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Cold Case Cast Catch-up – April 2019

tracie_thoms_001_430x180 The April showers have largely stayed away. Speaking of showers lets take our regular look at the news of the other members of the Cold Case cast in the April 2019 CCCC-up. Not a particularly busy month but some important updates.

She’s not been our headline act for a few months so we’ll give her top billing for April. Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller in CC) recently finished filming in the Fox TV multi-emergency service drama series 9-1-1. She will be in the season finale due to be broadcast on the 13th of May. Two weeks ago Tracie added another notch to her extensive and varied guest starring roles post. This latest outing is in and episode, ‘Book Club’, of NBCs brand new comedy show Abby’s, which is set in an illegal bar in the titular character’s backyard. Natalie Morales (Parks And Recreation) and Neil Finn (Scrubs) lead the sitcom.

Back in 2016 Tracie starred in a series called Sidetracked, we covered it on KM UK several times back then. The actress Adrienne Wilkinson (Xena: Warrior Princess) has for a number of years now being collecting interviews and posting them under the banner The Mouths Of Babes. Just added is a compilation of chats with members of the cast of Sidetracked. Watch it HERE.

Lastly, for Tracie, we have a full movie release available to everyone for free. OK, it’s only 9 minutes long but it is the whole thing! The short film Are We Good Parent? has been published on Vimeo by its maker, Bola Ogun. Tracie and Sean Maguire (The Class) struggle to deal with their teenage daughter’s (Gabrielle Skye Goodman, Speechless) sexuality, but not in the way you might think. You can view it HERE.

The Showtime network’s take on the late Roger Ailes will première on the 30th of June. Ailes was the controversial driving force and CEO of Fox News. He very much set the tone and output of the station. The series, The Loudest Voice, charts his is rise and fall with playing Russell Crowe (Gladiator) the man himself. Naomi Watts (Mulholland Drive), Seth McFarlane (The Orville), and Sienna Miller (American Sniper) also star. John Finn (John Stillman in CC) will play Jack Welch, the CEO of General Electric who appears to be very much in the Ailes mould. See a trailer for the show HERE.

Not sure when this first became apparent but it looks like John is climbing back into the director’s chair for a short film, having done so previously on a couple of episodes of Cold Case. Saved Rounds is about an Iraqi war veteran and a final mission they feel compelled to complete. Doc Farrow (Young Sheldon) is ‘Doc’, the vet in question. In an ‘it’s a small world’ moment, Doc Farrow stars in a movie project based on Roger Ailes’ life. John Lithgow, Margot Robbie, Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Alice Eve, Kate McKinnon, Connie Britton, Stephen Root, Allison Janney, Rob Delaney etc. etc. star in that film due for release at the end of the year. Saved Rounds is being targeted for a release this year, presumably on the festival circuit.

Cold Case Cast Catch-up – March 2019

john_finn_001_430x180 The year is marching on at quite a pace. So let’s follow suit and do the March 2019 Cold Case Cast Catch-up. In these regular posts we look at the on-going careers of the other members of the Cold Case cast.

Who should be start with today…? How about John Finn (John Stillman in CC). The picture above rather gave things away, didn’t it? Evidence that despite the breakneck pace of media these days, the gears can grind extremely slowly in Hollywood. Waaaaaaay back in September of 2016 we first reported that the film Finding Steve McQueen had begun filming. It was the culmination of over 5 years of work at that point. Here we are in early 2019 and the film finally had a release a couple of weeks ago in the US of A. The film is based on the true story of a group of thieves that plot to steal $30m of an alleged secret stash of illegal funds owned by the President Richard Nixon. Travis Fimmel (Vikings), William Fichtner (Mom), Forest Whitaker (The Last King Of Scotland) co-star. John plays Mark Felt, an Associate Director of the FBI who gave information anonymously about the Watergate scandal to the reports Woodward and Bernstein under the pseudonym ‘Deep Throat’. That secret wasn’t revealed for 30 years. The iconic actor Steve McQueen mention in the title is a reference to one of the thieves idolising him. The recent season of The Walking Dead, which saw John join the cast, recently came to an end, and it appears that John was only in the pilot of The Enemy Within.

Danny Pino (Scotty Valens in CC) will not be able to reprise his guest starring role in the Netflix sitcom One Day At A Time. It has just been announced that show will not be returning three seasons. Danny has been busy recently promoting the WGN America’s series Gone. It took a long time to get an airing at home but seems to have been well received so the cast have been out there pressing the flesh. We get a two-for-one with Gone as Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller in CC) also features quite prominently across the 12 episode season.

One of the big entertainment news story this past week involves Tracie. Apple has officially announced its subscription streaming service. It struck me as not really news as Apple has had the streaming service for years and back in June last year we first mentioned Tracie signing up for a new drama series for Apple. Many other shows have been know about for a long time too. The show that Tracie is in was, up until recently, known (without a ?) as Are You Sleeping. Now it has been renamed to Truth Be Told and is about Octavia Spencer’s (Hidden Figures) reporter investigating an old case through her podcast. See what Apple have done there? Lizzy Caplan (Cloverfield), Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad), Elizabeth Perkins (Weeds), Mekhi Phifer (ER) co-star.

To round things off, last week Tracie was kind enough to post a couple of photos from a little Cold Case reunion with Kathryn. See HERE. It looks like the two of them were involved in some publicity work for the Start TV network, which is broadcasting Cold Case twice a day at the moment.

Cold Case Cast Catch-up – February 2019

A relatively short one this time. Come on Tracie! Make three short films and take on five theatrical roles in March to make up for this slacking February 2019’s round-up of Cold Case cast members that aren’t Kathryn show business news starts….. NOW!

