(Cops and Monsters poster by Neil Fraser Graphics)

Currently in development with Dicentium Films in Australia, we are bringing “Cops and Monsters” to the audio drama space!

Co-written by Fraser Coull and Emmy winning writer Roland Moore, this 6 part, full cast series will tell a brand new story in the Cops and Monsters universe.

One year on from the monumental asylum treaty between the Scottish Government and the supernatural communities, the Paranormal Investigation Team Scotland (or PITS) have kept things more or less steady between both sides.

Vampires, werewolves and zombies have been keeping to their zones, with permission granted for vampires and zombies to work and socialise in human zones, with very little incident.

On the eve of the one year of peace a vampire is brutally murdered in her zone, seemingly by a werewolf! How did they access the vampire zone, and who would risk the treaty with such a dangerous act?

P.I.T.S leader Eve Mitchell and her team – Jack Stone and Finn Campbell along with the first ever werewolf to be part of the unit, Alia Carmichael – are tasked by Commander Norris Fletcher to solve the crime and restore peace before it’s too late.

But the head of the vampire community, Lady Audrey McDairmid doesn’t trust P.I.T.S to do their job efficiently and orders them to solve the murder in 72 hours or they’ll deal with it themselves, shutting P.I.T.S down in the process.

The series is currently being written by Fraser Coull, Roland Moore, Amelia Nashe, Lorna King, Lindz McLeod and Philip Lawrence.

Amelia Nashe:

Amelia is a screenwriter based near Glasgow, with a background in poetry and short stories. She is an alumni of BBC Writersroom Scottish Voices 2020-21 and Glasgow Caledonian University’s Creative Skillset-accredited MA TV Fiction Writing course. 

She’s written and produced two short films – one award-winning, one made in lockdown, both streamable on indie SVoD Indie-Clips – with a third currently in post-production with Screen Scotland and GMAC as part of Little Pictures. She has also written jokes for BBC Scotland’s Breaking the News and sketches for Glasgow-based all-female comedy collective Witsherface. 

She has worked in several industry roles, including Team Assistant on River City, Head of K Studios at sustainable development company and UN GC member K Enterprises and now Multiskilled Subtitler at Red Bee Media. 

Amelia writes across a broad range of genres, but gravitates towards themes around mental illness, nature vs technology and childhood vs adult imagination.

Lorna King:

Lorna King is a neurospicy Ghanaian-Scottish screenwriter and a graduate of Screen Academy Scotland.

Her short script EXOTIC won the Glasgow Short Film Festival pitch competition in 2019 and she was selected for the prestigious Less is More Scottish residency 2020 run by Le Groupe Ouest. Her short script HER MIDAS TOUCH was developed as part of the BFI/Screen Scotland Sharp Shorts scheme. It earned several laurels at competition, including reaching the Top Five scripts in the Shore Scripts Short Film Fund 2020 and is due for release this soon.

She is one of ITV Studios’ Disabled Writers in Development for 2023, developing an original pilot for the network.

In 2022 Lorna wrote an original pilot under commission for Sky as part of the Youngs Film Foundation and delivered her first episode of RIVER CITY.

Lorna is represented by Steven Russell.

Lindz McLeod:

Lindz McLeod (she/they) is a queer Scottish writer whose short work has been published by Apex, Catapult, DIVA, Nightmare, and many more. Her longer work includes the award-winning short story collection TURDUCKEN, her books SUNBATHERS, QUEEN O’NINE TAILS, and THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET, as well as the forthcoming WE THE DROWNING and THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY. 

Her work has been taught in schools and universities, turned into avant-garde opera, and optioned for television. She is currently in her final year of a PhD in Creative Writing. You can find Lindz waxing lyrical about books, cats, and her film podcast, Cinema Worms, on Bluesky at @lindzmcleod, Instagram @lindz.mcleod, and examples of her work can be found on http://www.lindzmcleod.co.uk

Philip Lawrence:

Philip began his career writing for the stage and then audio drama (Doctor Who/ Big Finish) before winning the C21 TV Drama Script Prize with his black comedy ‘Euthanasia In Suburbia’. 

He has since written numerous episodes for EastEnders, Holby City and Casualty. His first thriller TV movie ‘How To Frame A Family’ is streaming on Amazon Prime and his latest Doctor Who audio adventure ‘Hard Feelings’ was released in February. After numerous attempts he is thrilled to be finally joining the world of Cops and Monsters.

Roland Moore:

As well as winning an International Emmy Award for FALLEN (2025), Roland Moore’s work as a series creator, head writer and scriptwriter has won a Royal Television Award and a Broadcast Award. He’s also won a London Writers’ Award.

He works in a wide range of genres for film and television in the UK, Europe, New Zealand, America, and China. He created the BBC1 returning period drama series, LAND GIRLS and was the Head Writer on HUMANS for Endemol Shine China and Croton Media – making him one of the few UK writers to create series for both the BBC and China.

Currently, two new TV crime series have been optioned by Screen Sirens (Canada) and DCD Rights (UK).

His feature film work includes 2:HRS and SUMMER CAN WAIT. He has written for Big Finish writing original audio dramas for their DOCTOR WHO, SPACE 1999, THE AVENGERS, STAR COPS and SURVIVORS ranges. As well as lecturing on creative writing, he was also a creative consultant for a vertical drama company, advising on adapting Chinese and Indian vertical dramas for the UK.

Roland has written extensively for children as well – with credits including PETER RABBIT (Nickelodeon), RASTAMOUSE (BBC), MEEOW (ITV) and WAYBULOO (BBC). He also wrote the family comedy film 2:HRS (2019).

Fraser Coull:

Fraser has been writing since 2005, creating Scotland’s first ever web series Night is Day, which ran for two series followed by a feature film version in 2012. Fraser also created and was showrunner on the original Cops and Monsters web series from 2014 to 2018 which is streaming on Amazon Prime and Google Play. His recent short, Faithful won BEST SCREENPLAY at the British Short Film Awards and is screening on STV Player after a US premiere at WonderCon in California and San Diego Comic Con.