Here it is! Our brand new episode of Cops and Monsters. Written by James T Harding and guest starring Sophie Aldred, James Payton, Mhairi Calvey and Rachel Teate.
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Astrid’s Secret – Watch it Now! Christmas Special 2016
You can now watch our 2016 Christmas special, “Astrid’s Secret”, written by Roland Moore!
Thank you to everybody who helped make it happen! We hope that you enjoy the festive episode.
Join us on the 27th of December at 3pm to watch our next episode, “Revolution in a Teacup”.
Once you’ve watched our Christmas episode be sure to watch our behind the scenes and have a look at how we made the episode happen.
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY 2017!
MarkWho42 Podcast
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).
You can click on this link to listen to all things Cops and Monsters and more.
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.
Astrid’s Secret – Teaser Trailer – Christmas Special 2016
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.
Casting Announcement – Joanna Harte
Due to scheduling conflicts, we’ve cast Joanna Harte in the role of Astrid Bennett in our upcoming Christmas episode, “Astrid’s Secret”, which we are filming this weekend.
Joanna had this to say about joining the cast –
“I am delighted to be joining Cops and Monsters for the Christmas Special, Astrid is a gem of a role, with her dark secret, can’t wait to get my teeth stuck into it!”
2016 has been a busy year for Joanna, touring with “Mums the Word”, appearing in various commercials and short films and most recently working on Outlander series 3.
Previous TV credits include Casualty, City Lights, Black Eyes, Bergerac along with many theatre credits. Joanna is a graduate from The Royal Scottish Conservatoire, previous to her acting career Joanna had been a professional dancer working in many of the UK’s No 1 touring theatres.
In the last 12 months Joanna returned to acting after focussing her time on her 3 children but now they can all get to school on time! She is throwing herself full throttle back into performing and finds the world of web series an exciting concept to be part of.
We’re looking forward to working with Joanna on the Christmas episode.
Leona Kate Vaughan Nominated for 2016 BAFTA Children’s Award
Please join us in wishing our episode 6 guest star Leona Kate Vaughan good luck as she has been nominated for the 2016 Children’s BAFTA award for her performance as Jana in Wolfblood!
To find out more click here.
GOOD LUCK LEONA!
Casting Announcement – Rowan Birkett
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.
Cops and Monsters Merchandise – Support Indie Film
We are offering a small range of merchandise from the world of Cops and Monsters for you to own, and in return help us make more episodes of the show.
So far we’ve got a DVD with all our currently available episodes, two different A3 posters, t-shirts and hoodies.
We commissioned artist Michael Philp to create a front page for an as-yet-to-be-made Cops and Monsters comic strip and now you can own it for just £10! We’ll print it off as A4 and laminate it for you.
Head over to our Merchandise page and help us make more Cops and Monsters next year!
Latest News – Scottish Webseries – Indie Filmmaking
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.
Episode 5 Update
“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.
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