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Cold Case Cast Catch-up – July 2014

danny_pino_001_430x180Looking back at last month’s Cold Case Cast Catch-up (aka CCCC-up), as I do to refresh my memory of upcoming things and check for updates, I spotted a lot of (now corrected) typos.  Not my best work.  This month I’ll try to make fewer mistooks as we look at the on-going careers of the other stars of Cold Case  :-)

The one bit of Danny Pino (Scotty Valens on CC) news last time out was his nomination in the 2014 Imagen Awards, which celebrate the portrayal of Latino culture in the media.  Danny is up for his role on the long-running TV series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.  The show is due to start its 16th season, Danny’s 4th, in the autumn.  The Imagen awards are taking place on Friday (August 1st).  Good luck to all those nominated, especially Danny.

It looks like the indie movie Death Valley, which sees Jeremy Ratchford (Nick Vera on CC) don a cop uniform, was screened for a select few people earlier this month.  So far there is no actual release date listed for the film.  Hopefully the screening will boost the film’s profile and help with distribution etc.

At the time of writing there has been no sign of Thom Barry (Will Jeffries on CC) making his debut on the TNT drama series Perception.  We reported last month that Thom had scored a recurring role as a senior FBI field office boss.  Perception stars Will & Grace‘s Eric McCormack as neuropsychiatrist with schizophrenia Daniel Pierce who assists the FBI with difficult cases through his ex-student, and now FBI Special Agent, Katie Moretti played by Rachael Leigh Cook (Josie & The Pussycats).  This week’s episode was number seven of the season’s 12 so there are still a few to go.  Maybe next week.

The complicated history of the Irish drama An Bronntanas which stars John Finn (John Stillman in CC) is becoming a little clearer.  Made last year as a five part drama series it was due to be shown early in 2014.  That time came and went.  A couple of weeks ago (as reported previously) a 2 hour film edit was screened on the closing night of the Galway Film Fleadh (festival).  Apparently it went down a storm (pun very much intended).  Now it is looking like the 5 episode version will be broadcast over the Xmas period on the TG4 Irish TV network that part-funded the production.

I doubt those of you interested need to be reminded by me but writer and producer on CC Veena Sud‘s follow-up show The Killing will start the end on Friday.  The drama, which was on the AMC network for its first three seasons, was picked up by the Netflix streaming service for one more short six episode run.  After a very successful first season the show has been a mixed bag for viewers who, I’m sure, hope it goes out on a high.  Of course if it is a success for Netflix (they never release audience figures) who knows if it really will be the last that will be seen of it.  On a side note: just last week the lead actress Mireille Enos (World War Z) gave birth to her second child with husband Alan Ruck (Spin City).  Congratulations to them both.

It almost feels wrong to do so but I am going get through a CCCC-up without mentioning Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller on CC).  Damn!  So close!  :-)

Cold Case Cast Catch-up – June 2014

thom_barry_001_430x180Welcome to the latest of KM UK’s highly acclaimed (well I think it’s great, I exclaimed, whilst acclaiming it :-) ) look at the burgeoning careers of those Cold Case cast members that aren’t Kathryn.  Yes, even I noticed a few others on screen with her :-)  Or, as I called it the Cold Case Cast Catch-up or CCCC-up.  This month it’s June so this is the June edition.  Clever huh?

One of the least regular appearers here is Thom Barry (Will Jeffries on CC).  More’s the pity as we all like him.  As busy as I am sure he is he doesn’t often trouble the headline writers.  However, this month we get to report on Thom’s return to the small screen as he is due to start a recurring role on the TV drama series Perception.  Eric McCormack (Will & Grace) stars as Dr. Daniel Pierce a lecturing neuropsychiatrist with enough of his own mental health issues to fill many a peer-reviewed paper.  Rachael Leigh Cook (She’s All That) is the no-nonsense FBI Agent.  He’s Pierce.  She’s an exception…al detective.  Together they are… Perception.  Or something like that.  Anyway, Thom Barry will be starring in the TNT network series as the Chicago (where the show is set) FBI office boss.  Two episodes of the 3rd season run have aired so far with no sign of Thom.  Still 8 more to go.

