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 Blimey! September is one of those sneaky short months! It nearly caught me out!
There’s just a few hours left to squeeze in the latest catch-up with the careers of the other Cold Case cast in the KM UK CCCC-up for September 2014.
Danny Pino (Scotty Valens in CC) is a good place to start. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (aka SVU) started it’s latest season last week in America, it continues tomorrow (Wednesday). I can’t comment with any authority (because I don’t watch the show) but I gather that Danny’s Detective Amaro is currently working in the traffic division as part of a punishment for infractions at the end of last season. No doubt he’ll be back in a both the fold of the SVU squad and a suit before too long.
Whilst Danny only deals with one job, albeit one that takes the best part of 9 months of filming per year and many long hours, Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller in CC) is, as usual, seemingly dealing with multiple projects at once. A couple of weeks ago Tracie announced she’d been filming a webseries called Sidetracked. Details are sketchy but it appears to star Tracie, Adrienne Wilkinson (know to many for a recurring role in the TV series Xena: Warrior Princess), actress/model Kara Gibson, Wes Ramsey, and probably others. Various combinations of those people have worked together before. For example Tracie’s first TV role was with Adrienne in As If. The comedy drama is about a group of friends that realise life has not ended up as they intended. They’ve been… wait for it… Sidetracked. Back in June’s CCCC-up I briefly mentioned that Tracie had been cast in a new play called Lost Lake. The play is due to open at the Manhattan Theatre Club, New York, in early October and previews start a week or so later. A video of interviews with Tracie, co-star John Hawkes (Deadwood), and the playwright David Auburn popped up on YouTube a few weeks ago. They explain the play better than I could so I’ll leave that to them. To bring us right up to date, last night (29 Sept) Tracie hosted the Second Annual Hero Awards Gala in New York for the National Law Enforcement and Firefighters Children’s Foundation. The NLEAFCF is a charity that supports the families of police officers and firefighters killed or disabled in the line of duty. You can read more about their work on their website here.
To end this CCCC-up edition we come to Jeremy Ratchford (Nick Vera in CC). Jeremy has made a short film called Keep It Together. Main character Bobby is “recently sober and expecting his first child.” Jeremy plays not-so sober Uncle Paul who Bobby tries to save from his self-destructive path. Comedy? Probably not.
 It being mid-summer this will be a relatively quiet one but we’ll see what we can do for our latest Cold Case Cast Catch-up (aka CCCC-up) for August 2014. Each month I try to give brief updates on the careers of the members of the Cold Case cast that aren’t Kathryn.
After twice previously mentioning that Mr Thom Barry (see above, Will Jeffries on CC) had taken on a recurring role on the TNT drama series Perception I was assuming that this post would be the one to confirm it. However, the show finished its summer run last week, and is now on hiatus, with no sign of the a new FBI field office boss played by Thom. Presumably he will be appearing in the set of five episodes that close out the show’s third season due for broadcast from February 2015. Speaking of Thom, it looks like he has been signed to play the father of R&B star Aaliyah in a Lifetime network TV movie about her life. I gather that the project has been in the works for sometime and has had a few issues with casting and the family of the singer. With Alexandra Shipp (House of Anubis) taking the over lead role and talkshow host Wendy Williams exec producing, Aaliyah: Princess of R&B is due to première in the autumn. That is assuming it does not hit further problems.
It wouldn’t be a CCCC-up without mentioning Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller on CC). She’s is a one entertainment industry. The couple of weeks Tracie has been Tweeting extensively about the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. In amongst those messages she mentioned being on set, though didn’t reveal any more than that. For those in the US and with access to the Showtime network you can, apparently, see the woman-on-woman fight to the death movie Raze on there until mid-September. Check EPG for details. This weekend Tracie is due to have her final outing in the For The Record: Tarantino show, which features dramatised performances of songs used in films by writer/director Quentin Tarantino.
 Welcome to the latest of KM UK’s highly acclaimed (well I think it’s great, I exclaimed, whilst acclaiming it  ) look at the burgeoning careers of those Cold Case cast members that aren’t Kathryn. Yes, even I noticed a few others on screen with her Or, as I called it the Cold Case Cast Catch-up or CCCC-up. This month it’s June so this is the June edition. Clever huh?
