The KM UK advent calender [...]]]> I think everyone that has Xmas decorations has at least one that’s old and tatty.  You’ve had it for years and you should probably throw it away and buy a new one.  But it is practically part of the family.  It’s tradition so you have to use it, every year…

The KM UK advent calender returns for 2011.  This year’s theme is “The Many Hair Styles Of… Kathryn Morris”.  The image behind each “door” is taken from a film or TV series and showcases a different hair style that Kathryn has sported.  There are some classics.

Starting tomorrow a new picture will be revealed each day (if I remember to do it).  Feel free to post comments and rate each individual hair style as they are revealed, perhaps come up with nicknames for them.

You can find the advent calendar HERE, and I have added a link in the menu on the right.

The Advent Calendar is now closed.

Yet again I find myself humbled by the generosity of KM UK readers.  The time and effort you put in to help me and my little website is amazing.  Kathryn is very lucky to have such wonderful fans.

Thank you to IcyWinter (it was her idea), Smallbarbie (the [...]]]> Some times dreams do come true 

Yet again I find myself humbled by the generosity of KM UK readers.  The time and effort you put in to help me and my little website is amazing.  Kathryn is very lucky to have such wonderful fans.

Thank you to IcyWinter (it was her idea), Smallbarbie (the amazing image above) and Lolly (…hello) for the great new Wallpapers and Banners at such short notice.

Oh yes, and Happy 4th of July to our American cousins, especially Kathryn

The Tumblr website Texts From Castle takes bizarre mobilephone text messages from the Texts From Last Night and applies them as funny captions to images from the fantastic TV show Castle.

Inspired by this Lolly (aka Gina), funny girl and KM UK regular, has set up a Tumblr [...]]]> A bit of fun for a Friday.

The Tumblr website Texts From Castle takes bizarre mobilephone text messages from the Texts From Last Night and applies them as funny captions to images from the fantastic TV show Castle.

Inspired by this Lolly (aka Gina), funny girl and KM UK regular, has set up a Tumblr site of her own called Texts From Cold Case.  Of course now the text messages are applied as captions to pictures from Cold Case.

I’m sure that if you feel inspired to make a contribution of your own Lolly would be happy to accept submissions.  Contact her via Tumblr.  If you are looking for art work to use then I think you probably already know where to go to find the biggest and best collection of Cold Case images there is… Wait!  Where you going?  I meant here in the KM UK Gallery

A link to the Texts From Cold Case site has been added to the KM Websites list on the right-hand side of this site.

Today is the day that Cougars, Inc. is officially released to the world, or at least the North American parts of it, via on-demand services after its première last night.  On the 10th of May the same region will be able to get our hands on the DVD [...]]]> The Cougars are Comin’ At Ya!

Today is the day that Cougars, Inc. is officially released to the world, or at least the North American parts of it, via on-demand services after its première last night.  On the 10th of May the same region will be able to get our hands on the DVD and Blu-ray versions (21st April in Germany).  But you may want to hold off on that hard copy purchase for now…

KM UK can exclusively reveal that two weeks after the discs are available a very special Blu-ray edition will be announced:  Cougars, Inc. 3D.  All the fun of the original but with added depth!

Filming was not done using 3D cameras so the effect has had to be added in post-production using a technique known as advanced proportional rectified interlace level field optical over layering.  This is a complicated procedure that extracts depth information from 2D images and re-applies it in certain ways to create the stereoscopic effect.  The time it has taken to perfect this technique is one of the reasons the movie was not released as widely expected in December 2010.

Huge thanks to Nisan Aptal for tipping me off about this.

New 3D-effect box art had been created for Cougars, Inc. 3D and KM UK has been able to obtain a leaked copy of it, as you can see on the right.  A larger version is now in the Gallery.

Yes, this was a fake story for April Fool.

I’m calling it My Illustration Looking Fun game, or the M.I.L… Oh dear… That’s unfortunate

The game involves looking at this latest revision of the box art and comparing it with the previous one and [...]]]> Time for a little game based on a newly released version of the Cougars, Inc. box art (see right).

I’m calling it My Illustration Looking Fun game, or the M.I.L… Oh dear… That’s unfortunate

The game involves looking at this latest revision of the box art and comparing it with the previous one and noting the differences.  I’m sure we all played games like that as children.

Go to the Gallery and look at the images labelled Box Art 1 and the just added Box Art 3 (they are currently the 4th item on the second row and the 1st on the 3rd row, hold your mouse pointer over the thumbnails to see the labels).  How many differences can you spot?  Why do you think they made the changes?  Let us know by posting a comment.

Having already released copies of the Blu-ray and DVD box art we’ll have to wait and see if they will be updated to match.

