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Episode 4 Crowdfunding Complete!

Billy and Colin Enjoying'Fun Time' at the 'Cops and Monsters' Filming in Glasgow - 19 January 2014

With 13 days to go, we’ve hit our crowdfunding target to shoot episode 4 of our series!

If you’d like to support us you have until the 28th of February to grab a perk and be a part of the show. The more money we raise, the more episodes we can potentially produce.

Episode 4 is in pre-production, with auditions for the role of Alexis taking part on the 20th of February, before filming on the 19th and 26th of March.

We’ll be appearing at the Capital Sci-Fi Con on the 27th and 28th of February, with a panel at 12pm on Saturday. So come along and meet some of our cast and crew!

Once episode 4 is complete, we will be focussing on the rest of “Volume 1”, comprising of episodes 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. We also have two stand-alone episodes written by award winning writer Roland Moore and “Wolfblood” writer Hannah George.

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“Doctor Who” companion Sophie Aldred joins the cast of episode 4, playing Tina Hedges, the aunt of new PITS member Maya, played by Ellen Patterson. Sophie joins returning cast members Ellen, Kenny Boyle, Chris Bain and Billy Kirkwood.

In episode 4 we meet a grown-up Alexis, a powerful werewolf last scene in “Preparing the Weapon“, cutting loose and having some fun, when something takes over her and her dangerous werewolf abilities rise to the surface. When Maya and Martin arrive on the scene to investigate, emotions boil over between the pair, forcing Maya to storm off, leaving Martin to continue the investigation. When Maya meets her Aunt for a coffee to cool down, her entire world is flipped on it’s head.

Casting Announcement – Scottish Actor Kenny Boyle Returns!

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Scottish-born actor Kenny Boyle will be returning as Martin Carmichael, a hacker with a troubled past, and feelings belonging to new PITs member Maya Hedges.

We can’t give too much away, but things are about to get… complicated for Martin, and you’ll see more of that by the end of episode 4.

Since emerging into the acting world Kenny has appeared in various plays across Scotland, most recently a tour of one man show “Hero Worship” and Theatre’s “Nine Lives of Roddy Hogg”. He’s had the pleasure of appearing in the Tron Theatre as Ariel in “The Tempest “and the Traverse in Isobel Wright’s “Blind Eye” as well as appearing in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe twice.

He recently appeared award winning film “Perfect Strangers” which was warmly received by festivals around the world.

He is keen to see where his character will go and what he shall become as he journeys through the world if Cops and Monsters.

“Wolfblood” Writer Joins The Show

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Wolfblood” writer Hannah George has joined the writing team of our web-series! Hannah will be writing a standalone minisode that will be available to backers of our episode 4 kickstarter campaign and on our DVD, also available as a perk on our crowdfunding campaign.

Hannah joins award winning writer Roland Moore in writing a minisode for series 1 of our show and we can’t wait to see what she brings to the universe.

Hannah has written for CBBC’s Wolfblood, The Slammer, Diddy TV and Justin’s House, Nickelodeon’s House of Anubis, Sky 1’s Trollied and is currently writing for the Disney Channel. She has written and directed her own comedy web series S-Band and is keen to support other web series creators so is looking forward to getting involved with Cops and Monsters.

You can visit Hannah’s official website by clicking here.

Episode 4 Crowdfunding Now Live!

Billy and Colin Enjoying'Fun Time' at the 'Cops and Monsters' Filming in Glasgow - 19 January 2014

We have officially launched our crowdfunding campaign to shoot episode 4 today!

Over the next 30 days we will be campaigning on social media and beyond to raise the £830 required to produce our next episode. The money raised will pay for equipment, props, special effects makeup, visual effects designs, sound design, music to be composed, costumes to be bought and most importantly it will allow us to pay our cast and crew for the 2 day shoot.

By heading over to our campaign on Kickstarter by clicking HERE you can read all about our cast, the synopsis of episode 4 and the many perks you can claim in return for your support. These include signed scripts, props, set visits, posters and more.

Two exclusive mini-episodes written by Hannah George (Wolfblood) and Roland Moore (Land Girls) are also available as exclusive perks and will only be made available as a private link to our backers and for those who buy our episodes 1-4 DVD.

