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We’re already 1/12th of the way through 2018, more if you consider the number of days. To mark the occasion here’s a quick round-up of updates in the world of the Cold Case cast that aren’t Kathryn.
These regular CCCC-up posts are about looking back at the recent careers of the CC cast. We often revisit items as more news comes in. To start with Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller in CC) we are going back over two years. In October 2015 Tracie filmed a comedy called The California No. All this time later the film finally received its world première earlier this month at the San Francisco. Things can move slowly in Hollywood. Maybe the film has found its time. A couple of days before that a trailer was released, you can watch it HERE on YouTube. Beware, it contains ‘adult themes’. The film stars Noah Segan (Star Wars: The Last Jedi), Ursula Mills (Peter Pan), with some slightly better known faces like Jordan Hinson (Eureka) and Breckin Meyer (Road Trip) alongside Tracie in the support cast.
Speaking of films starring Tracie and world premières another of her many projects, a short called Are We Good Parents?, will be getting its debut at the SXSW film festival. The film is to be shown three times across the whole event which runs from the 9th to the 18th of March. As it is a short film it will be packaged in a screening with others in the same category on the 10th, 12th and 15th. Sean Maguire (Once Upon A Time) co-stars in Bola Ogun’s film about two parents dealing with their teen-aged daughter going on her first date with a boy. A common enough issue for parents around the world. These two, however, had got the idea that their daughter was gay. See the SXSW website for details HERE.
Staying with Tracie: she was treading the boards again at the beginning of last week. In aid of the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) the play-on-words comedy titled Villian: DeBlanks came to LA at the Rockwell Theatre. As you can probably guess from that clever title the murder mystery play is improvised, with the actors having to use suggestions from the audience to shape the story.
To round-off Tracie new this month the Lifetime network show-about-a-show UnREAL returned for its third season on Monday (26th Feb), and the third and final of Love (the Netflix comedy-drama) starring Gillian Jacobs (Community) and Paul Rust (Comedy Bang! Bang!) will be out on the 9th of March. The trailer for that is HERE on YouTube.
John Finn (John Stillman in CC) next. Bent, a movie starring Karl Urban (Dredd), Sofia Vergara (Modern Family), and Andy Garcia (The Lost City) is due for release next week. We first mentioned it on this site last May. The framed-cop out for revenge thriller will receive a limited cinematic outing and be available via VOD services such as iTunes. Another ‘adult themes’ trailer can be seen on YouTube HERE.
Further, and even greater, evidence of the way things sometimes go in Hollywood is the film Give Til It Hurts. KM UK first and last mentioned this film waaay back in December 2014. 2014! At that time release was due in 2015. Now we have a date of 6th July 2018. Two brothers try to get back an inheritance they believe is theirs. Jeremy Ratchford (Nick Vera in CC) has the enigmatic role of ‘Elvis’, likely a small role.
Just in time for Xmas a teaser trailer and some promotional art work was released for Veena Sud‘s (writer/producer on CC) latest project Seven Seconds. We covered that in our round-up of round-ups to end 2017. Since then a full trailer was let loose (watch it HERE on YouTube). The 10 episode drama was made available in its entirety last week on Netflix. The show centres around the shooting of a black teenager by a white police officer. Regina King (American Crime) plays the boy’s mother dealing with the aftermath. The story is based on a Russian show. Who’d of thunk it? Russia influencing American media!
We’re already 1/12th of the way through 2018, more if you consider the number of days. To mark the occasion here’s a quick round-up of updates in the world of the Cold Case cast that aren’t Kathryn.
For a while now we’ve been talking about Danny Pino (Scotty Valens in CC) and his new project: the TV series Gone. Whilst nothing specific happened that we’re aware, the show seemed to be in limbo as we approached the end of 2017. It has apparently been broadcast in Australia but there had been little else from the US/German/French co-production. Things have definitely taken turn of the better in the past week though. The show has débuted in both Germany and France. If reports are anything to go by it did well in Germany, with a big audience share. Just after the New Year news broke that Danny’s other recent TV project, the Sons Of Anarchy spin-off, Mayans MC has been picked-up to series by the FX network. Expect to see it in late summer in the US.
