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 Teen Wolf News 081716



 Shelley Versus the Flood

Teen Wolf’s Shelley Hennig went to New Orleans last week to finish up work on the new movie When We First Met but ended up helping the victims of deadly flooding that struck other parts of Louisiana over the weekend. The actor used her social media accounts to direct folks to resources and encourage folks to donate to the many shelters that popped up in reaction to the disaster. There was also this harrowing series of tweets as a family became trapped on an overpass and then lost communication. For several days, Shelley stayed on top of the latest flood news and broadcast it to her 473 million Twitter followers. She was recognized for her efforts to help the survivors by the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Monsoon-like rains inundated parts of Louisiana this week, leaving six people dead and thousands temporarily homeless.The Times Picayune has put together a list of how you can help - http://www.nola.com/weather/index.ssf/2016/08/baton_rouge_flooding_new_orlea.html

 Changes Coming to Teen Wolf Wikia

Wika’s corporate headquarters on 3rd Street in San Francisco, California looks a bit like a TV set. Half of the floor 7 office space is taken up with dozens of low-profile cubicles, a pool table, conversation nooks (with furniture designed more for appearances than sitting) and a wall-sized mural of pop culture characters including Darth Vader, Iron Man and Pikachu (the Pokémon is carefully painted over the electrical outlet). Glassed-in conference rooms with names like “Ministry of Magic” and “Holodeck” line the walls. There’s a spacious kitchen in the middle of the office. Coolers are filled with soft drinks and food (all free to employees and guests). Wikia HQ would look right at home on HBO’s Silicon Valley or Amazon Prime’s BETAS and, like the companies on those shows, is populated by very knowledgeable people doing very important things that folks outside the business mostly wouldn’t understand. It makes sense Wikia HQ looks like our idea of a big internet company because Wikia is one of the top entertainment-based internet companies on the planet. An average 190 million unique visitors access Wikia each month across 360 thousand fan communities. It's also worth mentioning that almost all of that traffic is coming to see the more than 40 million encyclopedia articles generated by the two hundred thousand or so volunteers who actively edit on the sites. Like any large company, Wikia can’t afford to stagnate. They must keep growing and adapting to the ever-changing digital landscape. To that end, Wikia has launched Fandom.com. Unlike our Wikia sites, Fandom is designed as an editorial space kind of like the Teen Wolf News site that we launched a few years ago. Fandom includes speculation and opinion, news and video covering all aspects of entertainment. Like Wikia, Fandom has very few paid writers, editors and staffers. It mainly depends on free labor through the Fan Contributor Program. Anyone can join and you can write about any pop culture topic that interests you. Fandom isn’t just a cool new feature of Wikia, it will soon be the main identity of the company. Currently the tag line is “Wikia: Home of the Fandom.” We expect that will soon flip to “Fandom: Powered by Wikia” and eventually the entire company will simply be called Fandom. The plan is to focus on pop culture news and fan discussions just as much as the company currently focuses on the encyclopedia content.

These changes are already in process. Here on Teen Wolf Wikia you will see the new Discussions feature replace our familiar forums and message walls to better segue up with the Fandom mission. We don’t know when that's happening, but it’s happening.

Much of our traffic now comes through mobile so our Episode Lists and other “table-based” content will need to change to accommodate those visitors. This will also help when Fandom news articles use our encyclopedia info. There are also new changes in the way Google ranks content which will mean changing our photo-naming scheme and the introductory paragraphs on most of our pages. Some of these changes will be seamless, you’ll hardly notice, but others will come with growing pains. We’re already seeing this on our Teen Wolf Wikia App. Currently the “trending video” default view is showing videos from 3 months ago because the piece that’s supposed to update video views is broken. As a result, our app users don’t get an updated front page and don’t come back as often. There’s also currently no way to link to content outside the app and we’re in a legal struggle with Apple to get our Teen Wolf app content listed in the iTunes store. Things like that will continue to happen because Wikia is a very large company trying to make some really big changes and you can’t turn a ship this big without a little choppy water.

 5 Times Theo Wasn’t a Total Dick

<p class="MsoNormal">Actor Cody Christian returns to Teen Wolf Season 6 this fall. His return is surprising because his character, Theo Raeken, was dragged to hell at the end of last season after being a total dick to everyone and killing a bunch of people. A common thing actors will tell you is that every character, no matter how evil, is the hero of their own story so there must be some good in Theo. Right? The answer is “NO!” but, with the help of Cody Christian Superfan and creator of the Theo & Deuc cartoon, Chan Vasquez, we were able to find 5 examples when Theo Raeken wasn’t a total jerk. <p class="MsoNormal">We had to dig pretty deep because Theo never did anything even vaguely nice without an ulterior motive. I mean, as a child, he actually killed his younger sister so a group of ancient supernatural scientists could turn him into a werewolf/werecoyote chimera (I kid you not) and that’s not the worst thing he did. In Teen Wolf Season 5 he killed the main character, manipulated everybody, crushed his “father’s” hand with a hammer and kicked a puppy. Okay, I made up that last one, but he did double-cross a werecoyote and she was kicked pretty hard, so, again, the key word here is “total” because, in every situation, the character is being somewhat dick-like.