The Answers

Having analysed the two images the differences are these:

• Kathryn and the stair rail are much larger.  They’ve scaled up that whole area making Kathryn almost as tall as Denise.  It certainly makes her more prominent than she was.  That may have been the primary goal behind the change.
• The new “It’s 10pm. Do you know where your mother is?” tag-line has been added.
• “James Belushi” has been changed to “Jim Belushi”.  That is how he is generally known.
• The picture of Jim Belushi has changed and moved slightly to the left.
• There are small changes to Denise’s head, neck line and her left shoulder (our right).  Nothing major just small shifts and size changes.

The Oscars is the biggest awards show there is, period. In recent years the BAFTAs has deliberately been moved to happen before the American Academy’s awards so as not be seen to be playing second fiddle to them.  But here at KM UK we get the last laugh.  They both publish their schedules far [...]]]> First!

The Oscars is the biggest awards show there is, period. In recent years the BAFTAs has deliberately been moved to happen before the American Academy’s awards so as not be seen to be playing second fiddle to them.  But here at KM UK we get the last laugh.  They both publish their schedules far in advance so we can nip in and hold our ceremony first!

Ladies and gentlemen, for your reading pleasure, may I present to you the Kathryn Morris UK Awards 2011.  We take a look back at the events of 2010 to recognise the highs and lows of the year, all from the perspective of a fan of the amazing actress and all round wonderful person Kathryn Morris.  Who or what will win the coveted ‘RichE’ (named after it’s creator, ME!) statues this year?

Those expecting a Ricky Gervais-style roasting of celebrities (did the Golden Globes organisers really expect anything different when they hired him?) will likely be disappointed but hopefully we’ll have a few laughs along the way.

Without further ado, the do…

Welcome to the 2nd Annual ‘RichE’ Awards brought to you by Kathryn Morris UK.

We’ll have none of the messing about from last year.  You should know the drill with these award ceremonies by now, you’ve watched enough of them.  Sit down.  Shut up.  Applaud as appropriate.  Laugh at the hosts weak attempts at humour.  Be quick about getting to the stage to accept your award.  Keep the acceptance speeches short (I’m looking at you Gwyneth!) and then get off quickly.  No dawdling about chatting to the presenter! 

Let us begin.

