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 Teen Wolf News 101313



For all our Behind the Scenes Pics and Updates all in one place, check out our special Teen Wolf Season 3 Behind the Scenes Page.

You'll find a full chronological listing of the filming of Teen Wolf Season 3 right from the start.

This week - a look inside the Teen Wolf Writers' Room.

 The Interwebs is a Liar!

I would normally ignore a bit of false information on a college newspaper site, but this nonsense showed up in a Bing News Search and that means it’s widely disseminated nonsense and needs to be shut down.


 * “Whether or not you like or even know about MTV's "Teen Wolf," it's interesting to know that the show was "saved" by social media. A fan with a Tumblr and a lot of followers posted enough about the show, and the followers and their followers petitioned enough, and voila-- something that was cancelled after one season just barreled through it's third.”

This. Never. Happened.

Teen Wolf was renewed for a 2nd Season on July 13, 2011. It was announced right after Episode 7 (Night School) aired so… when was the big petition drive? When was there even a danger of the show being cancelled that sparked the tumblr revolution?

This. Never. Happened.

MTV has believed in Teen Wolf since the very beginning. At the time of its renewal, Teen Wolf was the highest rated new show the network had seen in two seasons. It was never in any danger of not coming back for a season 2 and the ratings and popularity of the show have grown each year since.

 Teen Wolf Season 4

Looks like Season 3 will be an outlier in history of the show – the oddly long season.

MTV is returning to the “12 episodes per” order as they look toward Season 4. The shortened season is being reported as “24 episodes of a heavy SFX weekly show is just too much to handle in the time allotted.”

I’ve not seen that bit of the NYCC Panel yet. I have to take what I’m reading at face value until I hear it from Jeff.

Also, we don’t have a debut date for Season 4. They expect to be shooting Season 3(b) right through December. If they managed to start shooting right after the holidays – say mid-January – they could have 12 in the can in time for the usual June debut.

Of course that would mean that they’d be shooting for 18 months straight with barely a break. I expect a Season 4 debut will be pushed back later in the summer to give cast, crew and creatives a breather.

Episode 313, the first of Season 3(b), debuts on MTV on January 6, 2014.

 MTV Expands Programming

Another reason for the return to a normal 12 episode season might be that MTV is looking at a couple new dramas to add to its lineup in the coming years.

Victoria Justice is coming over from sister network Nickelodeon to star in Eye Candy based on a novel by R. L. Stien (Goosebumps).

The network has, so far, only ordered a single episode (pilot) of the show about the world of computer “hactivists” and cyberstalkers.

Also on the development slate, although not much has been said lately, is SCREAM. The TV show inspired by the movie series of the same name.

Announced six months ago during the MTV Upfronts in New York, SCREAM will feature supernatural elements which were completely lacking in the film series. This has some folks, including one of the original movie’s producers, perplexed.

Unlike other networks, MTV tends to build its programming around a single show each night. Teen Wolf has Mondays staked out. When Teen Wolf wraps a new season of Teen Mom takes its slot. The same thing happens with Catfish which alternates with Awkward on Tuesdays.

If they stick to this strategy, adding the two new dramas, and whatever reality stuff they have ready to launch, to the mix will give them longer stints of original programming without overworking any single show or its fandom.