Speaking of Gone, as we were at the beginning of the previous paragraph, turns out that our Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller in CC) has been holding out on us. As far as I’m know we had not been made aware of Tracie guest starring in Gone. Not only is this another reunion with Danny, along with a short film called Say Goodnight And Go they made late last year, it is a return to ‘the badge’ as Tracie is playing an FBI agent as does Danny. It also looks like Tracie has recently wrapped filming on the TV series UnREAL. After a uncertain period during 2017, when it didn’t return for season 3, UnREAL will be back in February. Plus, season 4 is already filmed and could be broadcast later this year. Returning to the emergency services theme, Tracie is due to guest star in tonight’s (31 Jan) episode of 9-1-1 on the Fox network in the US. This is a new series that started this year and focuses on all three branches of the first responders: firefighters, paramedics and the police. Plenty of scope for stories there, including cross-overs between the 3 sections. Angela Bassett (Strange Days), Peter Krause (Six Feet Under), and Connie Britton (Nashville) are amongst the stars. The show has already been renewed for a second season.
As this is the last Cold Case Cast Catch-up of 2017 I’ll do a bit of a round-up of the year as well as the latest news on the Cold Case squad.
Let’s start with Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller in CC) for the chivalrous reasons of ladies first and because describing her on going career so dominates our monthly updates. It would be easier to list all the things Tracie didn’t do in 2017! I’m bound to miss a few things but here is most of what we covered.
We started with a CD release of the soundtrack from the stage musical Falsettos, in which Tracie starred as Dr Charlotte in 2016. The show was also filmed for broadcast on TV during the year. TV viewers got to see Tracie in numerous guest roles. She did a season ending and new season starting two episode stint on the crime drama Criminal Minds. As the wife of one of the main characters going through… shall we call it a ‘major transition’, her Monica Walker played a significant role. Early in the year the Netflix comedy Love returned for a second season with Tracie back as a TV producer of a show-within-the-show. More on that later. Speaking of shows about shows, Tracie booked a recurring role on the Lifetime network drama series UnREAL. The show has had a bit of drama outside the sets as the planned season 3 for 2017 was delayed. Things looked shaky for the show but it was confirmed that not only will it return next year but season 4 is already filmed. Tracie donned the police uniform again (I know) for a one-off role in the Starz fantasy drama American Gods. Topping of her TV year was a guest role, as a Special Agent, on the short-lived drama Wisdom Of The Crowds.
On the film front The Drowning (aka Border Crossing) got a limited release mid-year. Horror film The Basement got a world première at Shriekfest in October. Not sure when that will get a wider release. Tracie also got involved in a various short films: Top Ramen, Pipe, and Say Goodnight And Go. That last one has been in the planning stages for a long time, crowd-funded some money early this year, and was finally filmed a few weeks ago. Our own Danny Pino co-stars.
Bringing us up to date Tracie let it be known that the 3rd, and final, season of Love will be released in March 2018. Just a week ago Tracie was back on stage performing a solo play she didn’t know at all. White Rabbit, Red Rabbit by Nassim Soleimanpour, a conscientious objector unable to leave Iran, involves a different actor each performance. They are given some basic instructions a few days before hand but are only given the script as they go on stage. Tracie called it a ‘wild ride’. Indeed.
I’ve mentioned him already so it only seems right to go to him next. Danny Pino (Scotty Valens in CC) co-starred in that short film Say Goodnight And Go alongside Tracie. Other than that it has been relatively quiet from Danny. Next year will likely be different as he had several project announced this year. Gone is a US/French/German co-produced drama series for NBC Universal about missing persons cases. The show has been made but it is unclear when it will be broadcast. Apparently the first episode has already been shown in Australia. Hopefully 2018 will be its year. The other big news was a spin-off series from hit Sons Of Anarchy called Mayans MC. The show has had a difficult production process so far with Danny signed-up for a new pilot episode after the first attempt was rejected. They are looking to make a series for 2018.
