Cold Case – Book Him… Danno?

Speaking of Hawaii Five-O… No, actually that (including in its 2010 revived form) is one of the few recent cop-shows that Jerry Bruckheimer has not had anything to do with.

In late October of last year we saw one of the few public appearances in 2013 by Kathryn. The event was the launch of Jerry Bruckheimer: When Lightning Strikes – Four Decades Of Filmmaking, a book chronicling the life of film and TV producer extraordinaire Jerry Bruckheimer. Jerry and his company JBTV are behind such TV shows as the CSI triumvirate and, of course, Cold Case. The book was on sale from mid-December.

In that previous post I used the word ‘tome’ just as another word for book. However, the more correct usage in referring to large, heavy books was more accurate than I could have thought. The phrase ‘weighty tome’ would be more appropriate. It’s not so much a coffee table book, more of a coffee table. Stick four legs on it and you’ve got a significant piece of furniture. At 41.5 x 28.2 x 3cm (16.3 x 11.1 x 1.2″) it’s a whole lot of book. Roughly A3-sized for those outside the US. And it weighs a fair bit too so you get a lot of book for your money.

I won’t bore you with too much detail but When Lightning Strikes covers Jerry’s whole life as well as his career in film and TV through words as well as hundreds of photos from behind the scenes as well as stills from dozens of projects. Fans of the Pirates Of The Caribbean films (how many of been released? four? with at least two more on the way! that’s films not fans 😉 ) will be particularly interested in a foreword by Johnny Depp and whole section dedicated to the monster franchise.

So what about Cold Case and our Kathryn?

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KM Birthday Fan Art?

In just over 3 weeks from today it will be a certain special someone’s birthday. I think you know who I am talking about

We haven’t had a fan art update in nearly a year now so how about we revive it for the special occasion? We’ll call it the “Let’s Do Some Fan Art For Kathryn’s Birthday” thing. Hopefully after such a long time you have lots of pent-up KM fan art ideas.

The first rule of the LDSFAFKB thing is you must talk about LDSFAFKB.

The second rule of the LDSFAFKB thing is you must talk about LDSFAFKB. Spread the word to all your artistic friends.

On the special day (28th Jan) all the items will be added to the KM UK Gallery. Some examples will be used in the birthday post, with one lucky person getting their image used as the banner image for the item. Think of that as the prize, because that’s all you’re getting Above you can see the chosen item from last year by Dianekmfan.

Other than that the normal fan art ideas apply. It can be anything you want to make. It could be a banner, desktop wallpaper, avatar, a general picture, or a even a video. To get your works to me either email them directly, use the Contact form to let me know and I’ll get back to you ASAP, ~~or use the upload form below~~. Any time between now and then will be fine. Other than the obvious there is no real deadline on this.

The Fan Art section of the KM UK Gallery is chocked full of previous fan art created specially for and donated to this site by visitors. There are over 700 items in there already. The Gallery is also crammed to the rafters with images (over 60,000 at last count!) you can use as the basis for your masterpieces.

Thank you in advance for your contributions.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year from KM UK

Best wishes for 2014 to Kathryn and all her fans

I hope you will all join us in 2014.

KM UK Xmas Message 2013

Happy Xmas!

Happy Xmas everybody.

The last few years I’ve done this Xmas Message as a look back on the Kathryn-related news and events that we’ve brought you in the previous 12 months. When I first thought about writing this one I wondered what I could do. It felt like little had happened. Fortuntely further investigation proved me very wrong or this would be a very short piece.

The year started with much anticipation of the release of the Hallmark movie The Sweeter Side Of Life. After news of the film broke in May of 2012 we brought you comprehensive coverage, including promo photos and the first trailer. This continued in the first weeks of January with almost daily updates. The 19th of the month saw the première broadcast on the Hallmark channel in the US. We followed up with exclusive screenshots and my own review.

February brought us a little insight into the world of Kathryn with the discovery of her endorsement of a local juice bar. The short film The Coin, which was filmed in July of 2012, made the first of many appearances on KM UK during this year with some great on set photos. Almost exactly a year ago we’d seen the first trailer. This year would see a lot of news about the very intriguing short.

March, however, saw the news that so many of us had been waiting for since Cold Case ended in 2010: Kathryn was starring in the pilot for a new show called The Surgeon General. The show was to be a “procedural” based around the work of the “nation’s doctor” rooting out major health issues and featured British actor “Hello to” Jason Isaacs (Case Histories). After the high regard that his previous US TV series Awake was held in, Jason had his choice of new shows. The fact that he went for The Surgeon General made it a good candidate for being picked up to series. It was up against some strong opposition though. Even the safe bet of an NCIS spin-off didn’t make it, and neither did The Surgeon General. That news came in mid-May. We were very fortunate to get some photos taking during the production process at the time from her co-stars Alex Dawson and Kristen Shaw, and her stand-in Melissa Rutland (see photo on the left). Thank you ladies. Both Kristen and Melissa are based in Atlanta, where the Rod Lurie directed pilot was filmed.

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Ghost Of Xmas Past

The lucky young gentleman you see here (larger version in the Gallery) getting a hug from Kathryn is Ridge Perkett. You may recognise him from the episode of Cold Case called Ghost Of My Child, the finale (episode 18) of season 5. That was the season that had fewer episodes than the normal 22-24 due to a writers strike that hit much of Hollywood during the 2007-2008 production runs.

Spoiler Alert: In a memorable scene at the very end of Ghost Of My Child, Lilly and Scotty take Max (Ridge) back to his biological parents, letting him out of her car and pointing across to them.

Ridge featured many episodes of the very long running soap opera The Bold And The Beautiful as Ridge “RJ” Forrester Jr., the son of Brooke Logan Forrester (played by Katherine Kelly Lang). There can’t be many Ridges in the world and but this boy becomes an actor and managed to land a role with the same name. As is often the case with child actors there have been several RJs over the years. Perkett had the job from 2006 to 2009.

The website Star Kidz is all about ~~kidz~~ kids that… star in daytime and primetime television shows. The last few days they’ve run a series of short interviews with some of their subjects, including Ridge, as a countdown to Xmas 2013. On Friday it was Ridge’s turn and in the piece (“5 Days Til’ Christmas!“*) he was asked:

8. What was it like working with Kathryn Morris on Cold Case?

Kathryn Morris was super nice, she showed me around the set before we started filming and helped me not be afraid and nervous.

Awww.

Happy Xmas Ridge.

* There are no direct links to the article so I’ve used an archive link to reduce it to ones about the character of RJ. You need to scroll down to find the piece. Search the page for ‘ridge’ .