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Doctor Who’s Sophie Aldred Returns!

We are delighted that Sophie Aldred is returning to the world of Cops and Monsters, playing the role of vampire Queen, Lady Audrey McDairmid, in our audio series “The Year of Peace”.

Born and raised in South East London, Sophie studied drama at the University of Manchester and worked in children’s theatre, working mens’ clubs and musicals before being cast as Ace, Doctor Who number seven’s feisty companion.

She is also well known for her work as a presenter, especially children’s TV, for her extensive voice work, her podcast, Sophie Aldred’s Ace Odyssey and she has published several books including a novel, At Childhood’s End and an anthology, Ace Jacket.

As pre-production ramps up, we hope to announce more guest stars and launch our crowdfunding campaign to raise funds to produce our 6 part series with B7 Media.

Sophie will join her Doctor Who co-star Sylvester McCoy throughout the series.

“Cops and Monsters: The Year of Peace” will be produced by Silly Wee Films and written by Roland Moore, Fraser Coull, Lindz McLeod, Lorna King, Amelia Nashe and Philip Lawrence.

Sylvester McCoy Joins Cops and Monsters!

(Photo by Dominic Mafham)

We are THRILLED to announce that Doctor Who legend Sylvester McCoy has agreed to star in our upcoming audio series Cops and Monsters: The Year of Peace.

Sylvester will be playing the role of Sir Malcolm Sinclair and more details will be revealed in due course…

Well known as the Seventh Doctor in DOCTOR WHO classic series, he was also delighted to be invited back into TALES OF THE TARDIS to celebrate the series’ 60th Anniversary, and THE POWER OF THE DOCTOR celebrating Jodie Whittaker’s finale. And let’s not forget the FIVE(ISH) DOCTORS REBOOT in celebration of the series’ 50th Anniversary. The character is also alive and thriving in his Big Finish audio recordings.

You may also have enjoyed him as Igor in Rob Zombie’s latest telling of THE MUNSTERS for Universal;  or as The Umbrella Man in HEARTSMITH; as The Old Man of Hoy in Lana Wachowski’s cult series SENSE 8, or Dr Huggins in Julius Berg’s psychological thriller THE OWNERS for which he won the Best Actor Award at Frightfest Film Festival 2021.

Oh, and he was in THE HOBBIT you know! Giving his ‘Radagast the Brown’ in Peter Jackson’s THE HOBBIT trilogy.

 His TV work ranges from the infamous KEN CAMPBELL ROADSHOW to the Hermit of Hazelnut Cottage, a role written especially for him, in BBC TV’s ever popular FATHER BROWN.  As Archie in the ever loved STILL GAME or as Rab C Nesbitt’s lunatic brother, living in his wardrobe!

Playing the Fool to Sir Ian McKellen’s KING LEAR at the Royal Shakespeare Company took him from Stratford upon Avon onto World Tour; and he is proud Adrian Mitchell wrote the title role in his THE PIED PIPER for him at the Royal National Theatre.

 He is currently filming his memoir,  WHO IS THE REAL McCOY, with Film Stories to be released later this year.

Our crowdfunding campaign for the series will be launched in the coming weeks and you’ll be invited to be involved!

New Preview For The Cult of Many Faces!

Isla (Reanne Farley) tries to keep her wolf daughter, Sorcha (Lily McGuire) safe. Photo Credit: Stills by Emma

We are in post-production with our first ever vertical interpretation of the “Cops and Monsters” omniverse with a 6 part series “Cops and Monsters: The Cult of Many Faces”.

When the First Minister of Scotland agrees to give asylum to the vampire, werewolf and zombie community after an incident leaves them exposed to humanity for the first time, it’s up to the representatives from the werewolf and vampire communities to come together and agree on the treaty.

Except… they can’t stand each other! Isla – the Alpha Wolf – believes Finlay – the Vampire Leader – to be arrogant and flouting the rules – whilst Finlay believes Isla to be self righteous and below him.

The Cult of Many Faces – played by Billy Kirkwood

Enter The Cult of Many Faces – a man (or beast?) who is a fixed point in time. Ancient and forever, he likes to keep an eye on the progress of humanity and the supernatural communities. But when Isla and Finlay ask him to mediate their agreement of the asylum treaty, they realise far too late that the Cult has the unusual ability of speaking your most intrusive thoughts.

Chaos… and truths will be laid bare.

We are currently in post-production with our series and we cannot wait to release it out into the world… and hopefully make a few more episodes!

Cops and Monsters Kickstarter – Stretch Goals

With your help and support we have now hit our goal of £1500 on our Kickstarter page, allowing us to pay our 6 writers, visual effects artist, composer and graphic artist.

Thank you to everybody who helped us get there.

Our Kickstarter campaign is running until February 28th, with no money taken until that date, so we have decided to set up 6 stretch goals that will help us shoot and edit our brand new series.

Click this link to visit our Kickstarter page and pledge if you can.

Cops and Monsters – Series 2 Title Announcement

Cops and Monsters series 2 is officially in pre-production and we can announce that it will be called “Uprising”.

Comprising of 6 new 20 minute episodes, we’ll be launching our Kickstarter campaign to raise £1500 between February 1st and February 28th, offering various perks from £1 to £1000.

This weekend we’ll be announcing who our 6 writers will be, and if we hit our Kickstarter campaign we’ll be able to commission them to write the new series.

For up to date information on series 2, click this link.

In the meantime you can catch up on series 1 on Amazon Prime UK and US.