One of the least regular appearers here is Thom Barry (Will Jeffries on CC). More’s the pity as we all like him. As busy as I am sure he is he doesn’t often trouble the headline writers. However, this month we get to report on Thom’s return to the small screen as he is due to start a recurring role on the TV drama series Perception. Eric McCormack (Will & Grace) stars as Dr. Daniel Pierce a lecturing neuropsychiatrist with enough of his own mental health issues to fill many a peer-reviewed paper. Rachael Leigh Cook (She’s All That) is the no-nonsense FBI Agent. He’s Pierce. She’s an exception…al detective. Together they are… Perception. Or something like that. Anyway, Thom Barry will be starring in the TNT network series as the Chicago (where the show is set) FBI office boss. Two episodes of the 3rd season run have aired so far with no sign of Thom. Still 8 more to go.
Jeremy Ratchford (Nick Vera in CC) is another of our less commonly talked about CC cast members in this monthly feature. After a special première screening to close out the LA Film Festival last week, the new film Jersey Boys went on general release in the US, Canada, and the UK last Friday (20th June). Jeremy is credited as ‘police officer’ so probably doesn’t have a particularly large role in this new Clint Eastwood-directed telling of The Four Seasons formation story. He’s not playing one of the singers (those roles have largely gone to less well known but experienced stage performers) but the biggest name in the cast has to be Christopher Walken as Angelo “Gyp” DeCarlo. Gyp was a ‘wise guy’ that helped the group lead by Frankie Valli in the time before they became a hit in the 70s. There’s at least one other Cold Case alumni in the cast. Kathrine Narducci who is Frankie’s mother in Jersey Boys was in CC episode The War At Home. Like a few of the other actors Katherine was in The Sorpranos.
Finally there is signs of life from the Irish drama An Bronntanas which stars John Finn (John Stillman in CC). Filmed last year, An Bronntanas (“The Gift”) was due to shown as a 5 part drama series early this year. Then it looked like it had been push back to the end of the year. The latest news is that it will be screened as a 2 hour film at the closing night of the Galway Film Fleadh in mid-July. Fleadh, pronounced “flar”, means festival. The drama is about a lifeboat crew that discover a huge haul of drugs and a dead body on a boat found at sea, and moral dilemmas it causes. Presumably this means it be released in that form at some point afterwards, whether that will be on the Irish TG4 TV channel or in cinemas is not clear.
Danny Pino (Scotty Valens on CC) next. Not much to say about Danny at the moment. We covered the return of L&O:SVO for a 16th season last month. It is for his role as Detective Nick Amaro on the show that Danny has been nominated for an Imagen Award in the Best Actor/Television category. The Imagen Foundation that created the award promotes the Latino culture within the media. An amusing element in the other nominations that the show Devious Maids is almost guaranteed to win the Best Actress/Television category. All but one of the 6 named ladies is from that show! The Imagen Awards ceremony will take place on the 1st of August.
And finally Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller on CC) but very much not leastly. We certainly say she seldom features here She is currently in Montreal with a travelling production of the For The Record: Tarantino show of music from Quentin’s films, we’ve mentioned previously. Last weekend Tracie was doing a 24 Hour Play (mentioned here last month). Starting ‘off Broadway’, which means smaller theatres near the famous area of NY, Tracie is taking a lead role in a new play called Lost Lake by awarding playwrite David Auburn. John Hawkes (The Sessions) will co-star. Veronica (Tracie) has takes her kids on a lake side holiday. Hawkes is the troubled owner of the establishment. Hilarity no doubt ensues… or maybe not.
 It is late in the month so it must be time for another edition of KM UK’s look at the on-going careers of the other cast members of Cold Case.
A few days after the last CCCC-up (April 2014) the news broke about the renewal of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (L&O:SVU). At the time there was some doubt whether the show would return for a 16th season. I won’t keep you in suspense, because you likely already know, that the SVU was renewed. Quite how involved Danny Pino (Scotty Valens on CC) will be in the first few episodes is not clear as his character, Det. Nick Amaro, is facing temporary demotion from the squad following several serious incidents. Nick has gone all Scotty and attacked a suspect. I don’t watch the show but I understand that Lilly/Scotty ‘shippers’ have finally got to see a glimpse o fwhat that could have looked like when Nick and Det Amanda Rollins (Kelli Giddish, who, with slight figure and long blonde hair, bears some resemblance to Kathryn/Lilly) were seen together in a way that could be taken as showing a relationship beyond being colleagues has started.
