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Cold Case Cast Catch-up – December 2012

danny_pino_002_430x180 Everyone loves a bit more Pino.

Our final round-up of news about Cold Case cast members that aren’t Kathryn for 2012.

The long-running TV show Law & Order: Special Victims Unit has had its current season extended by 2 episodes, bringing it to a total of 24. That’s either a good show of support or a chance for the writers to give it a proper ending. Which theory you subscribe to depends on your point of view. Our understanding is that despite weak “lead ins” (i.e. the show on before SVU has a low audience count to carry over into SVU) the cop drama continues to do OK. It is gradually fading but it is hardly surprising as the show is currently in its 14th year. Danny Pino (Scotty Valens in Cold Case) continues as Detective Amero in SVU. There are no signs of Danny taking on other film or television roles at the moment.

Last month’s CCCC-up included a reference to John Finn‘s guest-starring role in the hit drama series Homeland. At the time the episode was just a few days away from broadcast in the UK, having been shown in the US just a few days before that report. The part was not particularly large and the character of Rex Henning has not re-appeared in the episodes since. John’s next feature film The Lifeguard by Cold Case writer/producer Liz Garcia is due to début at Sundance 2013. The film festival runs from January 17th to the 27th.

We seem to have been talking about Thom Barry‘s role in the new Texas Chainsaw 3D movie for a very long time. It was first reported here back in July 2011. Back then the planned release date was October. In early summer it was pushed back to January 2013, probably to avoid clashing with the many big releases in the autumn. Now we are in the home straight, with just a few weeks to go for much of the world.

A couple of Thom’s co-stars in Texas Chainsaw 3D have caught our eye: Tania Raymonde (Lost) and Richard Riehle (Office Space). Tania guest starred on Cold Case for eight episodes in the latter half of season 6 as a PPD lab tech that Scotty became involved with. Richard (the hardest working man in Hollywood) will be seen very soon in the film 2 Br/1 Ba, in which Kathryn has a small but pivotal role.

If you have any news about any of the Cold Case main cast then please let us know.

Cold Case Cast Catch-up – November 2012

john_finn_001_430x180 The boss is back.

Another update on the careers of the members of the Cold Cast cast that aren’t Kathryn.

John Finn (Lt. Stillman in Cold Case) was a guest star in the most recently broadcast episode (number 7 of season 2) of the hit US drama series Homeland. At the moment we can’t comment on the exact nature of John’s role because it won’t be broadcast in the UK until Sunday (18th November 2012). Cold Case creator Meredith Stiehm wrote this one, which may help explain John’s appearance. As in many walks of life, in Hollywood it’s who you know. Let’s hope that that extends to Kathryn sometime soon. John’s other recent project, Cold Case writer/producer Liz Garcia‘s movie The Lifeguard starring Kristen Bell, is in post-production and due for release next year. Stretching the scope of the CCCC-up to beyond breaking-point KM UK offers congratulations to Kristen Bell (she was the star of our first April Fool, that’s our excuse and we’re sticking to it ) on her recently announced pregnancy.

Speaking, as we were, of Meredith Stiehm and again stepping outside of the normal CCCC-up bounds, Meredith’s adaptation of the Scandinavian drama series The Bridge continues apace. Ted Levine (Monk) and Matthew Lillard (Scooby-Doo) have joined Diane Kruger (Inglorious Basterds) in the cast. It is currently described on IMDb as a TV movie, so that probably means a feature length pilot has been ordered. If it goes well then a series could be commissioned.

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Cold Case Cast Catch-up – September 2012

tracie_thoms_looper_001_430x180 It’s September 2012’s round-up of news regarding the other cast-members of Cold Case.

Kicking off with the ever loopy, I mean lovely, Tracie Thoms. Well, I say “loopy” because her latest film role is due to hit the big screens at the end of this month across most of the world. The film is called Looper and stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Inception and 3rd Rock From The Sun), Bruce Willis (Die Hard) and Emily Blunt (The Devil Wears Prada, which Tracie had small role in). Beyond what we’ve seen in the photo above, other similar ones and a handful of frames in a trailer, the extent of Tracie’s role as Beatrix is not known. Looper received it’s world première at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this month. Still no news on the release date for the kidnapped-women-forced-to-fight-each-other movie Raze that Tracie made earlier this year. And no doubt Tracie has been involved in a dozen other events and projects since our last update. She’s a very busy lady!

In the previous CCCC-up we extended the scope a little to include Veena Sud and Liz Garcia. Both women had significant behind-the-cameras positions on Cold Case and there was news of major projects for both them. Well, this time we can mention Liz’s new film The Lifeguard again as, according to IMDb, John Finn has joined the cast as “Big Jason”. Make of that what you will. It’s set for release sometime next year and stars Kristen Bell of Veronica Mars fame.

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Cold Case Cast Catch-up – August 2012 – Update

jeremy_ratchford_perception_001_430x180 Another quick round-up of what is going on in the careers of the non-Kathryn members of the Cold Case cast since our last one of these in May.

Let’s start with Jeremy Ratchford (aka Nick Vera in Cold Case) for a change. In that last update we noted that Mr Ratchford had made a very brief appearance in a promo video for the new TNT show Perception, starring Rachael Leigh Cook (Josie And The Pussycats and She’s All That) and Eric McCormack (Will & Grace). At the time it was not clear whether Jeremy would be a show regular or a one-off guest star. It could have gone either way. The first episode involved FBI Agent Kate Moretti (Rachael) coming back to the city she spent much of her life in and she picked up a case of a certain Detective Hammond’s, Jeremy in a very Vera-like role. The show could easily have been about Kate and Daniel (Eric) doing the same thing with Hammond on a regular basis but, as far as I am aware, it hasn’t happened again. Det. Hammond has not reappeared in any episodes since. Though having established a character like that in the show’s “universe” it could happen. As an aside, the most recent episode of Perception used the building exterior Cold Case used for the Philadelphia Police Department as a Chicago hospital. It was once a bank in an episode of Castle. I presume that is is actually in LA somewhere.

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Cold Case Cast Catch-up – May 2012

Another quick round-up of what is going on in the careers of the non-Kathryn members of the Cold Case cast.

Quite a lot has happened since our last update in February.

As covered previously Law & Order: SVU has been renewed for a 14th season so Danny Pino (Scotty Valens on Cold Case) will be returning as Detective Nick Amaro for his second season. The final episode of Danny’s first season aired last night (23rd May 2012) in America. I won’t be doing any further screencaps of Danny in L&O:SVU as our friends at Danny Pino Online are doing a great job of covering it.

In the last of these type of updates I mentioned that the multi-talented Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller on Cold Case) was due to star in a big film due out in September. A trailer has been released for that film, Looper, and it actually has Tracie in it. It is a very brief of as she, a waitress in a diner, gives Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Inception) an “oh la la”. Whether Tracie’s role extends much beyond that is not known at this stage. She is reasonably high up the cast list on IMDb and her character has a name: Beatrix. Both of which are a step up from Safe House for her. You can see a copy of the trailer HERE on YouTube. Tracie appears at the 36 second mark.

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