Jeremy Ratchford (Nick Vera in CC) is another of our less commonly talked about CC cast members in this monthly feature.  After a special première screening to close out the LA Film Festival last week, the new film Jersey Boys went on general release in the US, Canada, and the UK last Friday (20th June).  Jeremy is credited as ‘police officer’ so probably doesn’t have a particularly large role in this new Clint Eastwood-directed telling of The Four Seasons formation story.  He’s not playing one of the singers (those roles have largely gone to less well known but experienced stage performers) but the biggest name in the cast has to be Christopher Walken as Angelo “Gyp” DeCarlo.  Gyp was a ‘wise guy’ that helped the group lead by Frankie Valli in the time before they became a hit in the 70s.  There’s at least one other Cold Case alumni in the cast. Kathrine Narducci who is Frankie’s mother in Jersey Boys was in CC episode The War At Home.  Like a few of the other actors Katherine was in The Sorpranos.

Finally there is signs of life from the Irish drama An Bronntanas which stars John Finn (John Stillman in CC).  Filmed last year,  An Bronntanas (“The Gift”) was due to shown as a 5 part drama series early this year.  Then it looked like it had been push back to the end of the year.  The latest news is that it will be screened as a 2 hour film at the closing night of the Galway Film Fleadh in mid-July.  Fleadh, pronounced “flar”, means festival.  The drama is about a lifeboat crew that discover a huge haul of drugs and a dead body on a boat found at sea, and moral dilemmas it causes.   Presumably this means it be released in that form at some point afterwards, whether that will be on the Irish TG4 TV channel or in cinemas is not clear.

Danny Pino (Scotty Valens on CC) next.  Not much to say about Danny at the moment.  We covered the return of L&O:SVO for a 16th season last month.  It is for his role as Detective Nick Amaro on the show that Danny has been nominated for an Imagen Award in the Best Actor/Television category.  The Imagen Foundation that created the award promotes the Latino culture within the media.  An amusing element in the other nominations that the show Devious Maids is almost guaranteed to win the Best Actress/Television category.  All but one of the 6 named ladies is from that show!  The Imagen Awards ceremony will take place on the 1st of August.

And finally Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller on CC) but very much not leastly.  We certainly say she seldom features here :-)  She is currently in Montreal with a travelling production of the For The Record: Tarantino show of music from Quentin’s films, we’ve mentioned previously.  Last weekend Tracie was doing a 24 Hour Play (mentioned here last month).  Starting ‘off Broadway’, which means smaller theatres near the famous area of NY, Tracie is taking a lead role in a new play called Lost Lake by awarding playwrite David Auburn.  John Hawkes (The Sessions) will co-star.  Veronica (Tracie) has takes her kids on a lake side holiday.  Hawkes is the troubled owner of the establishment.  Hilarity no doubt ensues… or maybe not.

Cold Case Cast Catch-up – February 2014

jeremy_ratchford_001_430x180Phew, February’s short! It only feels like last month that we posted the January edition of the KM UK ‘CCCC-up’, where we bring you up to date with what’s going on in the careers of the Cold Case cast members that aren’t Kathryn.  We’ll start with award winners and end on a mystery…

Jeremy Ratchford (Nick Vera on CC).  Jeremy.  Jezza.  The J-Man.  JR.  J.  OK, I’ll stop.  I’ve been mentioning the film Lost On Purpose; which stars Jeremy, Jane Kaczmarek (Malcolm In The Middle)  C Thomas Howell (The Outsiders) and 2012 Oscar winner Octavia Spencer (The Help); for what feels like forever.  It has been available to watch via the Vimeo website for a few months now but continues to be screened as festivals.  In just the last couple of days the movie won a directors award for the writer/directors Eshom & Ian Nelms at the New Hollywood Online Film Festival NUHO Awards.  Well done to them.  Lost On Purpose is about a woman (Kaczmarek) struggling to run a family owned dairy farm, the farm hands she employs, and facing increased competition from larger co-ops.  Jeremy appears to have worked on a short film recently.  A listing for a project called A Slow Coming Dark is now on IMDb and is described thus: “Three ex-cons join forces to kidnap the son of a very wealthy man for a healthy ransom, but there is one major problem in the equation.”  The release date is down as “Los Angeles, 20th March 2014”, which could equate to a film festival but I’ve yet to narrow it down any further.  Jeremy’s role is just named “T.J.”

There is still no word on the Irish TV show An Bronntanas which stars John Finn (John Stillman on CC).  The five part drama, centred on the crew of a lifeboat and what they discover on a boat they go to rescue, was due to start being broadcast on the Irish TG4 station back in January.  So far I’ve no evidence of it happening.  It’s like it got lost out at sea.  If you know different please let me know.