Best Actress	We start off again this year with the obvious one: Best Actress. And the winner is… Kathryn Morris. No surprise there. By the 2012 RichEs we hope to see more proof of the undoubted talent. However, if Kathryn wins again next year we may have to retire the category for good
Most Entertaining TV Show Award	Next up we have the award for The Most Entertaining TV Show.  And the winner is… Castle. I was a late-comer to the Castle ball but soon caught up. Bones, last year’s winner, is done with a lighter touch than most procedurals but Castle takes it a step further, but it’s not a comedy. There is so much that’s good about this show: the cases, the set-ups, Richard Castle’s quips, references to actor Nathan Fillion’s previous work (such as Firefly), the Beckett-Castle back-and-forth to name but a few.  Fillion is always worth watching and the new-to-me Stana Katic (Detective Kate Beckett) plays off him brilliantly, plus she’s very swoon-some Even the name ‘Richard Castle’ has a certain appeal   All of which makes the show a very worthy winner tonight.  Kathryn needs to do a guest spot on a future episode of Castle.   She should be a new actress, called Riley Lush, playing Nikki Heat in the film or TV adaptation of Richard Castle’s book.  It would make a fun contrast to Cold Case. See what I did there? Oh, never mind
Best Film Starring Kathryn Morris Award	Last time out this category was fit to bursting with movies released during 2009 in comparison to this year. For those keeping score: 2009 films, one; 2010 films, none. Well… no films were officially released.   So we have no option but to give the award to that film… the one that got released… sort of   I forget it’s name, and we probably shouldn’t mention it anyway, but congratulations to those responsible.
The Nurse Platt Award	We’ve decided to keep this award for 2011 but with a twist.  It was named after the Kathryn’s character in the movie Assassination Of A High School President and given for Best Actress Starring As A Healthcare (Un)Professional.This year it is recognising Services To Stockings, in honour of Nurse Platt’s devastating use of hosiery.And the award goes to… Kathryn Morris and her scene stealing fishnets in the film we can’t talk about (FWCTA)
Best Special Effect Award	Previously known as the Best Makeup Award this is the first of our awards for technical achievement.  This year’s winner had such an overall impact that went beyond just ‘makeup’ we had to expand the scope of the award. The past 12 months or so have been dominated by blue things. Avatar cost billions and billions of dollars and took almost no money at all. Why was it such a disaster? I’m glad you asked that. I’ll tell you: not enough brown, or at least the wrong sort of brown. Forget movie magic. Mix just enough blue (not too much) with just the right shade of brown, throw some blonde on top (and a tiny bit of grey at the feet) and you get photographic magic. Yes, this year’s winner of the Best Special Effect ‘RichE’ is makeup artist extraordinaire CarleneK for the amazing effect she helped achieve with Kathryn at the Environmental Media Association Awards.  Carlene’s Shine Bronzer product, in combination with that dress and those shoes, and Kathryn of course making it such a lovely shape.  WOW!   It had a truly special effect. See what I did there?  No?  Really?
Best Costume Award	To follow the tradition established last year we are going to keep this category open only to Kathryn’s public appearances from the year: all the premières, awards and charity events.  It was a bit of a lean year for Kathryn appearing in front of the paparazzi and most of the times that she was she was wearing relatively casual clothes, which is fine by me as she looks lovely dressed in just jeans and a “t”. This does mean, however, that we don’t have a large selection of outfits to choose from. But choose we must, so here are the 3 nominees vying for the 2011 Best Costume Award RichE: The People’s Choice Awards, Jack Goes Boating Première and the Environmental Media Association Awards. A tough choice, or at least it would be if it wasn’t for that little blue dress. It beats the big blue/black dress and the little black dress by some margin.  Proof that less can be more The award goes to… the Environmental Media Association Awards dress.
Word Costume Award	This has to be one of the most difficult categories to call this year as there have been no real stand-out bad outfits. As I said before Kathryn tends to have appeared in more casual-looking clothes at most of the events she attended this year.  I have to pick a winner though and I’m sure many of you will disagree with me on this one.The winner is (as you’ve already seen on the right) is the Women In Entertainment Breakfast shirt and trousers (that’s ‘pants’ to our American cousins ) combo.  Don’t get me wrong there is much to like about it but it doesn’t quite work for me.  Maybe if I saw the ensemble from all angles I’d have a change of heart (those pants are so very tight ).  It is not bad, just the least good of the set.  On the plus side the included smiles were wonderful to behold.
Surprise Appearance Award	I’ll just say it involves a certain FWCTA and the Internet and leave it at that
Least Surprising News Award	There can only be entry in this new category so let’s not beat around the bush (is that ever an option?) and declare the winner: The cancellation/non-renewal of Cold Case.  It had been on the cards for a couple of seasons so as upsetting as it was to realise that it was really happening, it was no great surprise.
Most Surprising News Award	Initially this only had one nominee, the corollary to the previous award. As expected as the cancellation/non-renewal of Cold Case was it was still quite shocking to have it confirmed. Three other events have put that one in the shade though: The announcement of Kathryn securing one of the most coveted roles there is: ‘wife of Brad Pitt.’ Personally I don’t see the appeal myself.  ‘Husband of Kathryn’ sounds far better Kathryn herself announcing on a national television chat that she is dating someone new. Finding out the most likely candidate for the position of “luckiest man alive” at the premieré of The Walking Dead TV show. And the winner is…. the Wendy Williams Show announcement about a new beau. It just came out of no where and blind sided us. See what I did there with the American sports movie reference? Kathryn will be starring in a sports movie (Moneyball), written by the same man.  No?  Again?  Come on!  Work with me here!
(Possible) Luckiest Man Alive Award	You can’t actually win a ‘possible’ award so there is no point even going any further with nominees etc.  If it had gone ahead as initially planned the winner would (possibly) have been Johnny Messner.  Sorry Johnny.  So close.  I’m gutted for you.  I’m sure you’ll get over it somehow.  As a last minute stand-in award we will give the runner-up prize of 2nd Luckiest Man Of 2010 Award to our youngest recipient yet: Master Kyle Gallner for a scene or two in the FWCTA.  Sorry Kyle.  You were so close.  B*****d!
Best Supporting Actor Award	Next, we get to inaugurate a new category for this year: Best Supporting Actor.  Could it be Danny Pino for his role in the final episodes of the final season of Cold Case? I know he’d be a popular choice with many of you.  Nope.  It’s not him.  Sorry ladies.  Could it be Kyle ‘The B*****d!’ Gallner from the FWCTA?  Young whipper snapper!  He’s already won a silver statuette this evening so it won’t be him.  No, this one goes to Johnny Messner for his work on screen, and (possibly) off, with Kathryn.  Congratulations mate!  I’m so happy for you (what’s the emoticon for gritted teeth?).
Best Supporting Actress	The film we can’t talk about has a veritable smorgasbord of potential Supporting Actresses to choose from: Denise Richards and my fellow Brit Rebecca Mader amongst them.  They’re good but they aren’t ‘the best.’The recipient of this award is well known to you all. She (it is a she ) is multi-talented.  She can sing and dance as well as act.  She’s a star of the stage and screen, and is due to be seen in several upcoming movies and TV shows.  She’s a great Twitter-ertoo.  She’s been a ‘supporting actress’ in the normal awards sense and she’s ‘the best’ in every sense making her an ideal winner.  Tracie Thoms is the KM UK Best Supporting Actress of 2011 award winner!  Woooh!  You go girl!  (I can’t carry that off can I?)
Greatest Smile Award	This has to be everybody’s favourite category.  How can you not love even the idea of the most beautiful woman there is smiling.  And we all know that smiling is Kathryn’s USP.  It just doesn’t get any better than that.  As per last year we will only be taking smiles seen at public events in the past 12 months into account.  These are our 4 nominees up for the 2011 ‘RichE’: It gets harder with every look but we have to stay firm and come to a conclusion.  In truth every single one is a winner, except for the last three, because this one is the best of the best: Gorgeous
Contribution To KM UK Award	This is such a difficult category to choose a winner for.  Many people, known and unknown have contributed to this site in 2010 in make it the success it is today.  Whether it be tip offs to some Kathryn-related news, comments, or images a lot of people take the time and effort to get involved.  I thank you all for that.  As much as I’d like to name an individual I’m not going to do that.  Instead this goes to all the great people that have helped me in so many different ways.  You are all great.  Yeah, yeah.  I chickened out No, I’ve changed my mind, I’m going to pick someone whom without this site would just be… err… UK: Kathryn

