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 Posey talks Producing and Directing Teen Wolf

The most recent segment of The Wrap’s “Drinking with the Stars” features Tyler Posey discussing his new roles on Teen Wolf.



 New Video - Teen Wolf Introduces the Beast of Gevaudan

MTV released the latest promotional video for Teen Wolf on this week. The 1:42 clip includes the return of former cast members Gideon Emery (Deucalion) and Michael Hogan (Gerard Argent) as well has tantalizing glimpses of the Beast of Gevaudan. Described by Deucalion as “History’s most vicious, most famous werewolf,” the Beast of Gévaudan terrorized the French countryside in the 18th Century. The new Teen Wolf promo video suggests the Dread Doctors have managed to bring it back and want Deucalion to help them steal its abilities.

Also included in the clip:

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">A short but great Stydia scene inside Eichen House  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">Theo explaining how his newly resurrected chimera will be going to high school and fighting for their lives  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">More Deucalion  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">A Theo/Malia fight  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">The return of Deaton at a new location called Ft. Jewett  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">The return of Meredith  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">The return of Gerard  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">A Liam/Hayden kiss  Burning Parrish <p class="MsoNormal">'<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">Teen Wolf episodes return in January on a new night at a new time. Watch MTV Tuesday January 5 at 9PM. '

<h2 style="padding:0.2em 0.4em; margin:0 0 -20px 0; font-family:Century Gothic,serif; color:#FF6600; font-size:100%; font-weight:bold; text-align:left;"> The Long Slow Death of Television Ratings

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">Fox Networks this week became the first major broadcast network to abandon the television ratings system that has long dominated advertising rates in the US.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">In an internal email sent to Fox staffers, network heads Gary Newman and Dana Walden said, “We are making a significant change to the way we communicate the performance of our shows. Beginning Monday, you will no longer receive Live + Same Day Nielsen ratings. No “fast nationals,” no “overnights,” “no prelims.”  There will no longer be THAT email in your inbox every morning at 8AM, because THAT email is no longer relevant.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">The “Live + Same Day” ratings only count people who watch television shows live or within a few hours of an original broadcast. As Teen Wolf News has reported, most people don’t watch shows live anymore. Many don’t watch on an actual television either. These groups, millions of people for each hour of television broadcast, are simply ignored in those initial numbers.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">NBCUniversal, with its stable of cable networks, stopped talking about those early numbers last year and most media companies have recognized the inherent fallacy in that limited ratings snapshot but Fox is the first of the major network players to act, “The connections between viewers and our shows today are more complex and, in many ways, deeper than ever – but they no longer only happen overnight. So why do we, as an industry, wake up every morning and talk about those Live + Same Day numbers?”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">Indeed, almost every reported “ratings number” comes from those earliest results which, according to Fox, leaves out the majority of the viewing audience, “Within a 7-day period, more than one-third of the broadcast 18-49 audience watches after the same-day window. Over 30 days, seven of our FOX series either double or more than double their same-day audience across platforms. And if you compare our total multiplatform audience this season versus last, we are up +14%.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">Fox also debunked the long-held belief that television advertising lives or dies by those overnight numbers, “The same-day numbers also do not reflect how we monetize our content. Half of our TV ad inventory is sold on a C7 basis, and we monetize our content on digital platforms like FOX NOW and Hulu, and through TrueX sponsorships – none of which are included in Nielsen’s fast nationals.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">That “C7” number refers to viewers who report watching a show within the first 7 days after broadcast which is a truer picture of a show’s actual audience.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">Fox leaders admit that they are ahead of the curve and that most entertainment news outlets will still only report the “Live + Same Day” numbers, “We know that the daily external dialogue isn’t going to change right away, but internally, we can kick things off by shifting our own mindsets toward a more holistic measure.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">Live numbers, specifically for shows aimed at younger viewers, have dropped significantly since 2013 with shows like Pretty Little Liars, Supernatural and Teen Wolf losing about 20% of their live audience from season to season.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">Even “must see” shows like Scandal have seen a drop. The Shonda Rhimes soap lost 5% of its 18-49 year olds between Seasons 3 and 4 and is down an additional 12% in the demo this season.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">People are still watching those shows. They’re just not watching on the night. Scandal’s audience jumps by more than 75% when you add those who view on their DVR. Late viewers add an additional 83% to Supernatural's total audience. Even more people tune in via streaming and Video on Demand but those are still not counted in the traditional ratings.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">As Fox’s Newman and Walden point out, the reporting and reliance on those initial ratings numbers won’t disappear overnight but, once all the networks catch up with their audience, they will eventually fade away.

<h2 style="padding:0.2em 0.4em; margin:0 0 -20px 0; font-family:Century Gothic,serif; color:#FF6600; font-size:100%; font-weight:bold; text-align:left;"> Dylan O’Brien is Under Contract for Teen Wolf Season Six

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">Despite the endless stream of clickbait reports from unreliable sources over the past several weeks, Dylan O’Brien is NOT leaving Teen Wolf at the end of this season. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">TeenWolfNews.com first reported back in July that O’Brien would remain with the show into its sixth season. Despite this, a few out-of-context quotes from the actor and from Teen Wolf Executive Producer Jeff Davis led to a flurry of false reports suggesting he would exit the MTV show after the second half of Season 5.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">The "Dylan O'Brien isn't returning for Teen Wolf Season 6" rumor dialed up a notch this week with reports that the next Maze Runner movie is slated to film starting in February which would seem to conflict with Teen Wolf’s filming schedule.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">TWN talked to Jeff Davis this week to clear up any confusion about the actor’s future with Teen Wolf.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">While both Maze Runner Director Wes Ball and the Director’s Guild of Canada say Maze Runner: The Death Curse will film in Vancouver between February 29 and May 31, 2016, Davis says those dates could still change, “Despite what you’ve read those dates are not confirmed.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">While Teen Wolf has traditionally filmed in the late winter and early spring, the start date for filming on Season 6 is also not yet set, “We don’t have a start date for production,” says Davis.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">Even if the two productions’ schedules do conflict, Dylan O’Brien won’t leave Teen Wolf, “He’s contracted for both,” Davis said.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">It will be up to O’Brien’s representatives and MTV to figure out how to share the actor if needs be. “It can be a scheduling nightmare to be honest,” Davis explains, “but I think it’s hardest on the actor, actually, who can find themselves doing a lot of flying.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">This isn’t the first time Davis and the Teen Wolf production have had to work around a major conflict in an actor’s schedule. “The most difficult scheduling we’ve ever done was working around Jill Wagner’s Wipeout shoot.” Davis is referring to the actor’s stint as Kate Argent back in Season 1. At the time, Teen Wolf shot in Georgia while the game show Wipeout was produced in California. “She would fly to Atlanta to shoot with us and then be back on a plane a few hours later for shooting with Wipeout.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">Whatever the difficulty in scheduling, Davis says Dylan O’Brien is under contract to remain on Teen Wolf for Season 6.