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Teen Wolf News March

Five Shows You Should Be Watching
It’s been exactly a year since the cameras rolled for the last time on Teen Wolf and six months since the final episode aired. While I still miss my weekly Beacon Hills fix, I’ve found some other brilliant genre shows to partially fill the gaping hole in my heart. Here are five current shows Teen Wolf fans might like.

The Magicians
I recently described this show as Hogwarts meets Narnia meets your gay best friend. The Magicians is this perfect bizarre mix of black humor and fantasy. Basically, a mismatched group of frenemies from a special college for magicians end up stuck together fighting bad guys and ruling a magical kingdom with talking animals and centaurs and sh*t.

The first season was a little too heavy for my tastes with far too much crying and gnashing of teeth and far too little humor. The show really came into its own in the much lighter second season, and, so far, the third season is like Christmas and your birthday roll around every Wednesday night.

Seasons 1 and 2 are available on Netflix. New episodes air on Wednesday nights on SYFY in the US and on Showcase in Canada.

Heathers
This is kind of a trick entry since this show is not actually airing right now. The Paramount Network released the pilot for their TV reboot of the 80s movie Heathers online several weeks ago in anticipation of the series starting on TV earlier this month.

TPN pulled the plug on the planned debut after the situation in Parkland, Florida. While the sometimes-violent series was put on hold out of sympathy for the victims and their families, it was also genuinely the wrong cultural moment for the show to air. The whole world watched as a group of teens proved that this generation isn’t completely composed of the vapid and self-absorbed snowflakes that television so often portrays and that Heathers specifically skewers to a level of satirical brilliance.

They not only pushed the debut date back, they also removed the free first episode from iTunes. I watched it before that and it is bloody brilliant. No, it is not the beloved movie from pre-internet times. There are a handful of call backs in the episode that reference the first flick and the bones of the plot are still there, but there’s really so much more rich ground to satirize now with social media blackmail, influencer hive mind, and personal fluidity. The Heathers TV show truly is an altogether different animal. Watch for its return “later this year”.

Channel Zero
If you’d told me three years ago that SYFY would have not one but two shows on my “Should Watch” list, I’d have offered you some of my strongest meds. The network really turned things around in recent seasons and one of the reasons is Channel Zero. It’s an anthology show, which means they tell a single story over an entire season then switch up the cast and tell a different story the following series. The first and second seasons were good and creepy, but the current season (Butcher’s Block starring Holland Roden) is a brilliant body-horror gorefest. It’s not for everyone, but if you’re into a good jump scare and a smidge of cannibalism, make a date with Channel Zero.

Seasons 1 and 2 are available to stream on the SYFY website and app if you have a cable or satellite subscription. New Episodes air on Wednesdays on SYFY in the US and on Showcase in Canada.

DARK
In all honesty, the only reason this one made the list is because Teen Wolf Creator Jeff Davis likes it. We chatted over the weekend and he suggested, in the strongest terms, that I watch it. “Did you see Dark on Netflix? F**king brilliant.” After bingeing the whole thing Saturday and Sunday, I can see why folks love this show, but it wasn’t really a top-five experience for me.

At it’s core, DARK is a German teen soap opera told over three generations via a wormhole that facilitates time travel between the 1953, 1986, and 2019. It’s in German but Netflix has overdubbed it in English, which isn’t as distracting as you might think.

The time travel story is really quite complex and delicious, just really good thick sci-fi. The soap elements are less successful in my opinion. A number of times I found myself wishing they’d just get on with it instead of stopping the action to figure out if one character was actually his girlfriend’s nephew because of time travel. Overall though, it’s quite satisfying.

You can watch the first season of DARK on Netflix now.

Ghosted
I’ll say up front that this show isn’t going to delight everyone. It’s the X-Files, Men in Black, and Scooby Doo reimagined as a workplace comedy. It’s an acquired taste much like The Office and Parks and Rec. I cite those examples because Ghosted features memorable supporting actors from both series.

<p class="MsoNormal">In addition to its dry humor, Ghosted does a monster-of-the-week format that works surprisingly well in the 23-minute format. It’s just a silly bit of fun really.

<p class="MsoNormal">You can catch up on previous episodes of Ghosted on the Fox website and app. The show is on a loooong hiatus right now and is supposed to return with 7 new episodes sometime this spring.

