Please join us in wishing Billy Kirkwood, who plays The Cult of Many Faces, a very happy birthday today!
We love you Billy!
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Cops and Monsters – Series 2 – What’s Next?
With Cops and Monsters series 1 now on Amazon Prime we are looking ahead at what happens next.
Series 1 was produced for around £15,000, which we raised via several crowdfunding campaigns on Kickstarter and Indiegogo. While these were effective and it allowed us to produce 8 episodes, paying our cast and crew, visual effects, sound design, music, editing, locations, props and costumes, it meant that we had to take a more staggered approach to making the show.
In order to shoot an episode we had to run a campaign for that particular episode, as in the past we had tried to raise the full amount for the series, only to fall short of our target. Crowdfunding, while a very competent way to raise our budget, is also a very time restraining exercise, and as our team are working with us on a part-time/episode-by-episode basis, we sometimes struggle to get the word out there to help us raise the money to hit our goals.
This December we will be interviewing the short listed selected writers, of which around 340 people had sent in their spec scripts for consideration to join the writing staff for series 2. We had a total of 2 readers to go through them all, in their own spare time, and eventually short listed the successful writers.
It is our intention to shoot a brand new series, with 6 x 20 minute episodes, sometime in 2018, and at this stage we would release them all on Amazon Prime, and only once they were all edited and ready to go.
At this stage we plan to run a short crowdfunding campaign at the start of 2018 in order to pay the selected writers to pen our 6 episodes, which we will then (hopefully) use to attract backers, investors and sponsors, in order to raise our projected budget and shoot all 6 episodes in a block later in the year. For series 1 we could only shoot the episodes once we had raised the money for that particular episode, hence taking from 2015 to 2017 to complete the 8 episodes.
Beyond that we have no further details. We will be looking into grants and local funding to see if there’s a way to get support from the local government to help us make series 2, but we suspect we’ll need to do it by ourselves again.
If we have any more news, we will share it on our social media pages and of course, on our official website.
In the meantime you can watch all 8 episodes of series 1 on Amazon Prime UK and US!
Cops and Monsters – 2017 Review
2017 was a fantastic year for Cops and Monsters. We shot 2 new episodes, bringing our total up to 9, and completed series 1. We were nominated in the “Best Web Series” selection for the Web Fest New York and we were selected to be streamed on Amazon Prime UK and Amazon Prime US.
First up was “Trapped”, a minisode starring Katrina Bryan (Nina and the Neurons), Joanna Littlefield and Victoria Gibson. Set during a werewolf meeting, a dangerous werewolf assassin, known as The Hunter, tracks down Jenny, in order to exact revenge for a past misdeed. Forcing PITS agent Astrid Bennett to step in to save them both. We rehearsed the fight scene, which was the crux of the episode, the day before, and shot the entire episode in 1 day.
Then we finished off the series by crowdfunding for the finale, “Inhuman Nature”, raising over £3300 in order to shoot over 3 days, hire guest stars James Mackenzie (Raven), Wendy Wason (Sherlock) and Leona Vaughan (Wolfblood, Stella) to fill out the cast.
Having the extra day to film the script allowed the cast to be more creative and allowed us to relax a little bit too, easing the atmosphere on set to be more enjoyable. There was a real sense of “last day of school” for definite.
To celebrate, we filled out a screening at the Grosvenor Cinema in Glasgow’s west end with cast, crew and members of the public, screening all 8 episodes for the first time.
And to top off the year, we struck a deal with MY Productions to have series 1 stream exclusively on Amazon Prime UK and US, where so far we’ve had over 13 reviews, sitting at 4.5 stars out of 5.
And now we look to 2018. We had over 350 writers submit their spec scripts to us when we put up a call looking for people to join the writing team for series 2, which we shortlisted to just 9, who we will be interviewing in December. More profile actors from the UK have contacted us and expressed their interest to work with us on the show, so we can only hope that it comes to fruition.
We’d like to thank you all for being a part of Cops and Monsters, since we started back in 2014 with our pilot episode! We hope you’ll stick with us as we start to pre-production on series 2 next year.
Cops and Monsters – Now on Amazon Prime US and Amazon Video
“Cops and Monsters” season 1 is now officially available on Amazon Prime US and Amazon Instant Video US.
You can watch season 1 in it’s entirety by clicking this link.
“When Alexis, a ferocious werewolf assassin working for the mysterious Cult of Many Faces, strikes again, the Paranormal Investigation Team Scotland send in their two new recruits, Maya Hedges and Martin Carmichael, to investigate. However, Maya is hiding a terrible secret, seeking answers and revenge on the werewolves who killed her parents years previously.
Series 2 will begin pre-production in 2018 as the creative team seek funding to produce new episodes.
Cops and Monsters – Now Available on Amazon Prime – Amazon Instant
Series 1 of Cops and Monsters now on Amazon Prime and Amazon Instant!
Episode 1 is still available to watch on YouTube and on this website, however episodes 2-9 are now available exclusively on Amazon Prime and Amazon Instant.
Click here to head over to our page on Amazon Prime to watch series 1!
Thank you to everybody who has supported Cops and Monsters so far, we are truly grateful to our fans and we hope that our move to Amazon will help bring in a bigger fanbase that will help us produce series 2 in 2018.
Cops and Monsters on Amazon Prime – 27th October 2017
As of October 27th all 8 episodes of Cops and Monsters series 1 will be available to watch EXCLUSIVELY on Amazon Prime.
All of our episodes will be removed from our official YouTube channel on the 26th of October. However cast interviews, trailers, previews and more will still be available.
The remaining perks for our recent campaigns will be posted out by the end of November. Thank you for your patience. We had been waiting for series 1 to be completed, as well as the behind the scenes featurettes for the finale, to include these on all DVD and blu-ray perks.
Series 2 – Script Submission Updates
We received over 300 script submissions for our open-call for series 2 writers. With 194 valid scripts, we whittled them down to a long-list, and then a short list of around 10.
Thank you to everybody who sent in their scripts, we were delighted to read them!
In November we’ll be holding meetings with our short listed writers.
We hope to announce exciting news for series 1 very soon, as we look into finalising crowdfunding perks from our last couple of campaigns, sending them off by the end of November.
In the meantime be sure to catch up on our series 1 finale, which was released a month ago today!
Cops and Monsters on Camglen Radio
Showrunner Fraser Coull appeared on The Banterers show as part of CamGlen Radio on the 31st of August.
Click this LINK to listen to it from the 29 minute mark.
Series 1 Finale – Inhuman Nature – Watch Now!
Our series 1 finale, “Inhuman Nature”, is now LIVE!
If you’ve not watched the previous episodes, be sure to head to this link and catch up (otherwise, it won’t make much sense!)
We hope you enjoy the conclusion of series 1! We’ve put everything we’ve got into making these 8 episodes over the last 2 years, and we are immensely proud of the results.
Thank you to every single person who helped get us here. It means everything to us.
Now we will promote the full series, plug it everywhere that we can and seek funding to make a 2nd, bigger series for you all to enjoy in 2018.
Geek Retreat’s Series 1 Review
With series 1 about to come to a close with the release of our finale, “Inhuman Nature” on the 2nd of September, we’re sending out screener DVDs for reviews.
The team over at Geek Retreat have kindly reviewed the first series and you can read what they had to say by clicking here.
We hope that we get more reviews as time goes on!
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