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Cops and Monsters Audio Drama Series
Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
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To raise funds to hire actors, audio recording studio, director, technicians, composers and sound designers for our audio series.
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Vampires, werewolves and zombies... an audio series with EXTRA BITE!
"Cops and Monsters" is a supernatural police procedural drama series following the Paranormal Investigation Team Scotland (PITS!) as they police vampires, werewolves and zombies in a near future Scotland.
When the First Minister agrees to a peace treaty between the supernatural community looking to live amongst us in Scotland, they are placed into different zones in each city, and PITS are the first specialised police department created to keep both the human and supernatural community safe.
Created by Fraser Coull (Winner of "Best Screenplay" at the British Short Film Awards 2024) and produced/written by Emmy winner Roland Moore.
Creative Scotland have agreed to match pledges between £1 and £250 so your support will be DOUBLED when you make a pledge! Thank you to Creative Scotland for supporting our audio series.
We are raising funds to produce a brand new 6 part audio drama series set in the world of "Cops and Monsters" and we need your help.
Your support will allow us to achieve the following:
- Hiring a recording studio for our actors to record the scripts
- Hire the actors who we will cast in the main roles and guest starring roles throughout the series
- Bring in audio technicians to smoothly and professionally record our episodes
- Commission a sound designer to add foley and effects into the episodes
- Hire a composer to score the series
- Bring in a specialised audio drama producers B7 MEDIA to oversee the recordings
- Hire a behind the scenes photographer and filmmaker to capture the behind the scenes of the recording sessions for PR and marketing purposes
- Host the episodes on an audio drama platform and out into the world.
"Cops and Monsters" started life as a webseries produced from 2015 to 2018, with a total of 10 episodes being made. We eventually secured distribution on Amazon Prime and Plex in over 60 territories.
Guest stars included Sophie Aldred (Doctor Who), James Mackenzie (Raven), Leona Vaughan (Wolfblood), James Payton (Harry Potter), Katrina Bryan (Molly and Mack), Rachel Teate (Wolfblood) and Caitlin Blackwood (Doctor Who) to name just a few of our wonderful supporting cast.
We are now resurrecting the series as an audio drama alongside award winning production company B7 Media to tell a brand new story and bring "Cops and Monsters" to a brand new audience.
WHAT IS THE STORY?
In the sprawling urban landscape of Glasgow, Scotland, where zones segregate humans, vampires, werewolves, and zombies, the Paranormal Investigation Team Scotland (PITS) grapples with the delicate peace between these supernatural factions. Eve Mitchell, hiding a secret relationship with a werewolf, is forced to lead PITS as tensions rise within the team. Jack Stone, an ex-military member with a penchant for taking down "bad" supernaturals, clashes with Eve, while Alia Carmichael, the lone werewolf, faces prejudice within the team and the public as the first ever supernatural creature to be hired to the PITS, but yearns to prove her species' worth. Meanwhile, the tech-savvy Finn Campbell harbours a secret penchant for dangerous liaisons with underground werewolf fighting rings.
CAST SO FAR
(Photo by Dominic Mafham)
We are THRILLED that Doctor Who legend Sylvester McCoy has joined our audio series! Sylvester will be playing the role of Sir Malcolm Sinclair throughout the series.
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.
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.
Sophie will be returning to play vampire queen, Lady Audrey McDairmid in our audio series.
Scottish actor Simon Weir is returning to play the role of DCC Norris Fletcher in our audio series.
Simon Weir began his acting career with the Dorothy Paul Acting Studio in 1986 before gaining an NC Drama & Theatre Skills at Motherwell College.
His theatre work includes playing Sick Boy in Irvine Welsh’s PORNO at The Pleasance Edinburgh Fringe 2022, KIDNAPPED- UK Tour with Selladoor Theatre, LETTERS TO ABERLOUR - Scotland Tour with New Strides Theatre, SINGIN I’M NO A BILLY, HE’S A TIM - Scotland & Ireland Tours with Dapper Productions, CALIGARI and THE MERCHANT OF VENICE with The Arches Theatre Company, GLASGOW HARD TICKETS with The Gilded Balloon & Rubber Ear Productions as well as MOTHER GOOSE, ALADDIN, BEAUTY & THE BEAST and SLEEPING BEAUTY with Glasgow Arts and Cumbernauld Theatre.
Simon’s television work includes the series regular role of Paul Lafferty in HIGH ROAD, TAGGART, CASE HISTORIES and IN PLAIN SIGHT for STV, MONARCH OF THE GLEN, RIVER CITY, GLASGOW KISS, BLOOD OF THE CLANS, DOCTORS and GUILT for BBC, EMMERDALE and CRIME for ITV, PATRICK MELROSE for Sky Atlantic and OUTLANDER- BLOOD OF MY BLOOD for Starz/Sony.
