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 Teen Wolf News 102616



 On Location with Teen Wolf

I wrote an incredibly long account of my night on location filming Teen Wolf in Downtown Los Angeles. It’s incredibly long, no lie. It’s like 3000 words which may seem intimidating when you think about sitting down to read it. Perhaps these unsolicited reviews from folks who have read the piece will convince you to click through.
 * “Paul, what a superbly written piece. As a fan of TV, that’s the kind of article I used to seek out for my own reading pleasure. I love behind the scenes stuff like that and getting a peek into what it’s really like to shoot something.” – Jeff Davis


 * “This was a really great read, honestly. forget the pictures.” - @shoujoKey


 * “Go read this.” - @yukirumas

If that’s not enough, here are a few highlights.


 * A conversation with Linden Ashby
 * Shelley Hennig gets me water
 * Guns! Guns! Guns!
 * Tyler Posey glares at me
 * Bella Thorne shows up for dinner

You can read my great big ol’ report from a Teen Wolf location at the main Teen Wolf News site.

LINK: http://bit.ly/TWNewsOnLocation

 UK Teen Wolf DVD Release

It appears MGM has given up attempts to get a broadcaster in the United Kingdom to show all seasons of Teen Wolf. The company is instead releasing Seasons 3-5 on DVD. It’s been a battle for UK fans to see the show from the very start. The first seasons aired on SKY Living. Channel 5 had a couple of seasons on 5 Star, and you could always get the episodes on iTunes, but there was never a time when a network broadcast the series in a consistent manner.

Seasons 3, 4 and 5 are currently available for preorder on Amazon UK.

 MTV is Imploding in Advance of CBS Takeover

Stories about MTV owner Sumner Redstone suing his ex-girlfriend for $150 million dollars dominate today’s headlines, but there is a far more dramatic story going on inside the network thanks to an impending corporate takeover by CBS, a frantic shuffling of executives and confusion over the future of MTV.

LINK - http://deadline.com/2016/10/sumner-redstone-elder-abuse-lawsuit-manuela-herzer-sydney-holland-1201842523/

Redstone ousted longtime VIACOM CEO Philippe Dauman after a protracted public court battle earlier this year. The Dauman regime hired everyone currently running things at MTV meaning their futures with the network are tenuous at best. Now Redstone is pushing MTV parent company VIACOM into an arranged marriage with CBS which he also owns. CBS is the more successful of the two, and its executives will likely dominate the new business.

LINK - http://nypost.com/2016/10/20/viacom-cbs-merger-could-be-in-place-by-thanksgiving/

The latest speculation about the plan says the companies will merge before the end of 2016 and it seems executives within VIACOM and MTV are scrambling to keep their jobs or find somewhere else to be before the new bosses take over. <p class="MsoNormal">We saw signs of desperation early this month as MTV leaked plans to make a renewed push into scripted television with writer Jeff Davis and a new version of War of the Worlds. It is shocking news considering that MTV President Sean Atkins spent most of the past year dismantling and canceling almost all the network’s existing scripted programming, including Davis’ Teen Wolf, in favor of reality shows.

LINK - http://www.teenwolfnews.com/single-post/2016/10/13/Jeff-Davis-Attached-to-New-MTV-Project

<p class="MsoNormal">MTV followed the news about the WOTW development deal with the sudden renewal of SCREAM for a short, 6-episode season 3. MTV’s October surprises are all the more shocking because, as late as September 30, Atkins was touting a new relationship with reality TV giant Mark Burnett and increasing the networks musical offerings. He detailed his “two-year” plan in a lengthy Billboard article that didn’t mention a single scripted show.

<p class="MsoNormal">LINK - http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/magazine-feature/7526429/mtv-president-ratings-music

<p class="MsoNormal">It appeared, from the outside at least, that the sudden flurry of scripted activity was Atkins hedging his bets. His new CBS masters might not be on board for a reality-heavy MTV slate. Then, this week came the biggest October surprise of all - Atkins quit his job at MTV.

<p class="MsoNormal">LINK - http://deadline.com/2016/10/sean-atkins-mtv-president-steps-down-1201841306/

<p class="MsoNormal">Less than a month ago he was all about the “next two years” and today he’s out. As they always do, Atkins officially “resigned” but all signs point to a big push out the door from executives higher up trying to reshuffle the deck in an attempt to keep their own jobs.