We can’t complete a CCCC-up without including Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller on CC).  If it wasn’t for Tracie these posts would be quarterly :-)  The short film A Different Tree, which stars Tracie, was broadcast on the HBO channel in the US from earlier this month.  I believe that it has been shown several times already, with more screenings to come in March.  The 15 minute long feature about an 8 year old girl (Morgan Ashley) and her absent father (Jason E Kelly) is also available on the HBO Go streaming service until the end of March.  Tracie plays Pearl’s (Morgan) mother Jada.  You might recognise Jason E Kelly from a small role in the Cold Case episode Mind Games (S06E18).  He also worked alongside Jeremy Ratchford in the film The New Republic, which came out in late 2012.  In fact you can see them both together in the trailer on YouTube here.  For a change a couple of weeks ago Tracie wasn’t starring in a film, she was hosting one!  Her own house had been taken over for some filming on a project called 2 Black Dudes.  But Tracie being Tracie meant that the helping out on set didn’t last and she was off to do some work on a film called The Concessionaires Must Die.  Details can be found on the official website.  And what of the mysterious ending?  A couple of days ago Tracie Tweeted that she was back in Philadelphia, the setting of and scene of some exterior filming on Cold Case.  She wouldn’t say what she was doing in Philly but she described it as a “eye-opening experience!”  Curiouser and curiouser.

Cold Case Cast Catch-up – December 2013

tracie_thoms_001_430x180Welcome 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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Cold Case Cast Catch-up – October 2013

tracie_thoms_001_430x180This CCCC-up update (where KM UK reports on the careers of the other key players from the long running show) was looking like it could be shorter than most but Tracie has come through for us yet again!  Phew!

The big news for Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller in CC) is that she will be starring in a big screen version of the musical Annie for big studio Sony Pictures.  Lots of other big names are involved with a cast that includes Jamie Foxx (Django Unchained), Cameron Diaz (There’s Something About Mary), Bobby Cannavale (Boardwalk Empire), Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Lost), and Rose Byrne (Damages).  Husband and wife team Will and Jada Smith are producing it through their own Overbrook Entertainment along with Mr Beyonce, Jay-Z, who is unsurprisingly involved with the music too.  Dorian Missic (Southland) and Tracie will be playing Annie’s fake parents.  Annie herself will be the wonderfully named Quvenzhané Wallis who shot to fame in Beasts Of The Southern Wild and can currently be seen in 12 Years A Slave.  Last week the women fighting for their lives film Raze, which stars Tracie, Zoe Bell (Hollywood stuntwoman extraordinaire), Rachel Nichols (G.I. Joe: Rise Of The Cobra), and Sherilyn Fenn (Twin Peaks) finally got a première showing in LA at the SpectreFest event.  On a slightly different tack the cult favourite TV show Wonderfalls from 2004 gets a proper full series DVD release in the UK today, years after America.  It’s HERE on Amazon UK (other DVD retailers are available).  It was one of Tracie’s earliest roles.

A trailer has been released for the movie Death Valley, starring Jeremy Ratchford (Nick Vera in CC).  You can see the video, which is not for the squeamish or sensitive, on the official website HERE.  Following on from last week’s theme of our CC cast not appearing in trailers for films that they are in, Jeremy is not even glimpsed in any of the 97 seconds the video runs for.  The trailer reveals Death Valley to be a stark warning against the perils of drinking and driving.  Take an old car and liquor into the desert with your friends for a good time and it is just inevitable that a scantily-clad woman will come running at you brandishing a gun and ending up dead.  That’s what happens right?  It’s what all the public information films and parents warn you about!  Remember kids: don’t drink and drive!  The cast list on the official site has Jeremy’s character named as Lucas Kern.  I’m assuming that is a small typo.  As I’ve previously reported the IMDb version Lucas Shore was likely wrong as a production still of Jeremy in a patrolman’s uniform included a name badge with “Kerns” on it.  At the time of writing is no sign yet of a release date for Death Valley, which also stars Katrina Law (Spartacus), Lochlyn Munro (Scary Movie), Victoria Pratt (Mutant X), Nick Tarabay (Spartacus) and Kelly Hu (guest star in nearly every TV show ever!).

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