Jeremy Ratchford (Nick Vera in CC) made a few TV guest starring roles this year. In NCIS: New Orleans he was a dodgy cop and when Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders investigated a case in Russia he was ‘Boris’. There was a role in I Am That Man, that was shot in May but has yet to see the light of day, and a short film called Radio 88. Just last month we saw Jeremy at a table reading for a new film called Everybody Dies. I forgot to mention this in Tracie’s section above but she is also in it. Presumably we’ll hear more about that in 2018. A feature film that has recently been announced as receiving a general release is Small Time Crime. After a couple of film festival showings (US & UK) the movie will be out in January 2018. A trailer was released in November.
Last year there was much talk of John Finn (John Stillman in CC) appearing in the first episode of the new legal drama TV series Doubt. John’s role ended up being tiny and the show didn’t last long. Sticking with TV, John returned to the biggest show in the US, NCIS, reprising a role he played in a two-parter back in 2011. The character had been promoted and retired in the intervening period. This new story centred around his daughter. On the big screen the film Gifted was released. It was not a box-office smash, what with lacking superheroes, but was well regarded. John also has movies Bent, Finding Steve McQueen and Ad Astra in the works. We have a release date for the Brad Pitt sci-fi film Ad Astra: it’s January 2019!
Which brings us to everybody’s favourite: Thom Barry (Will Jeffries in CC). Things are always laid back with Thom. There are a couple of short films hanging over from 2016 we’ve not really heard anything of this year. We do know he filmed a short film with Tracie (something else I forgot to add above) in her very own home. It was called Career Suicide.
We don’t often mention her, and it has been a year since we last did, but there is news on Veena Sud (writer/producer on CC). Just a couple of weeks ago a brief teaser trailer and poster image were released for the Netflix drama series Seven Seconds. Veena is the creator of the show, although it is based on a Russian movie, and one of the writers. The show is based around the accidental death of a black teenage caused by a white police officer. Regina King (American Crime) stars as the child’s mother.
I think that just about covers 2017 and brings us up to date in the on-going careers of the Cold Case squad that aren’t Kathryn. Come back in 2018 for more.
The recent changing of the clocks may have left us confused as to what time of day it is but it is definitely the last day of October. That can only mean one thing: the latest Cold Case Cast Catch-up. Read on.
Most months we headline these posts with a picture of one of the cast of Cold Case to illustrate the first person we’re going to talk about. Just for a change I’ve gone with two pictures.
Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller in CC) spent the early part of the November posting about a new project she’s been involved in. By the sounds of it this has been a long (10+ years) development process which finally culminated in a few days of filming for something called Say Goodnight And Go. Tracie got to spend some timing strolling around in a lovely wedding dress, and (possibly) rolling around in a lot less with someone we all know very well…
Danny Pino (Scotty Valens in CC) spent the early part of the November posting about a new project he’s been involved in. By the sounds of it this has been a long (10+ years) development process which finally culminated in a few days of filming for something called Say Goodnight And Go. Danny got to spend some timing strolling around in a lovely wedding dress, and (possibly) rolling around in a lot less with someone we all know very well…
 OK, in Danny’s case he wasn’t in the wedding dress or posting about it. It is true that there was a small Cold Case reunion of sorts as Tracie and Danny look to have spent a while together in some sort of ‘romantic’ scenes. I’m tempted to say that Danny probably only has a small part, but I won’t It is not clear what their characters’ relationship is, and whether it relates directly to ‘the dress’. Plenty of material for the Cold Case fan fiction writers to work with there though.
If that wasn’t enough Cold Case-fan squealing, just a week or so later Tracie was at a table reading of a new horror comedy called Everybody Dies. This time our old friend Jeremy Ratchford (Nick Vera in CC) is co-starring.
