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 Teen Wolf News 052516



 EDITORS NOTE:


 * EDITORS NOTE:This edition of Teen Wolf News is publishing late due to a widely circulating rumor that staff was forced to track down shortly before we were scheduled to publish Wednesday afternoon. The rumor is false and not worth mentioning but we apologize for the delay.

 Linden’s New Movie

While Linden Ashby’s new movie doesn’t look like a blockbuster, it does look like a campy bit of fun. Back in 2014 Teen Wolf News brought you some of the behind the scenes shots of Ashby from the set of Beta Test. The plot is similar to the movie Gamer (2009) but the sci-fi actioner features Ashby with a sword facing down Manu Bennett on a rooftop. It doesn’t look great but it looks cool.

 Cody’s Live Stream

As TWN reported last week, the appearance of Cody Christian’s chair on the Teen Wolf set suggested that the actor might be back for Season 6. The picture was quickly removed from the social media account that posted it. We then saw a concerted effort by anonymous sources to discredit the image as old or perhaps a fake. All this effort to deny what was essentially a weak premise only strengthened the impression that the PTB didn’t want the image to be seen or believed. This weekend, Cody did a social media live stream to talk to his fans. This too has been held up by those same anonymous sources as proof that he wasn’t on the Teen Wolf set. If you read what he actually said though, it is neither a confirmation nor a denial.
 * “I don’t want anyone to feel like I’m ignoring this question but I’m getting a lot of Teen Wolf-oriented questions. I’ve said this before in the past. You know? If there’s a story to be told that involves my character, then I will most definitely be back and that’s all that I can say about, you know. I don’t know but, if Theo is to be brought back, if there’s a story to be told that involves the character, I will most definitely be there hands down. I love everyone involved in the show and it’s such a … It’s been such an amazing experience thus far so.”

You can take that for what it is. It’s what he “can say” about Teen Wolf. The fact is we don’t know really if Cody is back or not. His chair was back on set this month but nobody has any real evidence that his butt was ever sitting in it.

 Jeff on Fake Jeff

Teen Wolf News spoke to Jeff Davis this week about yet another interview claiming the Teen Wolf showrunner said some ridiculous things. “Someone sent me a link to the interview I supposedly did. I’ll admit I’ve read some of my interviews and thought to myself ‘I don’t remember saying that,’ but this is a whole new level. It’s a total, one hundred percent fabrication.” Teen Wolf News has been reporting on the show for a while now (Since 2012) and is often called upon to debunk fake news reports. This last year though there’s this growing new phenomenon in which the purveyors of fake news create fake interviews with the show’s stars and creator Davis.

We saw a lot of this a few months ago from MoviePilot and, when TWN confronted them about it, their editor claimed they are not responsible for the user-created content on their site. Unfortunately for MP, their user-generated content is picked up by Google News and then quoted by the multitude of other purveyors of fake news that permeate the web so, as a result, MP is now just another unreliable source. Last week there was a new player in the fake news business. They even tried to peddle their trash on Teen Wolf Wikia but the site quickly deleted or disabled the links.

The interview was obviously fake, poorly written and on a badly constructed WordPress blog. The surprising thing about this particular amateurish piece of trash was how willing some of the mainstream press were to believe it. Teen Vogue reported it straight as if it were the word of God. Some radio outlets did the same. It even got to the point that a mostly legitimate news source, Digital Spy, actually put in a call to MTV about it (which is what journalists do, you know, check with sources before publishing). The network confirmed it was 100% fake.

<p class="MsoNormal">Davis says he’s a bit baffled by the way the nonsense news about his show gets amplified, “I wonder if the person who originally started the Harry Styles rumor is sitting at their computer somewhere marveling in disbelief at the speed and efficiency at which it’s spread.”

<p class="MsoNormal">Another, frankly unforgiveable, aspect to this most recent fakery delved into Davis’ relationship with former cast member Colton Haynes forcing Davis to set the record straight on this personal matter as well. “I also haven’t spoken to Colton in over a year, but am very happy for him.” <p class="MsoNormal">The bottom line, and something all real journalists must keep in mind, is that the people we write about are still real people. They have professional relationships and private lives that can be harmed when the media gets something wrong. To make something up, to outright lie, in order to get a few hundred or even a few thousand clicks on an obscure website is not only wrong, it is inhuman.

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This week we've had a number of Behind the Scenes Teen Wolf images that make little to no sense but they look really, really cool.

We also found out where the Nazi Werewolf wandered off to after breaking out of the tube. Jeez! Can't a guy take a nap without being hounded by the paparazzi?