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 Teen Wolf News 082714



 Why no Teen Wolf in the UK?

This is just weird to me. VIACOM, parent company of MTV, now owns UK broadcaster Channel 5 and ITV (Britain’s oldest commercial broadcaster) now owns DiGa Vision which is one of the production companies that puts out Teen Wolf.

Then how is it that one of the most globally popular products produced by the owner of Channel 5 isn’t on Channel 5?

Why isn’t ITV offering a show it now partially owns?

I don’t know the ins and outs of the international copyright issues involved in Teen Wolf. Perhaps the tangle of red tape is just too dense. Perhaps international distribution remains in the hands of MGM which owns the Teen Wolf brand. I just don’t know.

It simply makes no sense with so many cross-Atlantic connections this show can’t find a home in the UK.

 Ratings Blah

Moving Teen Wolf to Sunday did nothing discernible for the ratings.

Monstrous scored the lowest initial broadcast numbers of all the Season 4 episodes.

A million or so people watched the repeat on MTV Monday at 10PM.

If you add those together you get a respectable 2.4 million US viewers – but you can’t really do that because some of the viewers watched both times and that’s not how the ratings system works in this country.

I’ve seen a bunch of theories on why the show is dropping so suddenly –

Fandom Boycott
There are, theoretically, enough superfans to put a dent in the ratings. If they all got pissed off and stopped watching we’d see some drop, but I don’t think it would be as big or inconsistent as what we’re seeing this season.

Too Much Teen Wolf
We’ve had 34 episodes presented to us within 12 months. Part of the show’s appeal was the painful anticipation of waiting 8 months between episodes. The overload of episodes also gives the impression that everything is happening really fast. When this block of episodes started, Boyd and Erica were still part of our world. Now, less than a year later, half the main cast never met them.

Too Many Flaws
The cells of the human body are constantly replaced by new cells. As you’re reading this about 50 million new cells popped into existence in your body. Unfortunately, with that much creation going on, mistakes get made. If you get too many flawed replications, you get cancer. One might argue that the flaws in Teen Wolf (timeline, character, and mythology development) have reached that critical cancerous mass.

While watching individual episodes is still fun and entertaining – enjoying the show as a whole has become impossible because it simply makes no linear sense anymore. I imagine binge watching all the seasons makes the cancer painfully obvious.

The Ratings Drop is just Bad Reporting
All of the above theories have merit but when it comes down to why the ratings dropped, you have to look at the antiquated system of audience measurement in the US as the most likely culprit.

They still haven’t figured out how to accurately and consistently quantify viewing of shows on anything other than a traditional TV. Currently they only count folks who watch Teen Wolf when it airs live at 10PM on Monday or via DVR before 3AM Tuesday.

When I say “they” I mean advertisers who pay for the programing. If you’re not watching their commercials, you don’t count and folks who time delay tend to skip their commercials.

Whatever the cause – the audience for Season 4 is officially 16% below Season 3.

 Speaking of the Timeline

More printed material on screen means more continuity nonsense.

This time they outdid themselves. They placed contradicting timelines all in one document.

Take a close look at Meredith’s medical chart –



According to this flawed prop, she was born in 1998 and admitted to the hospital in 2009 at the age of 16.

I shouldn’t have to explain this but, judging by the responses I’m getting on Tumblr, maybe I better.

A person born in November of 1998 would turn 11 in November of 2009. This person would still be 11 in December of 2009 when she is admitted to the hospital. There is no way, short of time travel, that Meredith would be 16 in the scenes shown IF she were born in 1998.

The document has to be thrown out altogether for any of this to make sense.

There is also the dialog problem with Lydia saying Peter and Meredith were both in the hospital “right after the fire” but that’s only a continuity error if Meredith’s file is correct. It’s not correct; therefore, these scenes could be taking place any time after the fire.

The tumblr crowd says maybe they’re doing this on purpose – either to f*(k us or as part of some elaborate plot twist. I just think they don’t think. There is no one in charge of continuity over at Teen Wolf HQ and we’re paying the price for that weekly.

 Posey's Dad

Thanks to Teen Wolf Wikia user Abomiwitz we picked up on this interview from Tyler Posey.



Posey lets slip that his real life father, actor John Posey, is returning to Teen Wolf. More details on the character and his past appearances are up now in our Teen Wolf Wiki Forums.