<p class="MsoNormal">Check out the whole list over at Fandom.com - http://fandom.wikia.com/articles/5-times-teen-wolf-theo-wasnt-total-jerk

<h2 style="padding:0.2em 0.4em; margin:0 0 -20px 0; font-family:Century Gothic,serif; color:#778899; font-size:100%; font-weight:bold; text-align:left;"> Danny Meets Vampires

<p class="MsoNormal">Finally, Keahu Kahuanui (Danny) is returning to television. The former Teen Wolf hunk will appear in the upcoming season of The Originals on The CW. <p class="MsoNormal">Kahuanui’s exit from Teen Wolf is still a sore spot among fans because his Danny character disappeared with no on-screen explanation and right after he’d reveled that he knew all about Beacon Hills supernatural community.

<p class="MsoNormal">Starting with the Season 3 debut of The Originals, Kahuanui will be recurring as “Eddie” the human boyfriend to vampire Joshua Rosza. It should be noted that Josh’s friends and lovers tend to die ugly on that show so we don’t know how long Kahuanui will be around but it’ll be good to have him back.

<p class="MsoNormal">The Originals won’t return for Season 4 until Spring 2017.

<h2 style="padding:0.2em 0.4em; margin:0 0 -20px 0; font-family:Century Gothic,serif; color:#778899; font-size:100%; font-weight:bold; text-align:left;"> MGM Banks on 'Teen Wolf'

<p class="MsoNormal">Teen Wolf may be ending, but the show continues to boost profits for MGM. The entertainment giant just released their financials for the second quarter of 2016 and, despite the fact that no new episodes aired, Teen Wolf was a big earner once again.
 * Television licensing revenue for television content was $55.3 million for the three months ended June 30, 2016, an increase of $34.4 million, or 164%, as compared to $20.9 million for the three months ended June 30, 2015. We generated higher revenue with deliveries of new episodes of Vikings (season 4), plus new episodes of unscripted shows including The Voice (season 10), Survivor (season 32) and several other shows, many of which are accounted for on a net basis. In addition, we generated significant international SVOD revenue from our ongoing licensing of our successful scripted television series Vikings, Teen Wolf and Fargo.

<p class="MsoNormal">MGM got paid every time Teen Wolf showed up on a new streaming service like Netflix in Australia or CRAVETV in Canada. MGM’s television operations out-earned their movie business for the quarter and they expect to make even more in licensing fees during the fourth quarter after Teen Wolf debuts Season 6 in November.

<p class="MsoNormal">MGM co-produces Teen Wolf with “an affiliate of MTV Networks” but retains full rights to the name and other aspects of the original 1985 film.

<h2 style="padding:0.2em 0.4em; margin:0 0 -20px 0; font-family:Century Gothic,serif; color:#778899; font-size:100%; font-weight:bold; text-align:left;"> 'Teen Wolf' Tops TV at SDCC Again

<p class="MsoNormal">San Diego Comic Con is the center of the Fandom universe and, if social media buzz coming out of this year’s convention is any indication, television remains the dominate force in that universe. <p class="MsoNormal">A company called ListenFirst Media looked at activity across a combination of Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Instagram, Tumblr, Wikipedia and YouTube. They measured shares and likes and other indications of engagement and came up with a list of the most popular media names at SDCC 2016.

<p class="MsoNormal">Here’s what they found:
 * Television beats movies. The top ten television shows of the convention racked up 53.5 million engagements versus 43 million for the top movies.
 * Teen Wolf is one of the top ten television shows when it comes to social engagement during SDCC 2016.

<p class="MsoNormal">Other shows in the top ten included Netflix upcoming Marvel shows Luke Cage and Iron Fist as well as Teen Titans Go!, The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones. <p class="MsoNormal">Teen Wolf generated a good bit of buzz in the assessment this year mainly because the network released a new trailer and announced the end of the show. Both created social engagements across all platforms. Of course, Teen Wolf is always a very social show. They made the top ten of this survey in 2015. We don’t have the same comparison for earlier years, but Teen Wolf was tops in single-platform engagement (Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook) in 2014 and 2013.

<p class="MsoNormal">Links- <p class="MsoNormal">2016 numbers - http://www.wsj.com/articles/at-comic-con-tv-shows-top-movies-in-generating-social-media-buzz-1469478405 <p class="MsoNormal">2015 numbers - http://variety.com/2015/film/news/comic-con-which-films-tv-shows-got-biggest-buzz-data-1201538990/