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Cops and Monsters: Uprising – New Kickstarter Launching August 1st!

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On August 1st we will be launching a Kickstarter campaign to shoot Laura Anne Anderson’s new episode of Cops and Monsters: Uprising.

The latest episode written by Laura, her 2nd so far in the entire run of episodes, is titled “Bad Moon Rising”:

“A Monster roams a supernatural zone, mutilating and eating anyone it finds. Alexis is tormented by a vision of The Cult of Many Faces, and worries that her confinement is driving her to madness. Maya battles hostile SPIDERS colleagues and a bigoted new directive from sleazy Minister Clark in her mission to uphold the law. When an old acquaintance ambushes Maya outside SPIDERS HQ, desperately seeking her help, things go from bad to worse.

Werewolf therapist Jenny Connor is badly shaken – she was part of a programme aimed at helping supernaturals, and something has gone terribly wrong. A Monster has been unleashed – THE Monster.

Distrusting SPIDERS and with nobody else to turn to, Jenny enlists Maya and Alexis to help her find the Monster and put an end to the violence. The group travel to Zone 3, the Werewolf ghetto, to investigate.

Between the full moon, Maya’s split loyalties, The Cult’s hounding of Alexis, and a dark secret kept by Jenny, it’ll be a wonder if they make it out of Zone 3 alive.”

We’ll be attempting to raise £3360 – which will allow us to pay our cast, crew, post production, props, editing, sound design, music, makeup, catering and more – offering signed scripts, DVDs, cast photos, walk on roles in the new episode, associate producer credits, producer credits, executive producer credits on IMDb, and more. This will be our last attempt to fund our next episode. We have 5 scripts left to film – written by Simon Underwood, James T Harding, Philip Lawrence and Fraser Coull. All episodes we manage to film will be streamed on Amazon Prime US, UK and Amazon Instant Video.

If you’d like to support our new series but would prefer to pledge to us monthly you can join us on Patreon instead. Click this link to find out more.

Below you can watch all the available free episodes of Cops and Monsters. To watch the rest please visit us on Amazon Prime!

“Remembrance: Series 2 Episode 1”

“The New Recruit: Series 1 Episode 1”

“In Crimson: Series 1 Episode 3”

“Trapped: Series 1 Spin Off Minisode”

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Cops and Monsters: Series 2 News

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Just a little update for all of our Cops and Monsters fans and supporters!

Laura Anne Anderson, James T Harding, Simon Underwood, Philip Lawrence and Fraser Coull have all turned in their episodes for series 2. At the moment we have shot scenes from all episodes apart from episode 5. This was due to our successful crowdfunding campaign for Debbie Moon’s opening episode, “Remembrance”.

Our current plan is to raise a small amount of money either on our Drip page or Patreon. If we raise £300 then we can afford to run an extensive marketing and PR campaign to spread the word of our current available episodes and help us raise awareness of the show and funding to complete our next 5 episodes, finishing series 2. If you’d like to help us do this, then please visit Drip or Patreon to find out more.

We’ve also set up a GOFUND me page at this link to help us raise the £300 for our PR campaign.

All 8 episodes of series 1 can be watched on Amazon Prime Video HERE and Amazon Instant Video. It’s also available on Social Screen by clicking here. Our opening episode of series 1 and our spin off minisode, “Trapped” can be watched for free above.

You can also watch episode 1 of series 2, “Remembrance”, by Debbie Moon below:

We’ve also got a preview of “Bad Moon Rising” by Laura Anne Anderson which you can watch below. If you’d like to help us fund the episode please visit our Patreon or Drip pages to get involved.

Once we’ve raised the £300 needed, we can start our marketing campaign before launching our new Kickstarter campaign to raise the £4000 required to shoot our new 20 minute episode.

From episode 2 onwards we’ll be introducing Scottish actress and River City star Louise McMenemy to our cast, as werewolf activist Ava McIntyre. You can find out more about Louise’s character in her interview:

Please do keep spreading the word of the show so we can continue to make our 2nd series. With your help we can bring it to life!

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Bad Moon Rising – Kickstarter Now Live!

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We have until March 15th to raise £5000 on Kickstarter to allow us to make our next episode of “Cops and Monsters: Uprising.”