<p class="MsoNormal">His “two-year” plan is out, and all the deals he put in place, including WOTW, are now in the hands of his replacement Chris McCarthy who currently runs VH1.

<p class="MsoNormal">LINK - http://deadline.com/2016/10/chris-mccarthy-memo-challenge-mtv-vh1-logo-1201842623/

<p class="MsoNormal">All these sudden changes point to the fact that MTV is in a state of flux and the uncertainty over what the network will become will remain until the corporate merger fully shakes out.

<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;"> The Ultimate Hoechlin Interview

<p class="MsoNormal">Empire magazine has the ultimate Tyler Hoechlin Interview right now. They go in-depth with the former Teen Wolf about his career and his current gig as Superman. Perhaps the most interesting bit in the whole thing is the fact that Hoechlin’s acting career might have been very different had it not been for a very special rainy day in Southern California. <p class="MsoNormal">“…we got a random letter in the mail for an audition at a convention center. We were driving up to Moreno Valley for a baseball game, and my coach called and said, ‘Hey, turn around, game's been cancelled. It's got a rain-out.’ Which we had never had in Moreno Valley. I played in Moreno Valley through high school, so in the time span of ten, eleven years I played there, I think I might have had two games rained out.”

<p class="MsoNormal">“This is that fate moment. We had nothing else to do that day, and we were, ‘What are we going to do?’ ‘Oh, let's go to that audition for that acting class.’ We did, and we got into this acting school, and from there we got an agent about six months later. On my fifth audition, I got my first job and just kind of went from there. That was really the beginning of it. I think I was about nine years old when I got my first job.”

<p class="MsoNormal">LINK - http://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/teen-wolf-superman-depth-tyler-hoechlin/

<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;"> Posey Takes Charge

<p class="MsoNormal">Tyler Posey is running the show this week behind the scenes at Teen Wolf Headquarters. The actor is now sitting in the director’s chair for episode 613. <p class="MsoNormal">Posey began flexing his directing muscles earlier this year with a series of short films. He explained his desire to direct on his podcast. “There’s a lot that goes into directing. I’m kind of figuring it out,” he explains. “Aside from wanting to direct from an artistic standpoint, I’m really excited to direct from like a scheduling and getting everything done (standpoint). That being said, directing is kind of random and I’m a little nervous. I don’t know how it’s going to turn out.” <p class="MsoNormal">Posey says he tempers his nerves with the knowledge that the Teen Wolf production crew, most of whom he’s worked with for six years, won’t let him fail.

<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;"> Where’s Dylan?

<p class="MsoNormal">While Teen Wolf is once again filming episodes out of order, it’s clear they’re moving deeper into the second half of Season 6 without Dylan O’Brien. The actor remains in Europe shooting American Assassin as his Teen Wolf co-stars work on episodes 611, 612 and 613. <p class="MsoNormal">Adding to the fact that he’s simply not there as filming continues, we have the accounts from two British fans who spoke to Dylan early this month. They claim Dylan told them that he would return to Beacon Hills for just one week to film a single episode, 610, before returning to film work with the recently rescheduled Maze Runner: The Death Cure. LINK - http://www.teenwolfnews.com/single-post/2016/10/09/Dylan-O’Brien-gives-British-Fans-an-Unforgettable-Night <p class="MsoNormal">My recent trip to Teen Wolf HQ in Los Angeles left me even more convinced that these fans got the right story. It wasn’t anything the Teen Wolf folks said that convinces me; it’s what they didn’t say.

<p class="MsoNormal">At this point in filming the first half of the season, I was getting reassurances from sources on set almost weekly that Dylan would be a major part of the season and that they were filming a bunch of his scenes up front to allow for his movie schedule. This time no such assurances are coming from the production. The folks I met at the studio remained entirely silent on Dylan’s involvement beyond saying he’ll be back for episode 610.

<p class="MsoNormal">Teen Wolf currently plans to film through March before wrapping the series, that leaves precious little time for Dylan O’Brien to appear at all in the second half of the season.