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Cold Case Cast Catch-up – December 2020

Today (at time of posting) is the last day of 2020 and I think it is fair to say “good riddance”. However, before we finally wish a less-than-fond farewell to the year we get to do a traditional annual look-back round-up of the Cold Case Catch-up posts from the past 11 months.

First up we need to cover any updates on the on-going careers of the non-Kathryn Cold Case cast from December.

Let us start with Danny Pino (Scotty Valens in CC) and his film work. In August we talked about the film Fatale, starring Michael Ealy (The Perfect Guy) and Hilary Swank (Million Dollar Baby). The thriller involves Ealy as a man caught up in a situation with a vengeful police office (Swank) who isn’t going to let things go, Fatal Attraction-style. Danny plays the politician ex-husband of the cop who she is also making suffer. There’s lot of opposite stuff going on here. In The Perfect Guy, Ealy was the stalker. Hillary is not often cast in the ‘bad guy’ role. Danny is not the cop (he did play a politician in the wonderful but shortlived BrainDead). The film received a limited theatrical release in North America on December the 18th, and is expected to go to video on demand services in January. A trailer for the movie can be seen on YouTube HERE.

Nothing to add for Tracie Thoms (Kat Millar on CC) on the TV/movie front for December. Tracie has been active in online videos though. We have her in an Zoom-based spelling bee early in the month on Facebook HERE and a campaign to encourage everyone (eligible) to vote in the upcoming Georgia state Senate run-off election. A variety of Broadway stars have gathered (virtually) to perform the song ‘Georgia On My Mind’ for the group Fair Fight Action. Included in the large number of singers involved are Lin-Manuel Miranda, Vanessa Williams, Bellamy Young, Josh Gad, Billy Porter, and Rosie Perez. You can watch a version of the released single on YouTube HERE.

Several years ago One Tree Hill stars James Lafferty and Stephen Colletti set about putting together a comedy drama about two ex-stars of a once hit show trying to find their way back to the same levels of same fame. This show, Everyone Is Doing Great, has been in the works for a while. The two stars wrote and directed the series, they also spent a long time trying to get funding to make the show. In 2018 and 2019 some element (possibly a pilot) was shown at a few festivals. A few weeks ago it was announced that the streaming service Hulu had picked up the series and would make it available from the 13th of January 2021. The reason we’re mentioning Everyone Is Doing Great here in the CCCC-up is because Jeremy Ratchford (Nick Vera in CC) is guest starring in an episode, number 6 if the details are correct. The fact that his character shares a last name with one of the main characters suggests a family relationship (father?) but I don’t have more than that. Hulu has released a trailer for the show on YouTube HERE.

And now for the look back at 2020 CCCC-ups.

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Minority Report – Monday on BBC1

The BBC has decided, after more than 5 years, to put Minority Report on TV again.

As a way to end the extended holiday weekend, the Tom Cruise-led sci-fi action film is being shown again at 11pm on Monday (28th December 2020) in England. Those in Wales have to wait until 11:30pm and Scotland another 15 minutes on top of that. Looks like Northern Ireland aren’t getting a broadcast this time.

Rules in place in the UK at the moment require that you watch the film or Tom will shout and threaten to fire you if he sees you not doing so again. You have been warned!

KM UK already has a comprehensive set of HD screencaps and a large sized promotional photograph seen above above in the Gallery.

Full details can be found on the BBC website here.

KM UK Xmas Message 2020

I thought we all deserved to end the year with a nice image so I chose the one above to headline this KM UK Xmas Message for 2020. As a screencap from the Cold Case episode Discretion (S02E10), it is not festive but hopefully brings a smile to your face too.

Here is KM UK’s very quick look back at 2020.

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Cold Case S03E10 – Frank’s Best Full HD Screencaps

It’s the final one of our look-back-15-years posts of 2020, as this was the last episode of Cold Case broadcast in 2005. They saved the (Frank’s) Best ’til last

Superficially, the case is about the death of a deli owner just a handful of years previously. Of course, as it is nearly Xmas there is a side story about a baby. Vera and Jeffries find a new born left outside the police station. The squad leap into action and let Nick, the big softy, look after it.

As well as the expected 185 (Full HD, 1080p) new screencaps, which are… frankly the best, in the Gallery there is also a new hi-res promo photo (see above) and an upgrade to a previous one (number 3).

Cold Case Cast Catch-up – November 2020

Some of you will have spotted the obvious mistake I made in the Cold Case Cast Catch-up for October. There was no CCCC-up for October. My senility and workload got the better of me and I just plain forgot. To be honest, I don’t think there was much to talk about.

With that dealt with, let’s take a look at the news about the on-going careers of the non-Kathryn Cold Case cast from the past 2 months in the November 2020 CCCC-up.

The main US network TV shows have started returning to the schedules in the past few weeks. Most face shortened production runs, with fewer episodes planned due to you-know-what. Maybe if things improve they can add more. In general the entertainment industry, realising the current situation could be around for a while yet, have been trying to get back to some sort of normal, within limitations to minimise the risks to all involved.

We so rarely get to talk about Jeremy Ratchford (Nick Vera in CC) that we have to give him top billing when ever we do. Looks like this might be old news but it is not something I’d noticed before. I try to keep track but it is possible this got past me. Back in March Jeremy guest starred in an episode of an Canadian cop show called Hudson & Rex. A new one on me. The show is variant on the cop + dog format, as seen in the 1989 Jim Belushi film K-9, and is apparently based on a German show.

One things regulars to these round-ups will know is that it takes more than a global pandemic to stop Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller in CC) working. Mid-November saw Tracie guest star in the second episode of the latest season of NCIS: Los Angeles. She’s in uniform again, and appeared to be a military prosecutor (a JAG?) in a case about a war crime. I’ve seen it mentioned that this episode continues a case from the end of the previous season of the show. This being the trial portion of it. Wasn’t that what they could have done with NCIS and the show JAG when that was still on? Tracie appeared in some publicity material for the episode.

Back October, Amazon Prime and Blumhouse Productions teamed up to release a series of original feature films on the online retailer’s streaming service. Occasional regular on the CCCC-ups, Veena Sud (writer/producer on CC) directed and co-wrote one these films. It is called The Lie. You may remember that we first posted about this film in the April of 2018 CCCC-up. The film stars Marielle Enos and Peter Saarsgard, both of whom lead Veena’s post-CC smash TV series The Killing. As is generally the case with lies, they are eventually uncovered.