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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.

Cold Case Cast Catch-up – April 2016

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The year is going so quickly. We’ve nearly reached the end of April already. That means it is time for a look at the on-going careers of the non-Kathryn members of the cast in a Cold Case Cast Catch-up.

Before I get sidetracked let’s get Sidetracked The webseries by that name starring Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller on CC) was released on YouTube earlier this month. Sidetracked is made up of four episodes covering the intertwining lives of four friends over the course of what appears to be just one morning. As you go through each of the 10-15 minute long pieces you’ll see elements of what you’ve seen before. For instance, as two of the friends talk on the phone you will see more of the other half of the conversation later. Tracie’s Leigh, a make-up artist, is the focus of episode two. You can find links to all four episodes on the official website here.

If her Instagram posts are anything to go by Tracie has been involved in filming a short film called Pipe with her friend and Raze and Death Proof co-star Zoë Bell. When Zoë’s involved you know they’ll be fight scenes. It also looks like Tracie could be in an upcoming episode of The Mindy Project. Apparently the show is still going on the streaming service Hulu and has recently returned from hiatus. Who knew? No, Hulu.

Thom Barry (Will Jeffries on CC) items in these CCCC-ups are like buses. None for ages then two come around the corner at once. It was only last month that we had a meaningful update on the movie Mr Church. Now there are signs of a new film, Phoenix 454, being in the early stages of pre-production. Written by Melanie Star Scott from her own idea it appears to involve a main female lead and some form of motor racing. Maybe. Thom is listed as Frank ‘Primo’ Stallings. Not sure ‘stallings’ is the best choice for a film with cars featuring strongly in though…

Last month I covered the fact that the new CBS TV series BrainDead, which stars Danny Pino (Scotty Valens on CC), will be premièring June the 13th. Since then a couple of promo videos have been released. You can see brief glimpses on Danny in a very short the video on Twitter here and a bit more in a promo on MSN.com here.

Japan To Open Its Own Cold Cases

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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.

The Coin Comes Up Short(s)

I’m not writing ‘trumps’, the word has lost all comic value.

The Coin continues to prove itself a long-term short. It’s still pulling in further garlands after four years on the festival circuit.

At the Hang Onto Your Shorts Film Festival on Sunday (24th April 2016) Fabien Martorell won ‘Best Director Medium’ (presumably that means The Coin is classed as a not-so-short) for his work.

Congratulations to Fabien and the team for taking another award.

Christopher Lloyd (Back To The Future) was nominated in the ‘Best Actor Medium’ (again a reference to the film length and not the TV show or the actor’s height) category. Kathryn was cruelly overlooked in the similar section for Actresses. She did some top quality shouting.

The film was also up for the contradictorily named ‘Best Short Medium’ and ‘Best Concept’. I guess it came up… short in those 😉

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