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.

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’ .

Cold Case Cast Catch-up – December 2013

tracie_thoms_001_430x180 Welcome to our final look for 2013 at the careers of other members of the Cold Case cast in what we like to call our Cold Case Cast Catch-up, or CCCC-up for not very short.

Due to her prodigious work rate and willingness to Tweet about it we’ll start, as usual, with Tracie Thoms aka Kat Miller in CC. I believe that Tracie has completed filming on Annie, the Sony Pictures remake of the musical. She was photographed by the paps in early December filming on the streets of NY and was back home in LA last week. Of course Tracie may not have fully completed her work on the project. There could still be re-shoots, studio based filming, and audio work to do. It would be quicker to list who is not in this re-telling of the Annie story, suffice to say it is an all-star cast. See a previous CCCC-up for a few more details. The film is expected to be released a year from today on the 19th December 2014. Raze, the Zöe Bell starring fighting females movie, has finally got a release date for the US cinemas. It is the 10th January 2014. It originally premièred back in April at the Tribeca Film Festival. Also starring Rachel Nichols (G.I. Joe) and Sherilyn Fenn (Twin Peaks), Raze is about a group of women incarcerated against their will and forced into unarmed, to-the-death combat with each other. Clearly not a comedy as this brutal new trailer shows. Rachel also appears, albeit very briefly if reports are to be believed, in another film of Tracie’s: McCanick. David Morse is Eugene ‘Mack’ McCanik, an out of control cop hunting for a young criminal played by the late Cory Monteith (Glee Club) in his final role. It looks like McCanik is already out on DVD and Blu-ray in Australia but a theatre showing is expected in the US in the new year. In the last couple of days Tracie has Tweeted from Germany. She’s there as part of a series of events put on to entertain American troops stationed abroad. Not surprisingly, in Germany in this case. Tracie is billed alongside the likes of Gary Cole (Veep) and Raven Symone (That’s So Raven). The AITAF (Arts In The Armed Forces) is behind the trip. It is their mission to “honor, educate, inspire, and entertain all active duty and veteran members of the United States Armed Forces and their families by engaging them in the power and social service of the performing arts“. You can read about AITAF on their website.

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Kathryn @ The Hollywood Reporter’s Breakfast – Dec 2006

Or to give it its full title: “The Hollywood Reporter’s 15th Annual Women in Entertainment Breakfast”. Now there’s a mouthful

I’ve been trying to keep some of these nostalgia trips roughly in line with the same date that they originally happened. This post got pushed back more than week by other things so we missed, just. Kathryn, and her red coat, had breakfast with the Power 100 on the 5th of December back in 2006. The 2013 edition of this event happened just last week (11th Dec) so we were closer with that one and was attended by lovely ladies such as Angie Harmon (Rizzoli & Isles), Alyson Hannigan (How I Met Your Mother), Gillian Jacobs (Community) and Judy Greer (Arrested Development). But not Kathryn.

No one knows what actually goes on at these meetings. Or if they do, they’re not telling us! You don’t think they actually… eat breakfast do you?!?

The album in the Gallery has been updated with 5 more photos of Kathryn attending the do.