Written by Laura Anne Anderson, “Bad Moon Rising” is the 2nd episode of series 2 and our 10th episode in total.

“A Monster roams a supernatural zone, mutilating and eating anyone it finds. Alexis is tormented by a vision of The Cult of Many Faces, and worries that her confinement is driving her to madness. Maya battles hostile SPIDERS colleagues and a bigoted new directive from sleazy Minister Clark in her mission to uphold the law. When an old acquaintance ambushes Maya outside SPIDERS HQ, desperately seeking her help, things go from bad to worse.

Werewolf therapist Jenny Connor is badly shaken – she was part of a programme aimed at helping supernaturals, and something has gone terribly wrong. A Monster has been unleashed – THE Monster.

Distrusting SPIDERS and with nobody else to turn to, Jenny enlists Maya and Alexis to help her find the Monster and put an end to the violence. The group travel to Zone 3, the Werewolf ghetto, to investigate.

Between the full moon, Maya’s split loyalties, The Cult’s hounding of Alexis, and a dark secret kept by Jenny, it’ll be a wonder if they make it out of Zone 3 alive.”

Whilst we were filming Debbie Moon’s opening episode, “Remembrance“, we were also able to film scenes from episodes 2, 3, 4 and 6 as we were set up in our office location and Alexis’ hideout location. As such we can now present to you an unfinished edit from our new episode above.

Episode 1 can be watched below:

“Bad Moon Rising” will see the return of our regulars: Innes Anderson, Ellen Patterson, Stephen Purdon, Chris Bain and Helen Cuinn. River City star Louise McMenemy will make her debut as werewolf and Uprising activist Ava McIntyre.

Nina and the Neurons/Molly and Mac star Katrina Bryan shall be returning as tortured werewolf Jenny Connor. This will be Katrina’s 3rd appearance on our show. You can see Katrina in action in our spin-off minisode, “Trapped”:

Over on our Kickstarter campaign you can grab perks such as signed scripts, DVDs of series 1 and episodes 1 and 2 of series 2, blu-rays, props, signed cast photos, posters, artwork, set visits, the chance to be a MONSTER in an upcoming episode and producer credits on IMDb and Amazon Prime.

We can only make the show with YOUR help and continued support.

Visit https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nightisdaymovie/cops-and-monsters-uprising-bad-moon-rising to check out the perks on offer and help us bring this new episode to life.

All 8 episodes of series 1 are available on Amazon Prime and Social Screen.

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Happy 2019 – Looking to the Year Ahead!

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Happy 2019 from all of us here at Cops and Monsters! We can’t wait to get back into the swing of things.

2018 was a wonderful year as we crowdfunded the funds needed to hire our 6 writers for “Uprising” – including Debbie Moon, Laura Anne Anderson, James T Harding, Simon Underwood and Philip Lawrence. Series creator Fraser Coull will also be returning to pen the series finale.

We also successfully crowdfunded our first episode, “Remembrance”, written by Wolfblood creator and BAFTA winner Debbie Moon. Ellen Patterson, Innes Anderson, Billy Kirkwood and Chris Bain all returned from series 1 and were joined by River City stars Stephen Purdon and Barbara Rafferty. Stephen joined us new series regular, playing Private Colin Jack Bissett, while his co-star, Louise McMenemy, will be joining us as werewolf activist Ava McIntyre from episode 2 onwards. Scottish actresses Helen Cuinn also joined as as SPIDERS commander Frances Stone. Bill McBain also joined us as loving husband turned zombie, Connor, in episode 1.

Due to our crowdfunding success early last year, we were able to fund a 3 day shoot – meaning that all SPIDERS office scenes and Alexis’ hideout scenes throughout the six episodes, could be filmed over two days. With the 3rd day left to film the rest of Debbie’s opening episode. Additional scenes from episodes 2, 3, 4 and 6 were shot over the first block of filming.

We are in the early stages of planning our next crowdfunding campaign, which will be to raise the £5,000 necessary for a 2 day shoot to finish episode 2, “Bad Moon Rising”, by Laura Anne Anderson. Ideally we’ll be launching in the middle of February, running for a month, allowing us to shoot the episode in April. The closer we get to £25,000 then the more of our remaining 5 episodes can be filmed this year. The money we raise goes to paying our cast and crew, locations, makeup, special effects, music, editing, sound design and editing, costumes, travel, accommodation and most importantly… food for the team!