Yesterday (27th Feb) saw the drama series Gone finally received its première in the U.S. The WGN America network picked up the show for broadcast more than a year after our cousins Down Under got to watch it. We’ve always focussed on Danny Pino (Scotty Valens in CC) being one of the leads but we must not forget that Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller in CC) is also in ten of the 12 episodes. Chris Noth and Leven Rambin co-star in the show about an FBI team tracking down missing persons, some of them kidnapped.

Speaking of things that happened recently we come to John Finn (John Stillman in CC). I should have added a quick reminder last month of the pending launch of the new show The Enemy Within. Episode one hit the NBC airwaves on Monday (25th Feb). As is often the way with these things it hasn’t been clear whether John would make the final cut in the pilot or if it was a recurring role. He has not been mentioned by name in any press releases I’ve seen. A promo video released last week did have a brief glimpse of our man John. Also, the 2nd half of The Walking Dead season 9 started early this month. John joining the latest run of the show was amongst the many cast changes it has undergone. The loss of the main actor (Andrew Lincoln), who was in the very first shot of the pilot episode, has certainly had an impact on the ratings, but the show has been renewed for a 10th season already. Andrew is said to be returning to the TWD fold by starring in some film versions.

Cold Case Cast Catch-up – December 2018

A slight change to our normal monthly round-up this time. As well as a quick update on the latest news, this post will be the traditional end of year recap of the year’s events. Read on for the December 2018 edition of the KM UK CCCC-up, covering news on the main Cold Case cast other than Kathryn.

First up is Danny Pino (Scotty Valens in CC). Back at the end of June KM UK pretty much led the media world in reporting on Danny joining the Netflix sitcom One Day At A Time. We’ve recently seen photographic evidence of Danny’s involvement from the upcoming 3rd season, which débuts on the 8th of February (it’s an all-on-the-same-day drop of episodes). Danny is starring as the brother of the main character, played by Justina Machado (Six Feet Under, Cold Case episode ‘The Good Death’), in a recurring role. Looks like the beautiful India de Beaufort (Kröd Mändoon And The Flaming Sword Of Fire, I just wanted to write that!) is also joining the cast for a few episodes as a ‘love interest’. Not for Danny’s Tito, sadly for Danny. Cleverly, the lucky man Avery is going to be involved with is a character played by the man lucky enough to be India’s real-life husband. How did they think of that? Both Stephanie Beatriz and Melissa Fumero from Brooklyn Nine-Nine are also set to guest star, as well as Gloria Estefan.

In March we first reported (as opposed to reported first) that John Finn (John Stillman in CC) had filmed a role in a pilot for a new drama series called The Enemy Within. The show was picked up to series a couple of months later. One of the released publicity photos included John. It has now been announced that NBC has planned the show for a ‘mid-season’ launch in late February. Based on what happened to Reverie this year on the same network, maybe that should be taken with a pinch of salt. Of course this year the Winter Olympics is not intruding on the schedules. We don’t yet know of John will recur beyond the pilot, or even if his character has even remained in what will become the first episode.

Now on to the look back to CCCC-ups in 2018.

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Cold Case Cast Catch-up – November 2018

john_finn_001_430x180 Some of you got through Thanksgiving (I guess we all survived that). New traditions Black Friday and Cyber Monday have gone passed to. Can you deal with November’s CCCC-up? Let’s see what happening in the careers of the Cold Case cast (and occasionally crew) that aren’t Kathryn.

There is always a concern with these updates that things will be too quiet so there will be nothing to say. Luckily, with a number of people to talk about, and one of them being Tracie Thoms, there is always something. Nearly.

John Finn (John Stillman in CC) has featured a more in recent months than is usual. His joining the hit drama series The Walking Dead in a recurring role was much of it. Just this week the show ended the first half of season 9. It will rise from the dead (see what I did there?) with part two in February 2019.

The new news regarding John is a role in a new mini-series about the controversial (I think that’s the way we have to phrase these things) TV mogul Roger Ailes. He was the, lets say, man behind the, what we’ll call, TV channel Fox News. He had a clear vision for what the channel should do and how to do it. He succeeded. Ailes became headline news himself with allegations about his behaviour towards female staff members, including the on-screen talent such as Gretchen Carlson. Ailes died in 2017, a year after resigning because of the allegations. There is currently a movie in the works about Ailes starring John Lithgow, Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, and Margot Robbie. The project our John is involved in, however, is an 8-part series for the Showtime network called The Loudest Voice In Room. In this one Russell Crowe (Gladiator) is Ailes and co-star Naomi Watts (King Kong) is Carlson. John is listed as a ‘Jack Welch’. It is not clear who that is to me, but the most prominent person, and most likely candidate, is the former CEO of the massive General Electric corporation. He was at the top of the company for 20 years from 1981 so would definitely have a contemporary of Ailes. Seth McFarlane (Family Guy) and Sienna Miller (Layer Cake) are also set to co-star. Release is expected next year sometime.

You could normally create a magazine called ‘What Tracie Did This Month’ or ‘Thoms Monthly’ and rarely be stuck for content. This month’s edition would be lacking a little in original content so instead you’d run a lengthy feature about the movie of the musical Rent. It was the film’s 13th anniversary this month and Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller in CC) no doubt enjoyed the fans reminders of that. Apart from the though that it was thirteen years ago!

Stepping up to the plate to help out with some extra count is one of less regular guests and outlier in the whole Cold Case cast theme. According to a news site called SneakPeek, the Cold Case producer/writer Veena Sud is set to direct a remake of the Alfred Hitchcock movie Suspicion. Apparently Veena is also adapting the screenplay herself.