Series creator Fraser Coull and star Innes Anderson (Alexis) were invited onto US Doctor Who podcast MarkWho42 to chat about the show and what it was like working with Sophie Aldred (Ace from Doctor Who).
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We’ve added behind the scenes stills from our Christmas episode, “Astrid’s Secret”, penned by Roland Moore, in our Gallery. Thanks to Digi Eye Media for providing us with the stills.
With just 23 days until Christmas we thought we’d treat you to a little teaser of our upcoming Christmas episode, “Astrid’s Secret”, starring Simon Weir, Joanna Harte and Rowan Birkett. Written by Roland Moore the episode introduces us to PITS agent Astrid Bennett whose world is rocked upside down when the PITS Commander himself, Norris Fletcher, pops by for a visit during the holidays…
We’ll be releasing the episode before the 25th of December.
Episode 5, “Revolution in a Teacup”, is nearly finished and will be released shortly.
Episode 6, “Fight the Bite” will be released in the New Year.
We’ve been selected to be screened at the VAULT Film Festival in London next February!
Once we have more information we’ll be sure to share it!
In the meantime make sure to check out our new YouTube Trailer and click SUBSCRIBE!
With under 2 weeks until we film our Christmas special, “Astrid’s Secret”, we can now officially announce that actress Rowan Birkett has joined our cast.
Rowan will be playing Catherine Bennett, daughter of Astrid, in our next episode.
Here’s what Rowan had to say:
“I’m an actress that couldn’t afford drama school so have a degree in Psychology. I’ve recently been down in London performing in a site specific theatre piece called Sitting Comfortably directed by Geraldine Pilgrim. Next year year I have my first role in a feature film as Mirwen in Kingdom: Fall of Illandrieal. I’m a member of the National Youth Theatre and I’m one of the voice actors in an ongoing sci-fi radio drama called Tin Can. I applied for Cops and Monsters because I saw a casting call and thought I’d make a damn good Zombie. My resting facial expression is naturally vacant so that helps. On the shoot I’m looking forward to meeting some new people who are passionate about what they do, and playing a zombie. Though admittedly I like to think I’d be on the surviving side when the eventual apocalypse does take place. I guess we’ll see.“
Filming takes place on the 26th of November and we aim to get the episode online in time for Christmas.
It won’t be long now until we release episode 5 of our web-series, in fact we plan to show “Revolution in a Teacup” to the world by the end of November!
Continuing the story that we started with “The New Recruit”, Maya Hedges searches for her kidnapped colleague, leading her to question vampire leader Lady Audrey MacDairmid, with goody-two-shoes Grace Mackenzie on her tail to stop her from doing anything stupid.
Meanwhile The Cult of Many Faces ups his game of terror against the members of the Paranormal Investigation Team, releasing his killer werewolf out into the world to strike again…
Starring Ellen Patterson, Simon Weir, Billy Kirkwood, Kenny Boyle and Innes Anderson with guest stars Sophie Aldred, Mhairi Calvey, James Payton and Rachel Teate. Written by James T Harding.
Be sure to catch up on the full story at our official YouTube page and don’t forget to click “Subscribe”!
Episode 5 will be released to all of our backers first before being uploaded to our YouTube channel.
Episode 6 is about to enter post-production, with Anne Nicholson beginning the edit soon. Written by Laura Anderson, “Fight the Bite” will continue immediately on from episode 6 and bring Volume 1 closer to it’s conclusion…
Guest stars include Katrina Bryan, Leona Vaughan, Rachel Teate, Tam Toye, Matt Robertson and Chris Bain.
We aim to release this episode to the public early in 2017. However we will be producing our Christmas episode, “Astrid’s Secret”, written by Roland Moore, filming it on the 26th of November this year. It will be released sometime in December.
Finally we will be producing the 7th episode of volume 1 in Spring 2017, bringing the case of Lycan A202 to a dramatic and devastating close.
“Revolution in a Teacup”, our 5th episode of Cops and Monsters, is currently in post-production.
Leila Dean, our latest visual effects artist to join the team, is currently working on the effects for the new episode, which means we are one step closer to having the episode ready for release.
Episode 5, written by James T Harding, will see Maya Hedges frantically searching for Martin Carmichael, who has been kidnapped by The Cult of Many Faces, leading her to Lady Audrey MacDairmid (Sophie Aldred), who might just be able to help her case. Meanwhile Alexis is confronted with a face from her past, forcing her to deal with her future in ways she didn’t predict.
Sophie Aldred guest stars as vampire leader Lady MacDairmid
James Payton stars as werewolf activist David Brannigan
Wolfblood star Rachel Teate makes her debut as Grace Mackenzie, a goody-two-shoes PITS agent.
A quick update to say that episode 5 has completed it’s 2nd edit by Anne Nicholson! Running at just over 22 minutes, we’ve now sent off the episode for visual effects, sound design and music.
We’re aiming to release the episode this November and we will send out a private link for you all to see it before the episode goes live to the public.
DVDs and blu-rays will be made up and sent off in November also.
The edit for episode 6 will start by the end of October and we hope to release it to our backers in December.
We will be shooting our Christmas episode, “Astrid’s Secret”, written by Roland Moore, on the 26th of November. This was down to a successful crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo.
Thank you all for your continued support of Cops and Monsters.
The first edit of episode 5, “Revolution in a Teacup”, is in. Notes have been sent back and then we’ll be sending it off for visual effects, music and sound! Hopefully we’ll be able to release the episode to the public early November!
Our backers for episodes 5, 6 and the Christmas episode will receive a private link before the public release so you can all see it before anybody else!
The Indiegogo campaign for our Christmas episode has 18 days left and we’re £294 away from our goal! You can find out more and get involved by clicking here.
With a month to go until we shoot our Christmas episode, “Astrid’s Secret”, by Roland Moore, we can now officially announce actress Wanda Opalinska, who will be playing the titular Astrid in the episode.
Wanda recent TV work includes: Silent Witness, Home Fires, Raised by Wolves. Other TV work includes: Peaky Blinders, The Vote and The Trials of Jimmy Rose.
She can currently be seen in the film ‘A Monster Calls’ and is a series regular in the Welsh language drama ‘Parch’.
As for why she’d like to play Astrid:
“I’ve not done a lot of Sci-Fi (aside from playing Justine in Faction Paradox, where I thoroughly enjoyed battling Sutekh), so this is a lovely opportunity to immerse myself in another world.
And who wouldn’t want to be in a series titled ‘Cops and Monsters’?”
We’re currently £498 away from being able to make the Christmas episode happen on our Indieigogo Campaign so if you’d like to help us you can check it out by clicking here.
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