Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-4091815-20150307001512/@comment-4091815-20150307173117

Fuerte92 wrote: But isn't this just a sort of a loan? I mean, they may say that they will give TW XXXX$ if they want to have a S6, but that doesn't mean that then they have to have a new season. Maybe if they won't have a new season those money can be spent to add some new episodes to other shows...Do you think they could do that? I mean, isn't a little risky to renew a show for a new season before its last one has still to start ? Especially since the 4th season didn't go so well in ratings? (I know Paul will disagree on this, so let's say "since the 4th season hasn't had great ratings?, even if they were determined in an odd and outdated way for the new kind of children that [is supposed to] watch our show?", just to be clear :P )

The tax credits are not a "loan" - it is a discount on taxable goods and salaries used in the production of movies and television. It means, after everything is said and done, the state will rebate the amount of the credits to the production in the case of Teen Wolf, that comes to $11 million off the cost of Season 5.

An application for the tax credit doesn't constitute renewal but it does indicate that the network and production company are moving in that direction. If they later choose not to renew, Teen Wolf withdraws from the program and the tax credits go to another show.

As for the ratings - youth oriented shows are down all over. It is the new normal in television. If networks cancelled every show that saw a similar (or worse) drop in ratings in the past year and a half, there would be nothing on television but Scandal and Empire.