Tyler Posey Hits the Road
<p class="MsoNormal">Beyond some social media posts, we’ve seen absolutely nothing in the news about Tyler Posey’s new band. The Teen Wolf and former Lost in Kostko bandmate Fred Ramirez have joined forces with Nick Guzman to form PVMNTS. <p class="MsoNormal">The group marks a return to Posey’s musical roots, which is something he didn’t have time to do when he was on TV. “I had to focus a lot of time on Teen Wolf,” Posey explained in the most recent Doin’ It Raw podcast. “I just didn’t have a lot of time to do what it takes to really maintain a band. Right when Teen Wolf ended, I started playing with this band, and immediately started writing songs and coming up with the prospects of where we want to go.”

<p class="MsoNormal">Posey says PVMNTS is ready to get into the studio to record. “I have a lot of friends in the music scene who know producers and people that are good to know to get your shit out there. I hit up this really good producer who I’m a fan of and kind of know. He recorded the first band I was in before he was really well known. I hit him up and we’re going to record a six-song, all original EP in late March.”

<p class="MsoNormal">   In the run up to that recording session, PVMNTS released a demo to stoke fan interest. <p class="MsoNormal">The demo for the band’s song “Jumping Stairsets” is the kind of effusive pop punk we’ve come to expect from Posey. The upbeat, moshable, and guitar-heavy track belies the maturity of the lyrics and whets the appetite for the band’s future efforts.

<p class="MsoNormal">In addition to recording, Posey, Ramirez, and Guzman will spend a couple weeks touring in the United Kingdom in May. “I’m just excited to put some music out there and play some shows," says Posey. I haven’t done that in a long, long time.”

<p class="MsoNormal">Check the links below for more information about the band and their upcoming tour dates.

<p class="MsoNormal">More: https://www.facebook.com/pvmntsband/

<p class="MsoNormal">https://www.livenation.co.uk/artist/pvmnts-tickets

Shelley Hennig as One Busted Mother
<p class="MsoNormal">While I had no trouble imagining Shelley Hennig as an awkward teen werecoyote, her new role is a challenge for me to wrap my head around. She’s been tapped to play a single mom in Arizona for a pilot episode of a show called False Profits on ABC. <p class="MsoNormal">I’m sure Shelley would make a great mom, I mean, I’ve seen her IG pics with her younger relatives and she’s a treat, but I see her more as the cool aunt. Still, she’s got the acting chops to pull off the part, which seems to have been written – at least partially - with her in mind.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Hilary Jenkel, a sharp-tongued, hot-tempered former beauty queen whose glory days were cut short by a nasty drug habit. Now in recovery and single mother of 6-year-old Lila, Hilary hopes to reignite the flame between her and Clark, Lila’s father. But when he sues for full custody of their daughter, Hilary needs to whip her life and bank account into shape. She joins her co-workers in a direct-sales cosmetics business, using her pageant know-how as the underdog’s team secret sales weapon.” <p class="MsoNormal">While a pilot order doesn’t mean the show will ever see the light of day, Hennig is joined by some other TV heavy hitters in the ensemble cast including Vanessa Williams (Ugly Betty, Desperate Housewives) and Bellamy Young (Scandal). The show is also produced in house at ABC which bodes well, and, if that weren’t enough to guarantee the show makes it to series, behind the camera you have the producers from Desperate Housewives and Code Black.

<p class="MsoNormal">If Shelley’s new show makes it, look for an announcement in late spring or early summer.

<p class="MsoNormal">More : https://deadline.com/2018/02/false-profits-shelley-hennig-cast-abc-comedic-soap-pilot-1202305237/

MTV Talks Teen Wolf Reboot (Again)
<p class="MsoNormal">Six months after the final episode aired, MTV seems poised to resume talk of rebooting the series. Let’s be clear on one thing, it’s just talk. There is no firm plan to reboot the show at this point. However, there is a meeting on the books between Jeff Davis and the network this month to discuss the matter.

THERE IS NO REBOOT … yet
<p class="MsoNormal">So far, this idea of rebooting Teen Wolf only came up once, in passing. Davis met with network president Chris McCarthy last year and they mentioned, in passing, that the Teen Wolf brand and intellectual property was too valuable not to keep going. <p class="MsoNormal">Then, in an interview, McCarthy used Teen Wolf as an example of the various different digital formats scripted material MIGHT take at a network that recently cancelled all but one of it’s scripted programs. His use of air quotes around all that got completely lost as the aggregation-addicted entertainment media and overzealous social media types blew the whole thing waaaay out of proportion.