For the second year running Kathryn couldn’t/wouldn’t be here to accept her awards.  Is it something I said?  Fingers crossed for next year.  Perhaps by then we’ll be looking forward to her receiving some genuine awards.

None of the other recipients turned up either.  Do they need to be told to attend or do these Hollywood-types just ‘know’?  Do they just sense the opening of a golden envelope?

You’ve probably agreed with a few of my choices.  You’ve probably disagreed with a few too.  And you’re probably baffled by the rest.  Hopefully you laughed a few times.  Or maybe not   Feel free to suggest your own winners and losers in these or your own categories in the comments.

Same time, same place next year?

Now get orf my land!

The statuette graphic is courtesy of Iconshock @ IconsPedia.

I’ve put together a sort of advent calendar again in the Gallery.  This year, in honour of the ending of Cold Case I’ve chosen the theme “The Many Faces Of… Lilly Rush” (UK viewers may be able to think of a tune to go with that ).  Each image is [...]]]> It’s that time of year.

I’ve put together a sort of advent calendar again in the Gallery.  This year, in honour of the ending of Cold Case I’ve chosen the theme “The Many Faces Of… Lilly Rush” (UK viewers may be able to think of a tune to go with that ).  Each image is an HD screencap from CC season 7 with Lilly pulling a different facial expression.

The Advent Calendar is not properly interactive in the way I’d like, so that you’d click on a “door” to reveal an image. Instead, I’ve had to use a simpler system where by each day a new image will be revealed by me (assuming I remember and am able to). Clicking on the thumbnail will reveal a larger version of the image.  Clicking on an unrevealed image will only show you a bigger version of the thumbnail, or nothing.

You can find the advent calendar HERE, and I have added a link in the menu on the right to make it easier to get to.

The idea came up in a recent discussion which had drifted somewhat from its topic

At the time I referred to it as a “competition” but I think “challenge” would probably be more appropriate.  There won’t be any prizes beyond fame, glory and deep sense [...]]]> Anyone up for creating some Kathryn-related, Halloween-themed fan art?

The idea came up in a recent discussion which had drifted somewhat from its topic

At the time I referred to it as a “competition” but I think “challenge” would probably be more appropriate.  There won’t be any prizes beyond fame, glory and deep sense of pride you’ll get seeing your artistic endeavours displayed in the KM UK Gallery

My aim would be to post all suitable submissions at some point during the week prior to the witching day itself, 31st October.  Let us know you are interested in a comment below and email me directly or use the contact form to arrange sending me your work.

Gaelick, an Irish website by/for “lesbians, bisexual, gay and transgender ladies”, is running a poll about female cops on TV.  Kathryn is, of course amongst them.  They want to know who we think is the favourite.  I think we all know the correct answer to that [...]]]> Just a quick post for a bit of fun.

Gaelick, an Irish website by/for “lesbians, bisexual, gay and transgender ladies”, is running a poll about female cops on TV.  Kathryn is, of course amongst them.  They want to know who we think is the favourite.  I think we all know the correct answer to that

At time of the writing Lilly is winning.  Let’s keep it that way

Go HERE and vote.  NOW!

There is something about that website name…

To think that over 200 years ago the UK generously allowed you to go it alone, to find your own way in the world.   You’ve done all right for yourself since 

And as a little thank you, you gave the world Kathryn.  Took [...]]]> Happy 4th of July to our American cousins

To think that over 200 years ago the UK generously allowed you to go it alone, to find your own way in the world.   You’ve done all right for yourself since 

And as a little thank you, you gave the world Kathryn.  Took your time about it!  It was worth the wait though