I try to delay the appearance of Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller in CC) in the CCCC-up as much as possible but I just have to bow to the inevitable each month. She’s a phenomenon. Two weeks ago she went all Simon Cowell and was one of a panel of judges at the Young Auditioners Program. The scheme was looking for an new actor to join the established stars in the annual 24 Hour Play that will take place in LA in a month’s time. Alongside the likes of Michael Ealy (Almost Human) and Gillian Jacobs (Community), Tracie helped choose an actor, an understudy, and assistant crew. Tracie has taken part in such events before. Last June’s CCCC-up included mention of Tracie working with, amongst others, Sasha Alexander (Rizzoli & Isles) on putting together a brand new stage play in just 24 hours in aid of charity causes supporting education, with a particular emphasis on theatre.
On a completely different tack, albeit still with Tracie, the movie Raze came out on DVD in the US last week (20th May). In the UK the DVD release is the 16th of June. The story of Raze involves a group of women held captive and forced to fight each other to the death to save their loved ones. Lead actress Zoë Bell (best known as a stunt performer on things like Xena) stars with Rachel Nichols (Continuum), Sherilyn Fenn (Twin Peaks) and Rosario Dawson (Seven Pounds) and other women. There are some blokes in there too. On the same day as the Raze hit the shelves Tracie attended the 15th Anniversary Heroes In The Struggle gala and awards held by the Black AIDS Institute. Tracie and Kevin Daniels (Modern Family) were among the award presenters at the event that evening.
Tracie’s appearance in the previously mentioned Catfish: The TV Show on MTV in the US is due to air next Wednesday (4th June). The episode is called “Tracie & Sammie” and apparently involves Tracie getting emotionally involved with a fan called Sammie. In the trailer for the season Tracie was heard asking about a funeral.
Speaking of TV shows, back in January I posted about Tracie starring in a pilot for the E! network. The show was called Songbyrd and was about a successful songwriter. It was loosely based on the life of the celebrated Diane Warren, who was involved in the production. As you may have guess from the use of the past tense it was announced in the last couple of days that the show won’t be going forward to series. E! have decided it didn’t really fit with their programming. There is a chance the show will be picked up by another network.
And to finish off this month’s CCCC-up a new trailer for the new Annie movie has been released. Tracie has a small role in the film which is due for release just before Xmas in America and elsewhere in the following weeks and months. Watch this latest taster on YouTube, you won’t see Tracie in it though.
I’ve left it rather late this month but there is just time to squeeze in our regular post on the careers of the Cold Case cast members that aren’t Kathryn. It’s April so we’ll make this the April update.
In an effort to stop this becoming the Tracie Thoms Twelve Tributes (it’s monthly) or the T4, or 4T, or Double TT (OK, that just got weird 😉 ) we’ll try and up the non-Tracie content this time. It might be difficult though. Don’t worry, we still love you Tracie 😉
Danny Pino (Scotty Valens on CC) is coming to the end of his 3rd season on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. It’s difficult to believe it has been that long already. Makes me feel older just thinking about that. There’s a joke in there somewhere about policeman looking younger every year. So far there is no word on whether L&O:SVU will get another season or not. As we know from Kathryn’s work on Cold Case you do a job on a show like that pretty much at the exclusion of everything else so there is little time for side projects. At the moment there doesn’t appear to anything in the pipeline from Danny. If you want wall-to-wall coverage on Danny’s work check out the great site Danny Pino Online. Tell them I sent you and say ‘hi’ from me.
Going up in rank we’ll move on to John Finn (John Stillman in CC). John is listed as being in the pilot for a possible new CBS TV series based around the machinations of Wall Street. Actor John Cusack (High Fidelity) is set to star and produce. The writers and exec producers from the TV series Justified are also behind the project. Charlie Cox (Boardwalk Empire) leads with David Morse (Treme), Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda) and Maggie Grace (Taken) co-starring. Morse’s character will be a powerful banker no doubt tapping into the world’s current distrust of financial institutions. Cox is to be an Iraq war vet turned banker, so we know he’ll be a good guy. Okonedo plays an assistant attorney general charged investigating the murky world of money. John Finn’s character is just down as Ritter at the moment. As of now the show is just known as Untitled Wall Street Project and is on IMDb as a “TV movie” which is often the case with pilots for series.
Next we’ll cast (see what I did there?) our net a little wider before pulling it back.
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