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Monday? Feeling BrainDead?

With only a few hours of the weekend remaining there is just time to squeeze in a couple of reminders.

Tomorrow (Monday, 13th June) sees the première of the first episode of the new CBS comedy-drama BrainDead starring everyone’s second favourite Scotty: Danny Pino.

There have been a few reviews published by various outlets in recent days and it is fair to say they have been a mixed bag. Many love it, others think it does not work.

Comedy is a tricky thing. Make a dramatic movie and you could have a two minute long segment in the middle where nothing happens (no drama) and no one would bat an eyelid. Make a comedy and have the same lack of the period with no jokes and it’s considered a failure. That’s makes comedy even harder to make. So, why do all the Oscars go to dramas?

My excuse for mentioning the show again is that it sounds interesting and therefore might be worth a watch. With the state of politics at the moment (I gather soundbites from the recent presidential campaign have been included) it might give you a few extra laughs. Or terrify you. Or both. And Danny’s in it for those that like a bit of Valens.

Monte Carlo TV Festival 2007 Photo Update

In honour of today’s Formula 1 race in Monte Carlo, Monaco today I have an appropriately placed set of photos.

Kathryn made a lot of public appearances in 2007 to publicise the Resurrecting The Champ movie and Cold Case, as it was in full swing at that time.

In mid-June (so it is nearly date appropriate too) of that year Kathryn was a guest of the Television Festival in the principality of Monaco. She attended various events and gave several interviews.

We’ve been here before but now I have added 9 new photos in the Gallery from this photoshoot and interview.

Colony On DVD In July

There is something deeply unsettling about the idea of a faceless entity arbitrarily dividing the human race up for unknown reasons.

Are you in area 2? Do those in area 1 seem to have it much better?

But that’s enough about DVD region codes…

July 12th, 2016 sees the first season DVD release of the TV series Colony. In America that is. It is on the country’s local Amazon website here. The price at present is $24.

The USA Network’s 10 episode sci-fi-ish show will be in a three disc box set. Along with a behind-the-scenes documentary, that was aired before the first episode went out, there is said to be some deleted scenes.

Publicity photos of Kathryn in the show included shots from scenes we’ve not seen. Could they be part of the extras?

Colony is set in a modern day earth that is under the control of aliens. The world’s defences have been disabled and what is left of humankind has been allowed to remain living in walled-off ‘blocks’ of major urban centres like Los Angeles. Josh Holloway (Lost) and Sarah Wayne Callies (The Walking Dead) are a husband and wife that find themselves on opposite sides of collaborate/resist divide. He’s a works as an agent for the security services keeping the peace for the ‘hosts’. She’s trying to help the fight-back against the oppressive regime. Both are doing so for the sake of their family.

Kathryn guest stars in three episodes as an art curator in the more comfortably accommodated ‘green zone’. She’s also the wife of Adrian Pasdar’s (Heroes) politician who has ambitions of moving up the power tree.

There are three images showing the DVD box art now in the Gallery.

6 Years And Counting

“2009, 2010 wanna make a record how I felt then”

To quote part of Arcade Fire’s aptly titled song Month Of May.

Here on KM UK we mark a few anniversaries each year. Most are happy occasions, but some are inevitably less so. This is one of those.

On the 2nd of May 2010 the CBS television network in the US of A broadcast the very last episodes of Cold Case. The back-to-back broadcast of two episodes (Paradise Lost and Shattered) closing out season seven that Sunday night six years ago brought the show to a close.

It’s legacy lives on as we saw just a few weeks ago when it was announced that a Japanese version has been put into production. Perhaps the recent rise of the ‘Scandi drama’ series with more story and less chasing and shooting could also be put down to the character focus of Cold Case. Producer Veena Sud went on to make the American version of The Killing don’t forget. Plus, all over the world the original is still being repeated regularly.

Another legacy of Cold Case is the wonderful cast and they’re burgeoning careers. We regularly remind ourselves of them in the monthly Cold Case Cast Catch-up posts.

Japan To Open Its Own Cold Cases

Hello!

Oi! I’m over here!

Left a little more!

Glad to see you finally managed to drag yourself away for a moment Can’t blame you though. It is more than a little captivating isn’t it? I didn’t need a good excuse to post it again, but I’ve got one anyway.

Last week it was announced that WOWOW TV in Japan had signed a deal with Warner Bros. to create their own local version of Cold Case.

The new production is said to be made up of 10 episodes which will première in October of this year (2016). The wording in the press release says that that number have “already been commissioned”, so it could very well be added to before broadcasting starts.

The plan appears to be to take the essence of Cold Case, that it is about the people and their stories and not the science or gun fights, and write new tales around that ethos. Japan has an incredibly rich history to draw from and huge capacity for story telling so I am sure they will not be short of ideas.

Although it wasn’t said in the official statement, according to an IMDb listing the show is called Cold Case: Shinjitsu no Tobira. A few attempts by me at translating have come up with ‘Shinjitsu’ meaning something like ‘truth’ and ‘Tobira’ as ‘door’ or ‘opening’. So, it could be something like ‘door to truth’. If any of our Japanese friends want to help out please comment below.

WOWOW TV has broadcast the whole of the original Cold Case in Japan. The event pictured is Kathryn’s 2007 visit to Tokyo promoting the 3rd season of the show. Enjoy more details (and pictures!) here. The day before that she also took in the Japanese première of a Harry Potter movie, as posted about here.

The full Warner Bros. International Television/WOWOW TV press release can be seen here at the Broadcasting Cable website.

There is also an official WOWOW TV website (in Japanese of course) for the show to be found here.

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