Jeff Davis Says Talks Continue
<p class="MsoNormal">I spoke with Jeff Davis over the weekend just to catch up. He’s taking meetings with various outlets including “several” meetings at the world’s biggest streaming platform. It’s been a year since Teen Wolf stopped filming and Davis tells me he’s itching to get back into production on a new show. <p class="MsoNormal">As for the currently imaginary Teen Wolf Reboot, “Well, I’m supposed to meet with the new head of Scripted at MTV this month and we’re still talking possibility of a Teen Wolf reboot-next class as well as other projects.”

<p class="MsoNormal">We actually don’t know who Davis will be meeting with, the network’s head of scripted just stepped down and her replacement has yet to be named. Again, this doesn’t bode well for an actual reboot anytime soon.

<p class="MsoNormal">Think about it, if they decided to pull the trigger on a new Teen Wolf TV show at this upcoming meeting, you’re still looking at like three months of pre-production, casting, writing, blah, blah, and blah. Then we'd see at least four months of production and longer before anything would air. Even if they went with one of McCarthy’s other “ideas” for “new” digital formats, it would be several months before the Teen Wolf podcast or web series or Snapchat thing would be done and released.

<p class="MsoNormal">Currently, there is no reboot, just more talk so don’t freak out this time please :/

<p class="MsoNormal">More: https://www.thewrap.com/mtv-vh1-head-scripted-maggie-malina-steps/

Colton Hits Balls for Charity
<p class="MsoNormal">If you follow Beacon Hills Werewolf/Kanima hybrid Colton Haynes on social media, you know he’s an avid tennis player. Well, in what must have a been a real bucket-list moment for the actor, Haynes played mixed doubles beside tennis superstar Serena Williams last week. <p class="MsoNormal">The pair, playing as “the Kryptonians”, lost their match, but the Desert Smash event isn’t about winning, it’s about raising money for charity. In this case, Williams’ raised funds to support her Yetunde Price Resource Center in Compton. Named after Williams’ late sister, the center acts as a bridge between the victims of violence and the various supports available from public and private agencies in the community.

<p class="MsoNormal">Beacon Hill’s bad wolf – and Colton Haynes' tennis nemesis - Ian Bohen was also at the event in Palm Springs last week.

<p class="MsoNormal">MORE: http://www.tennis.com/pro-game/2018/03/14th-annual-desert-smash-was-huge-success-tennis-channel-stars-2018-indian-wells-la-quinta/72565/

Arden Cho Stars in Studio L Launch
<p class="MsoNormal">A lot is riding on Arden Cho’s next big project, Lionsgate is counting on the former Teen Wolf star to launch a whole new studio focused on digital platform programing. <p class="MsoNormal">Cho stars in The Honor List, a movie about friends growing apart and coming back together in the wake of personal tragedy. Cho plays a ballerina named “Honor” alongside Pretty Little Liars' Sasha Pieterse, Freakish star and social media influencer Megan Rienks, and the breakout star from TNT’s CLAWS,   Karrueche Tran.

<p class="MsoNormal">The Honor List is the first offering from Lionsgate’s new “digital first” arm Studio L and its success or failure will be a big indicator of the ultimate fate of the enterprise. Look for The Honor List this spring.

<p class="MsoNormal">MORE: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lionsgates-studio-l-plans-first-slate-digital-films-1087276

<p class="MsoNormal">http://lionsgateathome.com/the-honor-list

Hoechlin and Sharman Stun Milan
<p class="MsoNormal">Two of our favorite Teen Wolves marked the end of the series with GoodbyeCon in Milan Italy recently. Tyler Hoechlin and Daniel Sharman took to the stage to the delight of European fans.



<p class="MsoNormal">The event marked the end of three long-running series, Teen Wolf, Pretty Little Liars, and The Vampire Diaries with stars from each show making appearances.

<p class="MsoNormal">Among the regular convention questions that we seem to get every single time, there were a couple of gems. Someone asked Daniel his favorite Teen Wolf episode. He said it was Season 3’s brilliantly creepy Motel California. Later he said if he could be any other supernatural creature on the show, he’d pick Meredith.

<p class="MsoNormal">When asked who they were closest to within the cast, both men said simultaneously “Ian Bohen and JR Bourne”.

<p class="MsoNormal">Beacon Hills Banshee Holland Roden was in Milan for GC on Friday as well, but an emergency back home saw her return to the states almost immediately after she arrived. She sent an apology video to disappointed fans.

<p class="MsoNormal">Holland Video - https://www.facebook.com/groups/GoodbyeCon2018/permalink/766274756905081/