Things have been quite quiet on the Danny front this year. February was one of the few times we’ve talked about him and it was about a TV project called Gone. Danny stars as an FBI agent with Leven Rambin (True Detective) and Chris Noth (Mr Big in Sex And The City) in the abduction-based story. The 12-part drama was produced jointly by NBC Universal in America, TF1 in France, and RTL in Germany. Despite those three countries being closely involved it appears that the first episode premièred on the Universal channel in Australia a couple of weeks ago. No news on other parts of the world.
Speaking of CC renuions: Tracie one again graced the screens of CBS the Sunday before last (the 19th) as a guest star in the sci-fi-ish drama series Wisdom Of The Crowd. This was the 8th episode of the season. Earlier this week it was announced that no more would made beyond the initial 13 episode order. If a show is going well it can expect more to be added to extend the run. Recent allegations about the behaviour of the lead actor Jeremy Piven (Entourage) has lead to the show effectively being cancelled. Not so great ratings suggest a renewal for a 2nd run at a later date is unlikely.
The recent changing of the clocks may have left us confused as to what time of day it is but it is definitely the last day of October. That can only mean one thing: the latest Cold Case Cast Catch-up. Read on.
Danny Pino (Scotty Valens in CC) is returning to the works of writer/producer Kurt Sutter. Before taking the role we know Danny for best he had a five episode run in the gritty drama series The Shield. Kurt, who wrote many episodes of The Shield and produced even more, went on to create the motorcycle gang-based show Sons Of Anarchy. It has been three years since SOA, starring Charlie Hunnam (King Arthur: Legend of the Sword) and Katey Sagal (Married With Children), ended but now plans are afoot, afoot I tells ya, for a spin-off series called Mayans MC. A pilot was shot last year but they are re-shooting it with significant changes to the cast and story. Danny is said to have taken a lead role in this new version for the FX network which takes place within the same universe but some time after the end of SOA. James Olmos (Battlestar Galactica) is co-starring.
With that out the way we can get to the usual meat in these monthly articles: the continuing efforts of Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller in CC) to put dozens of other performers out of work
I think I missed this particular news from very late in September, but it is not as though we’re often short of things to say about Tracie. Last December’s round-up of CCCC-up round-ups was the last time we mentioned the movie The Basement, a horror film about a serial torturer/killer and kidnapped musician. Mischa Barton (Notting Hill) stars as the wife of the missing tune-smith. A trailer was released a month ago and the news broke that the film would receive a world première at the Shriekfest Film Festival in Hollywood in early October.
Speaking of horror films, it seems to be the season, a whole two years ago I posted about a new short film called No Touching starring Zoë Bell (Raze). They were running a Kickstarter campaign to raise (raze?) money for the project. Exactly what happened after that I’m not sure but just a few days ago the 10 minute long film was published on YouTube HERE. Tracie has a small role alongside lead Zoë, with whom she has worked in several films.
Lifetime network’s series UnReal gives its fans a bit of hard time. The third season renewal was swift but the actual production and release were delayed. In June we covered the news of a ‘early 2018’ debut for the next run with Tracie receiving a recurring role. Now it has been narrowed down to late February 2018. On top of that good news for the die hards is evidence that the fourth season is already being filmed. Tracie posted a photo on social media last night of herself on the set of UnReal for the filming of season 4. No doubt that will be broadcast sometime in the mid-2020s
A further social media posting by Tracie last week strongly suggests that she will be in an upcoming episode of the CBS drama Wisdom Of The Crowd. Jeremy Piven (Mr Selfridge) stars in the new show about a tech pioneer who has developed a computer tool to solve murders. Sounds a bit like Person Of Interest crossed with Minority Report. More news on Tracie’s guest appearance at a later date.
In July the stage musical Falsettos, which Tracie starred in earlier this year, was recorded for showing in cinemas across the country. Last Friday the performance was broadcast on the PBS network.
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