River City star Stephen Purdon discusses his new role as Private Colin Bissett in Cops and Monsters: Uprising!
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Series 2 Episode 1 is Officially Wrapped!
Debbie Moon’s fantastic opening episode of series 2, “Remembrance” is now officially wrapped.
Filmed over 3 days, the opening episode sees Maya Hedges (Ellen Patterson) in a brand new world as she joins the S.P.I.D.E.R.S (SuPernatural IDentification Executive Regiment Scotland), working under cover with wanted werewolf Alexis Smith (Innes Anderson) to ensure the S.P.I.D.E.R.S don’t start an war with the supernatural community. However could Maya feel out of her depth when paired with her “buddy” Private Colin Bissett (Stephen Purdon) on their first case to a reported zombie sighting in human only zone 1?
The edit will begin shortly and we’ll share behind the scenes photos from the day, cast interviews, behind the scenes footage and a brand new teaser to whet your appetites for series 2.
The Kickstarter campaign to shoot episode 2 will officially launch on the 1st of August at this link or you can join us on Patreon as we attempt to raise all funds needed to shoot episodes 2-6 this year.
Day 1 Photos
Sonja Bleitschau has sent her the photos she took while filming scenes for Cops and Monsters: Uprising on Sunday.
We’ve made a selection available on our Patreon page for you to own as 6 x 4 prints, and in return will help us raise funds to shoot episodes 2-6 this year.
We’re back on set this weekend and so more photos will be made available 🙂
Cops and Monsters: Series 2 Begins Filming
Yesterday we officially started filming Cops and Monsters: Uprising!
Billy Kirkwood, Ellen Patterson and Innes Anderson were joined by newcomer Louise McMenemy as we filmed scenes from episodes 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 in one location to get filming underway!
The crew were joined by some new faces and we even managed to wrap early!
Our official on set photography, Sonja Blietschau will be sending us her on set photos and we’ll be sharing them here, on our Kickstarter campaigns and on our Patreon account!
Filming resumes this weekend with episode 1 being wrapped and sent off to be edited, while we begin the fundraising to shoot episode 2, and hopefully more!
If you’d like to be a part of the Cops and Monsters Omniverse then you can join us as an Official Patreon, pledging any amount each month, with all the funds going to shoot the last 5 episodes of series 2. Head to this link to find out more.
San Diego and Patreon
One day we hope to be able to attend the San Diego Comic Con in some capacity in order to promote the show to the hundreds of thousands of people who attend yearly, but alas, it will not be this year.
Instead we’ll be on location filming Debbie Moon’s opening episode of series 2, “Remembrance”, and some scenes from the other 5 scripts.
We do however intend to publish some new promotional stills, behind the scenes interviews… and perhaps a clip or two!
The majority of these will appear on this website, our Twitter and Facebook page.
Some of the material will be saved and shared on our new Patreon page. Patreon is a sort of crowdfunding site, where fans of your product, in our case, our webseries, can become a patron and donate a chosen amount of money each month. These funds go towards a goal – again in our case we’ve set it for $5,000 per episode – which will allow us to hopefully fund the remaining episodes of series 2. And maybe beyond…
To find out more about Patreon and how you can join us there, click this link.
Casting Announcement – William McBain
We are delighted to announce that Scottish actor William McBain has joined the cast of our brand new episode.
William MacBain has appeared in many productions at The Royal National Theatre:- The Good Hope, The Nativity, The Passion, Doomsday, Goldern Boy and Don Quixote. He was a member of Bill Bryden’s Company in The Ship and The Big Picnic. He has appeared in all of Peter McDougall’s highly acclaimed plays:- The Father’s Suit, The Brother’s Suit, The Shedding of the Suit, The Brother’s Keeper, “But That Was Then”, The Vampire Clinic. Most recently *”The Greatest” by Alan Muir. Television credits:- Taggart, Casualty, Holy City, The Young Ones and This is Your Life. Film credits:- Cat Run, Man to Man, The Summer Solstice, Complicity, Ill Fares The Land, Who Dares Wins and Confessions of a Window Cleaner.
William joins episode 1 and will be playing Connor Tulloch, opposite River City legend Barbara Rafferty.
Filming starts on the 15th of July!
Our Kickstarter for episode 1 ends today so if you’d like to grab a perk, you can do so by clicking this link.
Casting Announcement – River City’s Louise McMenemy Joins The Cast
We are delighted to announce that we’ve cast the role of Ava McIntyre in Cops and Monsters: Uprising!
Louise McMenemy who is currently playing Frankie Roth in Scottish soap drama River City, has joined our cast and will be playing Ava in our upcoming episodes. Ava will first appear in episode 2.
Louise’s theatre credits also include: Diary of a Madman (Edinburgh Traverse Theatre/Gate Theatre); Agamenon (The Iphigenia Quartet) (The Gate Theatre); SEE BOB RUN (New Blue Road/ The Bread and Roses);The GIRL WITH THE IMAGINATION (Vertical Line/ Greenwich Theatre) and BORIS GODUNOV (Brockley Jack Theatre).
As a River City series regular, Louise is excited to now be able to sink her teeth in to some fun Sci-Fi!
Louise is joining other River City veterans Stephen Purdon and Barbara Rafferty!
We should even more casting soon news before our campaign ends.
We hope to film Louise’s first scenes on the 15th of July but we can only do so if we raise a further £1043 before our campaign ends on the 9th of July so if you can help us get there then the entire team would be incredibly grateful.
Thank you to all of our amazing backers so far, we really do appreciate everything that you do and that you keep our show going!
Head to our Kickstarter Campaign to help us reach our stretch goal in time and be a part of the Cops and Monsters Omniverse!!
Cast Announcement – River City’s Barbara Rafferty Joins Episode 1
Barbara Rafferty – star of Rab C Nesbitt, The Last King of Scotland and River City – has joined the cast of Cops and Monsters series 2.
Barbara will be playing the role of Heather Tulloch, a sweet woman who is living with her devoted husband Connor, as their lives are thrown upside down when S.P.I.D.E.R.S operatives Bissett and Hedges (Stephen Purdon and Ellen Patterson) come crashing into their homes.
Series 2 will start filming with episode 1, written by BAFTA winning writer Debbie Moon’s opening episode “Remembrance” being filmed this July. Once completed, we will then start seeking further funding to shoot the other 5 episodes.
Head to our Kickstarter campaign at this link if you would like to get involved with the show!
Cops and Monsters at Nine Worlds
We are delighted to announce that Cops and Monsters will be a part of Nine Worlds 2018 with our own session as part of the event!
During our session we will be joined by cast and crew of the series, to discuss what goes into making the show, clips and previews from the series and how you can get involved.
This is our first time at Nine Worlds and we can’t wait to see what it’s all about and meet everybody!
The convention takes place between the 10th and 12th of August and all details are on their website.
Thank you to Nine Worlds for inviting us!
Happy Birthday Ellen Patterson!
We’d like to wish Ellen Patterson, who plays Maya Hedges in Cops and Monsters, a very happy birthday!
Ellen will be back in action as Maya for Cops and Monsters series 2 this year!
Have a great day Ellen!
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