On the 15th, 16th and 17th of February we will be in Scotland’s capital for Capital Sci-Fi Con 2019 to promote the series and screen some of our episodes, where we will hopefully find more supporters and more of an audience to get behind us.

“Bad Moon Rising”, our 2nd episode by Laura Anne Anderson, will be our 10th episode in total:

“A Monster roams a supernatural zone, mutilating and eating anyone it finds. Alexis is tormented by a vision of The Cult of Many Faces, and worries that her confinement is driving her to madness. Maya battles hostile SPIDERS colleagues and a bigoted new directive from sleazy Minister Clark in her mission to uphold the law. When an old acquaintance ambushes Maya outside SPIDERS HQ, desperately seeking her help, things go from bad to worse.

Werewolf therapist Jenny Connor is badly shaken – she was part of a programme aimed at helping supernaturals, and something has gone terribly wrong. A Monster has been unleashed – THE Monster.

Distrusting SPIDERS and with nobody else to turn to, Jenny enlists Maya and Alexis to help her find the Monster and put an end to the violence. The group travel to Zone 3, the Werewolf ghetto, to investigate.

Between the full moon, Maya’s split loyalties, The Cult’s hounding of Alexis, and a dark secret kept by Jenny, it’ll be a wonder if they make it out of Zone 3 alive.”

Louise McMenemy will make her debut in our show, and we hope that Katrina Bryan will also return to her role of Jenny Connor – which will be her 3rd time in the role. You can see Katrina in action as Jenny in our minisode, “Trapped”, below:

Prior to our Kickstarter launch you can of course help us in other ways – either via Patreon, Drip on Kickstarter, Sponsorship or private funding. To find out more click on this link.

Here’s to a successful 2019 and hopefully even more Cops and Monsters for you all to enjoy!

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How To Watch All The Episodes

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It’s never been easier to watch Cops and Monsters!

Series 1 – which consists of 8 episodes, running for 240 minutes in total, can be watched on Amazon Prime UK, US or Amazon Instant Video. It can also be watched via Social Screen!

Click HERE to watch Cops and Monsters on Social Screen

Click HERE to watch Cops and Monsters on Amazon Prime/Instant Video

Series 2 is currently in production and episode 1 is free to watch below:

And if you enjoyed watching episode 1 and wish to help us make more, you can head to our Kickstarter campaign at this link. We have until November 29th to reach at least £4000 to produce episode 2.

We are also on Drip – where you can select a monthly amount to pledge to the show (which can be cancelled at any time) – to find out more click here.

Or you can join us on Patreon – which works very similarly to Drip, but is more US focused. Click here to find out more.

Fancy sponsoring the show to help us make even more episodes and be featured in them? Click here.

Or are you just super generous and want to donate to us via PayPal so we can make episodes 2-6 of series 2? Click here.

With your help we can make more episodes of series 2 but we can only do it with YOUR help.

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Watch the brand new episode of Cops and Monsters: Uprising Now

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We are pleased to present to you the very first episode of Cops and Monsters: Uprising. You can watch the episode below:

All 8 episodes of Cops and Monsters series 1 is available to watch right now on Amazon Prime UK, US and Amazon Instant Video. Click here to find out more.

The Kickstarter campaign to shoot episode 2, written by Laura Anne Anderson, has also officially launched at this link and will run until the 29th of November. Help us raise at least £4000 so we can shoot our brand new episode. Click here to find out more and to help us make our next episode.

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Cops and Monsters Series 2 Screening – Tickets on Sale Now

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We’ll be premiering the series 2 opening episode, “Remembrance”, on the 24th of October 7.30pm in Glasgow’s city centre.

Cast, crew and special guests will be in attendance as we screen the new 20 minute episode, followed by drinks with the team.

If you’d like to join us we have a very limited number of tickets available at this link.

Sonja Blietschau took photos of the team at MCM Comic Con Scotland this September as we hosted two panels to promote the show over the weekend. Here are some of the pictures:

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Series 2 Update!

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Series 2 is officially in production and this update will let you know what’s happening!

