Kathryn Morris UK

Cold Case Cast Catch-up – January 2014

tracie_thoms_001_430x180 It’s only January and we’re already catching up with the work of the other Cold Case cast members in KM UK’s regular segment I call the CCCC-up.

Lady fighting movie Raze; which stars Zoë Bell (stunt woman on the likes of Grind House), Rachel Nichols (Alias), Sherilyn Fenn (Boxing Helena), and Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller in CC); was released in some theatres and on VOD services (Amazon and iTunes for example) in the USA back on the 10th of January. It may be available in other territories as well. As far as I can tell the UK is not one of them. Amazon UK is showing a DVD release planned for mid-June 2014. Directed by Josh C. Waller (McCanick), and also starring Doug Jones (Pan’s Labyrinth) and Rosario Dawson (Sin City), is about a group of kidnapped women forced to fight each other to the death in order to save their families members. Even in that small collection of names there are lots of links. Rachel was in Resurrecting The Champ with Kathryn. She is also in McCanick by Josh and with Tracie. Rosario was in Rent with Tracie. It’s not what you know… As reported previously, depending on where you are in the world McCanick (Cory Monteith of Glee‘s last work) is either out already on DVD/VOD, or months away. Germany gets a DVD première February. Already on VOD in the USA, the DVD is due in May. When did these things get so complex?

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Cold Case Cast Catch-up – November 2013

john_finn_001_430x180 A CCCC-up is where I try and bring an update about the on-going careers of the stars of Cold Case that aren’t Kathryn. You may have noticed that I cover Kathryn’s work in greater detail in other posts on the site

Let’s start with the big man. The boss. Back in May John Finn (John Stillman in CC) filmed an Irish drama called An Bronntanas (previously mentioned here). The title translates as ‘the present’, as in gift. It was shot in Ireland and in Gaelic (the Irish language). The story revolves around the crew of a lifeboat working off the dangerous west coast of Ireland who find a dead woman and a huge stash of drugs on a boat. The show, if IMDb is to be believed, starts to air on the 28th of January next year. A date that means a lot to everyone on this site of course. Speaking of ‘believe’ John will be guest starring in at least one episode of an new upcoming drama series on the NBC network called Believe. The show is about a young girl with supernatural powers and an unlikely protector in the form of a death-row inmate broken out of prison especially for the job. The girl has supernatural powers which are growing stronger as she gets older. Her carers up till now have been a group known as the True Believers. The show’s creator, Alfonso Cuarón, has been in the media a lot recently because he produced/director/wrote a little movie starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney called Gravity. Despite that pedigree the programme was not picked up for the main fall/autumn season, but will air at some point in the new year. It has been a bit of rocky road to get here too, with original cast member Sienna Guillory (Luther) and showrunner/co-creator Mark Friedman leaving the production over the summer.

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Cold Case Cast Catch-up – September 2013

jeremy_ratchford_death_valley_001_430x180 We’ll start a little further afield than normal for this, the September 2013 edition of KM UK’s Cold Case Cast Catch-up. In each CCCC-up we take look at the on-going careers of the other key players from the long running show.

I’ve got good news and bad news (you probably know both already though). Which do you want to hear first? “Bad” you say? OK.

The AMC television network in the USA has cancelled The Killing. Based on a Danish drama series of the same name (but in Danish as Forbrydelsen) the show was Veena Sud’s project after Cold Case. Veena was a writer, producer and executive producer on CC and continued in those roles on The Killing. I know you will correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t believe that the US version was a direct remake in the way that some are. The American audience figures for the localised season one started strongly but viewers reacted badly to the way it ended. The second season largely redeemed itself but the show only just escaped cancellation. It sounds like season 3 was something of a disappointment. Lead actress Mireille Enos had small roles in many TV shows, Cold Case being one of the few she missed out, but The Killing really brought her to the fore. Enos went on to star in the Brad Pitt movie World War Z (she played his wife and only a select few have had that honour) and has several other film projects in the pipeline. Unless another US network or online streaming service like NetFlix steps up and saves The Killing it will be one of the more easily solvable cases.

Now on to the good news. Cold Case creator Meredith Stiehm’s next project was Homeland which she co-produced at various levels and also wrote several episodes. Homeland is about to start its 3rd season in the US of A this coming Sunday (29th September) with the UK debut the following week (6th October). But that is not the good news we’re reporting today. Meredith’s more recent show is The Bridge. This is another of the wave of Scandanavian dramas being shown and/or remade around the world. The Bridge is actually a literal cross-border project in its original form as it is a Swedish and Danish co-production set around a crime in both countries. A body is found lying on the boundary between the two countries, with the added twist the name suggests that that line is in the middle of a bridge joining the two nations. Cops from both sides have to co-operate to solve the case. The US remake takes the same idea but transposes it to the US-Mexico border. German actress Diane Kruger (National Treasure) takes a lead role. None of which is good news either. In the last couple of days, just before the penultimate episode of season one was due to air, the FX channel that carries The Bridge announced it had been renewed for a second run.

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Cold Case Cast Catch-up – July 2013

tracie_thoms_001_430x180 Since starting these regular CCCC-up updates it is clear that one person tends to dominate them: Tracie. The sheer number of differing projects she takes on, especially compared to her fellow Cold Case alumni, makes it unavoidable.

Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller in Cold Case), or as we’re going to call her this month, the Award Winning Tracie (AW… T ) has been a busy girl again. She started the July with a trip to Aruba in the Caribbean. It’s a tough life. She was there with actress and stunt performer Zoë Bell (Alias and Django Unchained) promote the Raze movie that seems to have been around for so long now without an actual release. Zoe will be known to some of you, even if you don’t realise it, as Xena: Warrior Princess. Zoë was the stunt double for Lucy Lawless. This means that Zoë worked with Kathryn during her two episodes as Najara. Zoë and AWT spent an evening on a beach in Aruba giving stunt lessons to festival attendees. A chance to get their own back at some film critics me thinks

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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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