillo (Looking), Joe Minoso (Chicago Fire), Carlos Ponce (Cristela), and Mel Rodriguez (Getting On). The gongs are handed out on the 21st of August. Good luck to everyone. Of course, we know that Danny won’t be repeating this next year as he is not returning to SVU for the upcoming season. No word on any future plans yet.
As short as this post might be it (like most others in this series) would be even smaller if it wasn’t for the works of Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller on CC). First up Tracie has a role in a forthcoming movie called Equity. It’s not about the value of a house or the UK acting union. It’s a Wall Street-based film, but one with a difference. Anna Gunn, in her first major role since Breaking Bad (I’m assuming most don’t count Gracepoint), leads the female-centred drama. Alysia Reiner (Orange Is The New Black) and Carrie Preston (True Blood) also star. There are some men too: Richard Kind (Spin City) and James Purefoy (Rome) amongst them. Not too sure about Tracie’s role but she did make some comments on Instagram about being Alysia’s “movie wife”. The other Tracie news is her guest starring in a series for Netflix called Love. It’s been created by writer/director/producer Judd Apatow (Knocked Up) and Lesley Arfin (Girls), and stars Gillian Jacobs (Community) and Paul Rust (I Love You, Beth Cooper). Love is… about Mickey and Gus’s relationship. It already has as 22 episode order split 10:12 across two seasons starting next year.
This goes beyond the normal scope of the CCCC-ups but some times you have to let these things go. Speaking of letting go… News broke in the last few days of the death at the age of 83 of Ann Rule, the writer of the book And Never Let Her Go which was turned into a TV movie starring Mark Harmon (NCIS) and Kathryn. The story is about Anne Marie Fahey (Kathryn), an emotionally vulnerable young woman, who disappeared in suspicious circumstances after ending an affair with a powerful and controlling attorney (Mark Harmon). It all becomes even more disturbing when you discover that it is very closely based on true events. Looking at Kathryn’s filmography it is difficult to believe that And Never Let Her Go comes between The Contender and A.I. Artificial Intelligence. As Anne Marie she seems much younger, and Kathryn brings that vulnerability across so strongly. Interesting facts of the day: Back in the 80s Harmon played serial killer Ted Bundy in a movie. Ann Rule was good friends with Bundy before he was found out. She was asked to write a book called Ted about a killer prior to finding out it was about Bundy.
 Squeaking in at the last minute again it’s June’s CCCC-up, the monthly post where KM UK looks at the continuing work of the Cold Case cast members that aren’t Kathryn.
I try to be a gentleman and always allow ladies to go first, but with the CCCC-up that would mean Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller on CC) would be leading the way every month so I try to let each have a turn. This time we’ll give Tracie her go at the top. In March I posted about the Fun Size Horror short films done for various websites for Halloween 2014 getting a DVD/VOD release in May. At the time I mentioned that plans were in hand for a new set of similarly scary fare for this year. Would you Adam & Eve it, a couple of weeks ago Tracie completed filming on a segment which will no doubt be released at the appropriate time in the autumn. Before completing that project Tracie was involved in the filming of a new webseries called Dinner At Lola. People from the ‘business that is show’ discuss the ‘business that is show’ over dinner (without the show).
One of our less frequent stars of the CCCC-ups is the gentle giant that is Mr Thom Barry (Will Jeffries on CC). Thom recently wrapped on a new movie called Henry Joseph Church, not to be confused with another film Thom is in called Richard Peter Johnson (which seems to be stuck in post-production hell). HJC, previously known as Cook, stars Eddie Murphy (Bowfinger) and Natascha McElhone (Californication) amongst others. Eddie is a cook. A young girl and her mother some how ‘inherit’ said cook. The director, Bruce Beresford, previously made Driving Miss Daisy, which may give us an idea of the tone. Thom is credited as ‘Frankie Twiggs’, who sounds like a 50s gangster from the east end of London. No further info at this time.
Veena Sud is a name that most of you will recognise. Occasionally I stretch the third ‘C’ in CCCC-up to include a few other key people involved with CC. Veena was a writer and producer on Cold Case across several seasons and she went on to do the same for the American version of the drama The Killing. There is no news on the actual project yet, but Veena has, in the last few days, signed a development deal with Fox 21 TV Studios to create new a drama for cable television.
Up for a bit of Cold Case chat with an actor that guest starred on the show?
Thanks to Todd Smitts, our resident expert in all things Cold Case, I have an update on a couple more of these Ask Me Anything Q&A sessions on the Reddit website.
This was Todd’s latest message to me:
[T]wo more Cold Case actors will be doing AMA’s on reddit this week. Ksenia Solo (Lena from “Cargo”) will be doing on at 5 PM eastern on June 8, and Ian Anthony Dale (Ray Takahashi from “Family 8108”) at 5 PM eastern on June 9.
Ksenia Solo is a Latvia-born Canadian actress who has starred in the movie Black Swan and the TV series Lost Girl amongst many other things. You may remember her in Cargo as the girl with curly hair, a look she doesn’t appear to sport these days. Currently she is busy with shows Orphan Black and TURN: Washington Spies and has a film called Another You out at some point this year. She’s a busy woman.
By the time Ian Anthony Dale guested in Family 8108 he’d already been a regular on shows like Charmed and Surface. He’s also guested on a lot of other shows. Bones, 24, all the CSIs, The Mentalist, Burn Notice, The Event, are just a few from a long list. Most recently Ian had a recurring role in Hawaii Five-O and a lead role in Murder In The First. He’s a busy man.
The Reddit IAmA page HERE has all the details etc.
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