If you’ve not caught up on series 1 yet, head over to Amazon Prime/Amazon Instant Video to watch the first 8 episodes of our show, or visit our YouTube Channel to watch previews, behind the scenes, trailers and more!

What’s Series 2 About?

Cops and Monsters: Uprising follows on a year after the events of series 1. Maya Hedges (Ellen Patterson) has returned from her journey of self discovery with wanted werewolf and assassin Alexis Smith (Innes Anderson), who is MIA after being linked to multiple murders and the assassination of Vampire Leader, Lady Audrey MacDairmid (Sophie Aldred). The Paranormal Investigation Team Scotland has been shut down by Minister of Justice Jonathan Clark (Chris Bain) and has been replaced by the SPIDERS (SuPernatural IDentification Executive Regiment Scotland), a much more militant police force in charge of policing the supernatural community.

Maya is assigned to a SPIDERS “buddy”, Private Colin Jack Bissett (Stephen Purdon) by Major Frances Stone (Helen Cuinn), who hopes that with the help of former PITS officers they can quickly get to grips with dealing with the supernatural community on a day-to-day basis.

Meanwhile a supernatural rights group, The Uprising, lead by werewolf Ava McIntyre (Louise McMenemy) is planning an attack on those who oppose the supernatural way of life, and she knows just the werewolf to spearhead their cause.

What’s Happening With Series 2?

We’ve hired 6 writers to pen 6 x 20 minute episodes, each with it’s own story acting as a “case of the week” with an series long arc running through the episodes. To find out more about each of our writers, click this link. Joining us for series 2 are Debbie Moon, Laura Anne Anderson, James T Harding, Simon Underwood, Philip Lawrence and series creator Fraser Coull. Shannon Eden joins us as assistant script editor.

Debbie’s opening episode, “Remembrance”, has been funded successfully and we shot it over 3 days – as well as scenes from other episodes where possible.

The episode is currently in post-production and we hope to release it on Amazon Prime by October 2018.

A prequel minisode, “Day One”, has been released to set up our new series:

We are now trying to raise funds to shoot episodes 2-6, which you can help us do so by clicking on this link. Until we reach at least £4000 we are unable to make any more episodes.

Who Is In Series 2?

Returning from series 1 is Ellen Patterson, Innes Anderson, Billy Kirkwood and Chris Bain.

Joining them as series regulars are Stephen Purdon (River City), Louise McMenemy (River City) and Helen Cuinn.

We are also planning on bringing back guest stars Katrina Bryan, Sophie Aldred, Leona Kate Vaughan, Rachel Teate, Victoria Gibson and some new faces. This is all funding dependent!

River City/Rab C Nesbitt/Hamish MacBeth legend Barbara Rafferty guest stars as Heather Tulloch alongside Bill McBain as her zombie husband Connor Tulloch, in our opening episode, “Remembrance.”

The more money we raise, the bigger the guest stars we can approach for the remaining 5 episodes of series 2!

When Will You Finish Making Series 2?

It’s all down to when we can raise the funds. Ideally we need around £25,000 to produce the remaining 5 episodes. This will pay for our actors, crew, expenses, equipment, catering, makeup, special effects makeup, locations, props, costumes, petrol/travel, hotels when necessary, editing, visual effects, sound design and music.

At the moment you can click on this link which will take you to our IndieGoGo campaign which is running until the 26th of September.

You can also click on this link to find out about donating to our show via PayPal or becoming a sponsor.

Finally you can become a Patreon of Cops and Monsters and help us make our brand new episode. Click here to find out more.

Great! How Can I Be Kept Up to Date?

You can follow us on Twitter, Like us on Facebook and even follow us on Instagram!

Thanks! Do You Have Any More Series 2 Photos?

Yes, we we do…

 

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Cops and Monsters: Uprising Episode 1 Teaser

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Check out the teaser for our brand new upcoming episode “Remembrance”, written by BAFTA winner and Wolfblood creator Debbie Moon.

Starring Ellen Patterson, Billy Kirkwood, Innes Anderson, Chris Bain and Stephen Purdon. Guest starring Helen Cuinn, Barbara Rafferty and Billy McBain.

We hope to premiere the episode at MCM Comic Con Scotland in late September.

The Kickstarter to fund episode 2 will officially launch on August 1st but you can get early access to it now at this link.