His Feature Film work includes THE ACID HOUSE, POSTMORTEM (USA Feature), THE FOOTBALL FACTORY, A SPANKING IN PARADISE, 90 MINUTES, WIGILIA, FAST ROMANCE and TRAINSPOTTING 2 as well as Bollywood epics 83, SARDAR UDHAM, CAPGRAS and BHAI BHAI. He has appeared in over 100 films to date and Awards include Best Actor for REMNANTS -North West Horror Film Festival (2022) and Best Acting Award for THE LAST BAR - 48 Hour Film Festival (2014) and The Scotsman Fringe First Award for GLASGOW HARD TICKETS (1995).
OUR WRITERS
We have 6 amazing writers penning the first audio series of "Cops and Monsters: The Year of Peace".
Amelia Nashe
Amelia is a screenwriter based near Glasgow, with a background in poetry and short stories. She is an alumni of BBC Writersroom Scottish Voices 2020-21 and Glasgow Caledonian University’s Creative Skillset-accredited MA TV Fiction Writing course. She’s written and produced two short films – one award-winning, one made in lockdown, both streamable on indie SVoD Indie-Clips – with a third currently in post-production with Screen Scotland and GMAC as part of Little Pictures.
She has also written jokes for BBC Scotland’s Breaking the News and sketches for Glasgow-based all-female comedy collective Witsherface. She has worked in several industry roles, including Team Assistant on River City, Head of K Studios at sustainable development company and UN GC member K Enterprises and now Multiskilled Subtitler at Red Bee Media.
Amelia writes across a broad range of genres, but gravitates towards themes around mental illness, nature vs technology and childhood vs adult imagination.
Lorna King
Lorna King is a neurospicy Ghanaian-Scottish screenwriter and a graduate of Screen Academy Scotland.
Her short script EXOTIC won the Glasgow Short Film Festival pitch competition in 2019 and she was selected for the prestigious Less is More Scottish residency 2020 run by Le Groupe Ouest. Her short script HER MIDAS TOUCH was developed as part of the BFI/Screen Scotland Sharp Shorts scheme. It earned several laurels at competition, including reaching the Top Five scripts in the Shore Scripts Short Film Fund 2020 and is due for release this soon.
She is one of ITV Studios' Disabled Writers in Development for 2023, developing an original pilot for the network.
In 2022 Lorna wrote an original pilot under commission for Sky as part of the Youngs Film Foundation and delivered her first episode of RIVER CITY.
Lorna is represented by Steven Russell.
Philip Lawrence
Philip has a number of projects under option and being read by broadcasters including thrillers, comedy dramas and crime series and continues to develop new work for several production companies.
Philip has wrote for Eastenders and Doctors. He is currently writing a new Doctor Who Audio episode and an episode for an upcoming supernatural podcast drama series.
Lindz McLeod
Lindz McLeod is a queer, working-class, Scottish writer and poet who dabbles in the surreal. Her short prose has been published by Apex, Catapult, Pseudopod, and many more. Her longer work includes the award-winning short story collection TURDUCKEN (Spaceboy, 2023), as well as her books SUNBATHERS (Hedone Books, 2024), THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET (Harlequin, 2025), WE, THE DROWNING (Android Press, 2026), and the collaborative anthology AN HONOUR AND A PRIVILEGE (Stanchion, 2025).
Her work has been taught in schools, universities, and turned into avant-garde opera. She is a full member of the SFWA, the club president of the Edinburgh Writers' Club, and is currently studying for a PhD in Creative Writing.
Roland Moore
As well as winning an International Emmy Award for FALLEN (2025), Roland Moore’s work as a series creator, head writer and scriptwriter has won a Royal Television Award and a Broadcast Award. He’s also won a London Writers’ Award.
He works in a wide range of genres for film and television in the UK, Europe, New Zealand, America, and China. He created the BBC1 returning period drama series, LAND GIRLS and was the Head Writer on HUMANS for Endemol Shine China and Croton Media – making him one of the few UK writers to create series for both the BBC and China.
Currently, two new TV crime series have been optioned by Screen Sirens (Canada) and DCD Rights (UK). His feature film work includes 2:HRS and SUMMER CAN WAIT. He has written for Big Finish writing original audio dramas for their DOCTOR WHO, SPACE 1999, THE AVENGERS, STAR COPS and SURVIVORS ranges. As well as lecturing on creative writing, he was also a creative consultant for a vertical drama company, advising on adapting Chinese and Indian vertical dramas for the UK.
Roland has written extensively for children as well – with credits including PETER RABBIT (Nickelodeon), RASTAMOUSE (BBC), MEEOW (ITV) and WAYBULOO (BBC). He also wrote the family comedy film 2:HRS (2019).
And the final episode will be written by Fraser Coull. Fraser is best known for writing and producing the original "Cops and Monsters" series (2014-2018) Scottish superhero feature film "Night is Day" (2012) and the award winning Scottish fairytale short film "Faithful" (2025) which went onto gain qualification for the Oscars in 2026 and won BEST SCREENPLAY at the British Short Film Awards.
B7 MEDIA
We are delighted to be collaborating with award winning indie production company B7 Media on Cops and Monsters.
Andrew Mark Sewell and Helen Quigley will be working with us from B7 Media to produce and direct the 6 part series.
You can find out more about the wonderful work that B7 Media do on their website.
