Psi Cops

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Psi Cops
Genre Adult animation
Created byBart Batchelor
Chris Nielsen
Voices ofBart Batchelor
Chris Nielsen
Tina Grant
Theme music composerVirginia Kilbertus
Opening theme"Psi Cops Theme"
Ending theme"Psi Cops Theme" (instrumental)
Country of originCanada
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes24
Production
Executive producersBart Batchelor
Chris Nielsen
David Alpert
Chris Ferguson
Brian Kavanaugh-Jones
Catherine Winder
Robert Kirkman
Jonas Diamond
ProducersKrista Kelloway
Sophie Caird
Animator Smiley Guy Studios
Running time11 minutes
Production companies
Original release
Network
ReleaseJune 5, 2023 (2023-06-05) 
present (present)

Psi Cops (French: Psi Cops: Escouade Paranormale) is a Canadian adult animated television series that premiered on Adult Swim in Canada on June 5, 2023. The series is created by and starring Bart Batchelor and Chris Nielsen, who previously hosted Night Sweats and co-created the web series World Doctors and Daddy and the Big Boy for Mondo Media. Psi Cops is the first original series made specifically for the Canadian Adult Swim network, as previous originals were initially made for either Teletoon at Night or Télétoon la nuit.

Contents

The series follows Kydd (Nielsen) and Felixx (Batchelor), the top detectives at the paranormal investigation agency Psi Cops, solving supernatural mysteries in spite of their overall incompetence. The series was later picked up by the American Adult Swim block which began airing the show on July 8, 2024. [1] The series has yet to be renewed for a second season.

Psi Cops is produced by Wind Sun Sky Entertainment, Skybound Galactic and Oddfellows Labs in association with Corus Entertainment, with animation support by Smiley Guy Studios. Sony Pictures Television serves as a distributor to the series.

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Episodes

Psi Cops season 1 episodes
No.
overall
No. in
season
TitleWritten byOriginal air dateAmerican air date
11"Alien Autopsy"Bart Batchelor & Chris NielsenJune 5, 2023 (2023-06-05)July 8, 2024
22"Bloody Mary"Bart Batchelor, Chris Nielsen & Christine BortolinJune 5, 2023 (2023-06-05)July 15, 2024
33"Breeder"Bart Batchelor & Chris NielsenJune 12, 2023 (2023-06-12)July 15, 2024
44"Small Townies"Bart Batchelor & Chris NielsenJune 12, 2023 (2023-06-12)July 22, 2024
55"Faith Healer"Bart Batchelor & Chris NielsenJune 19, 2023 (2023-06-19)July 22, 2024
66"Mutant Snake"Bart Batchelor & Chris NielsenJune 19, 2023 (2023-06-19)July 29, 2024
77"Shape Shifter"Bart Batchelor & Chris NielsenJune 26, 2023 (2023-06-26)July 29, 2024
88"Chupacabra"Bart Batchelor & Chris NielsenJune 26, 2023 (2023-06-26)August 5, 2024
99"The Facility"Bart Batchelor & Chris NielsenJuly 3, 2023 (2023-07-03)July 8, 2024
1010"Kyddnapped"Bart Batchelor & Chris NielsenJuly 3, 2023 (2023-07-03)August 5, 2024
1111"Crop Circles"Bart Batchelor & Chris NielsenJuly 10, 2023 (2023-07-10)August 12, 2024
1212"Invisible Man"Bart Batchelor, Chris Nielsen & Nima GholamipourJuly 10, 2023 (2023-07-10)August 12, 2024
1313"Paperwork"Bart Batchelor & Chris NielsenJuly 17, 2023 (2023-07-17)August 19, 2024
1414"Old Witchy Hag"Bart Batchelor & Chris NielsenJuly 17, 2023 (2023-07-17)August 19, 2024
1515"Monster Under the Bed"Bart Batchelor & Chris NielsenJuly 24, 2023 (2023-07-24)August 26, 2024
1616"The Shadows of Death"Bart Batchelor & Chris NielsenJuly 24, 2023 (2023-07-24)August 26, 2024
1717"Illuminaughty"Bart Batchelor & Chris NielsenAugust 7, 2023 (2023-08-07)September 2, 2024
1818"Stake Out"Bart Batchelor & Chris NielsenAugust 7, 2023 (2023-08-07)September 2, 2024
1919"The Djinn"Bart Batchelor & Chris NielsenAugust 14, 2023 (2023-08-14)September 9, 2024
2020"Poppet"Bart Batchelor & Chris NielsenAugust 14, 2023 (2023-08-14)September 9, 2024
2121"Murder House"Bart Batchelor & Chris NielsenAugust 21, 2023 (2023-08-21)September 16, 2024
2222"Undead Soldier"Bart Batchelor & Chris NielsenAugust 21, 2023 (2023-08-21)September 16, 2024
2323"The Cave - Part 1"Bart Batchelor & Chris NielsenAugust 28, 2023 (2023-08-28)September 23, 2024
2424"The Cave - Part 2"Bart Batchelor & Chris NielsenAugust 28, 2023 (2023-08-28)September 23, 2024

Production

The series was first pitched after David Alpert, the CEO of Skybound Entertainment, discovered World Doctors and asked creators Bart Batchelor and Chris Nielsen for a "genre" version of the series. The duo pitched several ideas before hitting on the idea of "[ The X-Files'] Mulder and Scully, but replaced with two morons." Batchelor states that it took 6 years from those initial pitches for the series to be officially greenlit by Corus. [3]

Scripts for the series are unusually long, with Batchelor stating that he and Nielsen can write as much as 45 pages for a single 11 minute episode's script, before trimming it down to around 26 or 27 pages. The show's animation is produced by Smiley Guy Studios in Toronto, using a mix of Daz 3D, Adobe After Effects, and Adobe Animate to animate fully 3D models mainly on a 2D plane that can be turned into full 3D for action scenes. [4]

Broadcast

Psi Cops premiered on Adult Swim in Canada on June 4, 2023, with two back-to-back episodes at 12:30 a.m. ET, and it was available on the Global app and the StackTV package on Amazon Prime Video. [5] It also premiered on the Télétoon la nuit block on Télétoon under the title Psi Cops: Escouade Paranormale.

The series was first released in the United States on YouTube as part of the Throwback Toons channel (where it is no longer available), and later made a television debut on Cartoon Network's nighttime block Adult Swim at 12:00 a.m. ET on July 8, 2024. [1] It was also released exclusively on the Sony Liv streaming service in India. The distributor of the series was Sony Pictures Television.

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