Our campaign ends on the 28th of February so please do spread the word and if possible, donate to our episode.

At 9pm this evening we’ll be announcing our VERY special guest star too.

Award winning writer Roland Moore joins the team!

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Award winning writer Roland Moore has joined the writing team of Cops and Monsters.

Roland, who is best known for creating and writing the BBC 1 drama “Land Girls”, will be writing one of two special mini-episodes that will be exclusively available on our DVD and to backers of our episode 4 crowdfunding campaign that launches on Friday 29th of January at 9am.

Roland wrote the adventure film “2:hrs” and created the award-winning BBC1 series “Land Girls”. He also wrote a steam punk sci-fi re-imagining of “White Fang” and is currently working on an international Gothic drama series about the witch hunts.
Speaking about joining the world of Cops and Monsters, Roland had this to say –
“Cops and Monsters has been brought to life by the determination of its creator, Fraser Coull – and it’s an interesting world that he’s created. I’ve always loved sci-fi and horror – so a world that combined elements of the two genres was appealing to me. I’m looking forward to telling a story within it!”

We can’t wait to see what Roland brings to the show!

Cops and Monsters at Comic Con

Ellie Hughes has put together a video covering our time promoting Cops and Monsters at Scifi Wales and MCM Comic Con Glasgow in 2015, just in time for our next comic con appearance!

Meanwhile we’ll be announcing our special guest for episode 4 and launching our episode 4 crowdfunding page on the 29th of January! We hope some of you will be able to help us raise the money we need to shoot our latest episode.

Scottish Fight Director Carter Ferguson Joins Episode 4

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Scottish fight director Carter Ferguson has joined our crew for episode 4 to help us stage some of our more complicated sequences in the episode.

Carter is well-versed in fight directing and you can find out more about him and his experience on his official website.

Episode 4 is shaping up to be our most ambitious episode to date and we can’t wait to announce more details.

Casting Call – Do You Want To Be In The Show?

We’re casting for episode 4 of our show and offering the role to budding actors everywhere!

Filming will be taking place in Glasgow on the 26th of March 2016. We are offering to pay National Minimum Wage for the role, however we can’t offer travel or accommodation expenses.

If you’re interested please read the role description and if you’re suitable drop us an email with your HEADSHOT, CV and if possible, your SHOWREEL. Click here to send us an e-mail.

We’re looking for an actress to play Alexis, a young, feisty woman who has the ability to transform into a werewolf without the powers of a full moon.

Preferably Scottish with red/auburn hair (but we are open to hair colouring) aged 21 plus with a playing age of 21.

Alexis is a main character and will feature in future episodes, with filming dates for these episodes to be confirmed so we are looking for someone flexible. Any stage combat experience would be advantageous for future episodes.

All of our videos and episodes so far can be watched at http://www.copsandmonsters.co.uk

Auditions will take place in Glasgow in the beginning of February – either the 6th, 7th, 13th or 14th. All short listed actors will be informed of the date ASAP.

Thank you.

Casting Announcement 29th January

Filming a promotional 'Cops and Monsters' video in Glasgow - 24 May 2015

We’ve secured a very talented actress to play the part of Tina Hedges in episode 4. Fans of the sci-fi genre will recognise her but we’re going to announce the casting on the 29th of January when our Episode 4 kickstarter campaign goes live.

So once we’ve cleared the deck, and our guest star gets out of her pyjamas to come to set in March, we’ll release some teasing clues to keep you guessing until then…

“In Crimson”, by Ian Smith, is the 4th episode so far, and kickstarts a 4-part story as PITS newcomers Maya and Martin struggle to work together in their investigation of a streak of werewolf-related murders. Meanwhile Alexis, aka Lycan A202, last seen accidentally murdering her protector, goes on the run as she fights to discover if she is more beast than woman, just as The Cult of Many Faces starts his campaign of terror against the PITS team.

Shooting will take place on the 19th and 26th of March before entering post-production and released on-line as soon as possible.

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Ellen Patterson, Kenny Boyle, Billy Kirkwood and Chris Bain return with more casting to be announced over the coming weeks.