As we begin to secure our funding we will be able to hold casting sessions to cast our characters and our guest stars and we cannot wait to assemble our team.
We will of course post updates on our Crowdfunder, to our supporters and our social media accounts!
Some of the characters we'll be looking to cast are:
Eve Mitchell
Eve transferred to the Paranormal Investigation Team Scotland (PITS) at the request of her old boss, Detective Charles Sloan, after the First Minister of Scotland insisted that vampires, werewolves and zombies could live amongst humans albeit in their own personalised zones. Eve is tough, no nonsense and wants to present herself as a strong, confident leader, even if she's unsure of it herself.
Jack Stone
Ex-military, recovering alcoholic, he both struggles to fit into this new world of supernatural creatures but delights in the opportunity to take the bad ones down. He's got a crush on Eve, and the two often clash. Jack is very much a shoot first, ask questions later kind of guy.
Alia Carmichael
The only werewolf on the team. Alia knows she was only brought in to tick a diversity box, but as werewolves are seen as the lesser of the species, a bit more down on their luck, relying on manual labour to pay the bills, Alia sees this as a chance to show that werewolves have a place in society. She is sweet and sympathetic to other supernatural creatures and can help crack cases with her empathy, even if she's doubting her own abilities and fear of transforming into a full werewolf at the sight of a full moon, worrying she'll hurt her friends or setback the werewolf liberation's progress
Finn Campbell
The computer genius of the group. He's bookish and geeky, but he knows how to run the operation and comms for the team. He organises the missions, quickly deciding which weapons are best for taking down the right monster - vampire, werewolf or zombie. He secretly takes part in werewolf fighting rings, illegally, of course, hoping that his secret stays safe when a wolf joins his team.
Lady Audrey McDairmid
An immortal vampire queen who likes to pretend she's an old weak lady, but turn on her and she'll snap your neck and drink your blood before you even know what's going on. She is secretly researching the original zombie hive brain in the hope of creating a serum that will turn werewolves back into humans, leaving mortals exposed so in time she can corrupt them and rule humanity, making them their ultimate food source. Has she orchestrated the murder of the vampire, framing an innocent werewolf to stoke division between the humans and the supernaturals, in the hope of destabilising peace and causing mistrust between humans and werewolves?
WHAT DO I GET FOR MY MONEY?
In return for your support we're offering a wide range of perks including:
- Associate Producer: We'll credit you as Associate Producer in the credits, include you in our social media post and share updates as we go into production. We'll also send you the entire series to listen to prior to public release.
- Producer: We'll credit you as Producer in the credits, include you in our social media post and share updates as we go into production. You'll be able to join us on Zoom for one or two recording sessions. We'll also send you the entire series to listen to prior to public release and offer you a small speaking part in one of the episodes.
- Executive Producer: We'll credit you as Executive Producer in the credits, include you in our social media post and share updates as we go into production. We'll also send you the entire series to listen to prior to public release, offer you a speaking role in an episode, and join us for one of our recording sessions in the UK. We'll also offer a Zoom session with some of the key creative team for a Q and A.
- Early Access: Listen to the episodes prior to their public releases
- Be IN an episode: a small speaking part or a line or two in an episode.
- Named Character: We'll name one of our characters in an episode after you or a loved one
Come and join the undead army and be a part of our brand new audio drama series!
BONUS "COPS AND MONSTERS" LORE
If you've got this far and you'd like to know more about "Cops and Monsters" and the world we're building, then have a look!
At present order is maintained by dividing each city in Scotland. Glasgow is split into 6 ‘zones’. Each zone is protected with an advanced force field that is triggered by movement on the perimeter.
Access can only be cleared with approved ID cards.
0: Undomesticated zombies (category As and Bs) live free-range in this area.
1: Human areas such as the West End, Kelvinside, Maryhill which are closed to all supernatural creatures.
2: In zone-2 areas, all types of creature are allowed to mix together -- as long as they have ID certifying them to be non-dangerous. These are the centre of town, the river.
3: Werewolf ghetto.
4: Vampire ghetto.
5: The Restricted Zone. Nobody knows what’s in there.
All citizens have ID cards which give them permission to access the appropriate zones. Supernaturals are assigned code numbers that begin with ‘A’ for extremely dangerous creatures ‘B’ for mildly dangerous creatures, and ‘C’ for non-dangerous creatures. Humans take the prefix ‘H’.
All humans have access to zones 1-4 but at their own risk.
Werewolves are free to enter Zones 2 and 3 but they are only permitted in zone 4 with clearance from the vampire community leaders.
Privileged or high ranking vampires are permitted to enter zones 1-4 but working class vampires and children are only permitted in zone 2.
Zombies are not permitted to leave their designated zones and do not have ID cards.
The Deputy First Minister, Jonathan Clark is cracking down on ID cards and permissions for each supernatural community, encouraging humans to avoid zones 3 and 4.
Counterfeit/tampered with ID cards are rumoured to be rife in zone 2, allowing temporal access to zones 1-4.
Funding method
Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made by 4th September 2026 at 9:42am