The news just keeps rolling in today! BAFTA award winning writer Laura Anderson has joined our team and will be writing the 5th episode, following James T Harding’s “Revolution in a Teacup”.

Laura Anne Anderson is an Edinburgh based writer with a Masters in Screenwriting from Screen Academy Scotland. Her screenwriting includes the short films ‘Ladies Who Lunch’ and ‘We All Fall Down’, sketches for BAFTA award winning series 3 of CBBC show ‘OOglies’, and a feature film currently in development.

Laura is also an actor for the stage and screen, a journalist, and a writer of games, stories and novels. Her debut novel, a dark science fiction book for young adults, will be published later in 2016.

‘I am thrilled to be part of team Cops and Monsters, and think that the cast and crew of the series are doing amazing things for the genre and the Scottish screen community. It’s also a real pleasure to be able to write for something with such an amazing fan base, and I can’t wait to sink my teeth into the episode.’

We will reveal more about Laura’s upcoming episode in due course!

Our script editor James T Harding was earlier announced as the writer of our next episode, “Revolution in a Teacup”, which we will be crowdfunding to produce in May, aiming to shoot over 2 days in July.

Our latest episode, “In Crimson”, is currently in post-production and we hope to make it available in May online to watch!

In the meantime we’d like to whet your appetite with the opening titles of the episode by Gareth Knight! You can watch them below:

We are currently in pre-production of the next instalment, “Revolution in a Teacup”, which will see Sophie Aldred, Rachel Teate and Mhairi Calvey guest star alongside our series regulars. Crowdfunding will begin once we launch our latest episode throughout May and June, shooting this July in Glasgow.

Volume 1 comprises of “The New Recruit“, “In Crimson“, “Revolution in a Teacup” and two more, currently untitled episodes. “Preparing the Weapon” acts as a prequel to The New Recruit.

We’ve had a bit of an episode re-shuffle! Here is the viewing order of Cops and Monsters:

Episode 0 – Original Pilot
Episode 1 – The New Recruit
Episode 2 – Preparing The Weapon
Episode 3 – In Crimson (Coming Soon!)
Episode 4 – Revolution in a Teacup (In Pre-Production)
Episode 5 – TBC
Episode 6 – TBC
Episode 7 – Astrid’s Secret (Spin-off episode by Roland Moore)
Episode 8 – TBC (Spin-off episode by Hannah George)

We hope to shoot our remaining episodes within the next 12 months, and will be seeking to do this via crowdfunding.

Episode 4, “In Crimson”, is officially wrapped!

After 2 days of filming, support from everybody who backed our Kickstarter campaign, and an extremely hard working cast and crew, we have finished filming episode 4 of our series.

Cast and crew worked tirelessly over two days to get all of our scenes filmed so we can now send them to our editor, Anne Nicholson, who will cut together the episode. Then it will be sent to Robert Newth who will add and mix in sound effects and compose the music as our visual effects artist Gareth Knight creates the effects to build into our near-future, sci-fi world.

Unfortunately due to unforeseen family issues, Sophie Aldred was unable to film her scenes, and as such, Scottish actress Karen Bartke replaced Sophie on the day. Karen is a long-time collaborator with the team and recently starred in the BBC Scotland comedy, “Scot Squad”. Karen has also just recently won awards for her work on BBC Radio Scotland, details of which can be found here.

Sophie will now be starring in episode 5, which we hope will go into production in July, crowdfunding depending.

We will be posting updates on our progress and we hope that episode 4 will be available to watch online by the end of April/beginning of May. We will be sharing official behind the scenes stills and video between now and the release of the episode on our site, Twitter and Facebook.

Yesterday we officially kicked off filming on episode 4 of Cops and Monsters!

Cast members Kenny Boyle (Martin Carmichael) and Billy Kirkwood (The Cult of Many Faces) met for the first time as they filmed their scenes together for the episode on a quiet road in Partick, Glasgow.

New makeup artists Leah and Nadia joined us to make some gruesome makeup work on one of our stars while we worked out and filmed the scenes.

Our photographer Sonja was snapping away with a mix of publicity and behind the scenes stills and we will be sharing them with you soon.

Claire our producer has been working extremely hard to work within our budget to make sure costumes, makeup, props (and lunch for the crew!) is organised for next weekend’s shoot where we will be introducing new cast member Innes Anderson (Alexis) into the world of Cops and Monsters.

We’re cutting together a little teaser from yesterday’s footage and will have it online shortly!

Until next time…