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Coming Soon – Summer Of HD 2014

Do you want the good news or the bad news?

I’m hearing “bad news” so bad news it is.

Last year’s Summer Of HD was based around season 2 of Cold Case because you, dear reader, chose it in a poll. I’ve got the post to prove it, so don’t deny it. The bad news is it that that means you get season 3 this year.

The good news is that KM UK’s Summer Of HD for 2014 is all about season 3 of Cold Case

As most of you will be familiar with by now the Summer Of HD is a chance to revisit Cold Case and update the site’s Gallery with new HD screencaps covering Kathryn’s role of Lilly in the show. Along the way they’ll be a few extras thrown in.

In a new twist for 2014 you get to decide which CC episodes we do. OK, we’re still doing them all but you get to have some say in the order they are posted. Yay! for you! Each week there will be poll with three episodes to chose from. The poll will run for one week and the winning episode featured the week after that.

So, this week we run the poll for Summer Of HD week 1. Chose your favourite from the three below. Next week come back to vote for week 2. Seven days later the first of our episodes posts will include the poll for week 3. Got it? Then let us begin our journey:

Summer Of HD 2014 - Week 1

Ep 18 - Wilkommen (60%, 3 Votes)
Ep 3 - Bad Night (40%, 2 Votes)
Ep 11 - 8 Years (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 5

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Hell Swarm

It’s a double bank holiday weekend so prepare for rain.

Going through my very long to-do list for KM UK I realised that I have never written here about Hell Swarm, despite screencaps from it being in the Gallery from day one. It’s been a while since the last one so it is time for another of my “it’s been in the Gallery from the beginning but I’ve never written about it here” posts.

I sat down to write a lengthy review of it, and even re-watch the film if necessary, and then I realised that I’d written a review ages ago for the Look Again Cold Case fan site. So, along with having the screencaps already, I don’t need to write anything new. Result! It turned into a Good Friday after all

You can read my particularly entertaining take on Hell Swarm HERE.

However, to prove I’ve done something new for this post I have sweetened the deal a little with a set of small video clips and a couple of miscellaneous images.

All the Hell Swarm goodness/badness can be found in the Gallery.

Oh yes, Happy Easter/Friday/Saturday.

Kathryn @ Toyota Pro/Celeb Race Day – April 2007

Oops! I’m sure that’ll polish right out! 😯

That was from the practise day so no worries.

Three weeks after the training it was race day. On this day (14th Apr) in 2007 (it was a Sunday that year) Kathryn took part in the Toyota Pro/Celebrity race in aid of the Racing For Kids charity that supports local children’s hospitals. Last year we brought you a photo of Kathryn and George Lucas visiting one of those hospitals that receives funding a few days before the race.

As well are four more photos from the weekend we have two videos. One is from the practise day. The second a longish highlights show covering the race. Kathryn features multiple times in both videos so try and watch them all the way through. Find it all in the KM UK Gallery.

Thanks to Jan Wagner at the Automatters website for allowing KM UK to post their photos.

In the race Kathryn finished a creditable 13th out of the 17 taking part. Not bad on her first ever race. Dave Mirra (BMX racer) won outright despite coming up through the field from 30 seconds behind with the other Pros Bucky Lasek (X Games winner) and Scott Kelly (drag racer). Tennis legend and returnee to the event, Martina Navratilova, was 2nd (1st celeb) and Joshua Morrow (The Young And The Restless) was third. George Lucas continued to disappoint in spectacular fashion by crashing out and taking innocent victim Annamarie Dean (charity fund raiser) with him. Kathryn and Emily Proctor (CSI: Miami) weren’t able to put the first part of their evil plan into play. We don’t know if the managed the second part. Watch the video to find out more.

The 2014 version of the event happened yesterday (13th April) and was won by returnee Brett Davern, who finished 2nd last year. Brett will be known to Cold Case viewers as Lilly Rush’s half-brother Finn Cooper. Currently Brett can be seen in the TV show Awkward. (with a full-stop).

Murder, She Wrote: A Story To Die For – Saturday ITV

I’ve posted several times over the years about this post-series Murder, She Wrote TV movie getting airings in the UK. Up to now all those screenings have been on the sister ITV3 channel. On Saturday it returns to the big leagues on the main ITV1 channel. You’ll have to get up early (for a Saturday) to catch it though as it’s a 9:30 start.

In January there was big Murder news as it was reported that the US TV network NBC had decided not to go ahead with making a pilot of a remake after they’d had a re-think. Isn’t re-imagining the same as re-thinking? Oscar winner Octavia Spencer (The Help) was signed up as the lead in the re-imagining.

Original Murder, She Wrote star Angela Lansbury was said to be “terribly pleased and relieved” at the news of the project’s cancellation. Fans of the show seemed largely to be against the idea as well. A few weeks prior to that, Angela, who in 2014 celebrates 70 years in the business known as “show”, received the Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list for her acting and charity work. She may have lived and worked in the US for much of her life but Angela is British by birth and holds dual citizenship so can use the attached title of Dame. Non-citizens can hold the honorary title and are only allowed put the letters after their name. 20 years ago Dame Angela was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire), which has no title attached, so getting the DBE is a promotion. The equivalent to the DBE for men is the KBE, or Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, which gets you a Sir.

A Story To Die For was the second of four TV movies made in the seven years after the series finished its amazing 12 season run of 264 episodes in 1996. (This post is brought to you by the numbers 2, 4, 7, 12, 264 and 1996, and the letters K, M and U ). As we know, earlier in her career Kathryn had a small role in one of the last episodes of the final season of the TV series. The episode title was What You Don’t Know Can Kill You and KM UK covered it HERE. Hopefully that episode will be broadcast on UK television at some point in the not to distant future.

Kathryn’s role in A Story To Die For is quite significant in its air time and importance to the plot. Details of the broadcast can be found on the Radio Times website.

Screencaps (such as the one above) from the film can be found in the Gallery.

Golden Coin Wins In France

The award winning short film has won an award. Another one.

As I originally posted back in January, The Coin was screened last Saturday (5th April) at the south of France-based Avignon International Short Film Festival (known better to locals as the “Fenêtre Sur Courts” Festival International du Film de Court Métrage d’Avignon).

The event proved fruitful for the 9 minute-long movie The Coin as the co-writer and co-producer Fabien Martorell took the prize for his other role as the film’s director.

Congratulations to Fabien and everyone else involved in this project for its continued success.

Next stop (that we know about so far) is the Newport Beach film festival in two weeks time.