User blog comment:Paul.rea/Teen Wolf News 031715/@comment-75.82.117.155-20150319022649

Yes every actor has a SAG/AFTRA contract, even extras and day players work on contracts. I'm referring to series regulars who are contractually obligated to be on the show. On Teen Wolf those are ONLY the series regulars that appear in the opening titles. While all the other actors do in fact have contracts  these contracts you refer to are negotiated to arrive at a per episode salary, billing, and number of episode guarantee. They do NOT contractually  tie the actor to the series. Yes the actors you mentioned were nehgotiating contracts when they left, but the contracts were about what their per episode salary would be, and number of episode guarantee, they were not series regular contracts that obligated them to be on the show or they would not have been able to leave the show without productions blessing. Again, MTV pays very poorly compared to the other networks or even CW, that is why you see actors fleeing "Teen Wolf" more than you see it happening on other shows. Getting the actors cheaply is exactly why they do NOT sign them to binding series regular contracts as most other networks do which require a much higher per episode salary. I repeat, Daniel Sharman, Colton Haynes and The Carver Twins were never series regulars or on contracts that bound them exclusively to "Teen Wolf". They were all offered higher paying jobs elsewhere and they all left. I DO know where I'm getting my information and I DO know how it works and it is all quite accurate. I'm not trying to argue, just explain to the people who watch the show and visit this site that the show doesn't just get rid of popular characters for no good reason or lie about an actors involvement in the show or not. It's Hollywood and ultimately it always comes down to money. So when asked about an actors involvement there isn't always an easy black and white answer without getting into a lengthy and boring discussion about contract negotiations and money issues and an actors desire to do other things. You seem to like to cast aspersions towards Jeff Davis who is neither lying nor dispensing with fan favorite characters just to be a dick, he is simply trying to creatively deal with cast defections for greener pastures. He doesn't control the purse strings, MTV and Viacom do.