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 The Big Derek Lie

It’s not often that someone at a convention Teen Wolf panel asks a direct question that matters. I mean, it’s usually all “who’s the cutest couple on set?” or “can I hug you?” but at Wizard World in Raleigh, North Carolina this week we got a serious question for Tyler Hoechlin.

“How many episodes are you going to shoot of season 5?”

A simple, straightforward question that is relevant and timely. It’s something we’re all asking after Jeff Davis told us that Tyler Hoechlin won’t be around much anymore, “We talked and creatively agreed that maybe this was a good season to refocus on the teens of Teen Wolf, and while he won’t be a series regular anymore, I can say that you probably won’t have seen the last of Derek Hale. We love him and miss him.”

Now, to your average fan, the words “Series Regular” mean the actors in the opening credits. Also, people like Melissa Ponzio, Linden Ashby and Ian Bohen are seen “regularly” so one might think they’re “series regulars” too. That’s not actually the way it works.

Here’s the breakdown for Teen Wolf Season 4 -


 * Series Regulars - Scott, Stiles, Lydia, Liam, Malia, Kira, Derek
 * Recurring – Melissa, Sheriff, Deaton, Coach, Parrish, Meredith, Mason, Peter, Brunski
 * Guest Star – Main Assassins, Noshiko, Ken, Satomi, Brett, Deputy Haigh, Natalie
 * Co-Star – pretty much all the other speaking roles

The thing all these designations have in common is contracts. The “Series Regulars” are under contract for all episodes. The “Recurring” are under contract for a certain number of episodes during the season. And “Guest” and “Co-Star” would be under contract for one or more episodes.

Currently, it appears, Tyler Hoechilin isn't under contract for any episodes.

Here’s how he answered the question of “how many episodes” he will be doing in Season 5 -
 * “I can’t even say a number. I can’t say that Derek’s coming back. I can’t say he’s not coming back. Both would be incomplete statements I guess. I’m sorry. I hate it. I know we always get like these cliffhangers and stuff and now I’m the one doing it. But as of right now, you’ll have to wait and see what happens. Maybe he’ll pop up randomly in the woods. I don’t know yet. We’ll have to wait and see. Jeff and I did have a really good meeting so we’ll see. Everything depends on so many variables that I can’t say yes and I can’t say no. If it happens to pop up, I think it will be cool. We’ll see.”

This would make Jeff Davis’ statement a lie of omission at the very least. While it is technically accurate to describe Hoechlin’s status as “no longer a Series Regular” it is not the complete truth. He has, according to Hoechilin, no status at all within the show at this moment and none evident in the near future.

 Debut Date?

Teen Wolf Official posted this to their twitter account at 9:00 PM EDT on Thursday March 12, 2015. Many are taking it to be the premiere date for Season 5 but Teen Wolf News has been unable to confirm that’s what the tweet means.

62915 is also the zip code for Cambria, Illinois and the date Taylor Swift is scheduled to play Dublin, Ireland so no one knows exactly what they had in mind and the tweet was deleted shortly after it began to spread.

If the last Monday in June is the start date, that means we have just 103 days, roughly 15 weeks to wait until Teen Wolf returns to MTV.

The cast and crew are currently into week 6 of production. At the PaleyFest event in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Jeff Davis said they were shooting episode 4 of what is to be a 20 episode season.

You can watch the replay of the Paley Center event to learn all.

 Lydia Gettin' Stunty

We’ll see a far more physical Holland Roden when Teen Wolf returns. Her character Lydia spent much of previous seasons being victimized or investigating the supernatural with just an occasional banshee scream thrown in here and there. Holland says that’s about to change in Season 5. “I have stunts this season so, there’s a different aspect to her behavior this season. She gets to flex her physicality which is fun for me. She gets in on the physical action which I’m proud of.”

To clarify, Holland is not doing stunts herself. She says her character will be more involved in the action scenes.  TWBBFL (Teen Wolf Best Bros for Life)

A great deal has changed for Dylan O’Brien and Tyler Posey since they met each other during Teen Wolf auditions back in 2009 but not their strong bond of friendship.

The pair lived together and was practically inseparable during the filming of Teen Wolf Seasons 1 and 2 in Atlanta. When the show moved to Los Angeles for Season 3, they no longer shared a house but stayed close even off the set.

During the past couple of years, with Dylan spending more and more time working on projects outside Teen Wolf (The Maze Runner, The Scorch Trials), they don’t see each other as much but remain close.

Reunited last month to start filming Teen Wolf Season 5, the relationship picked right back up immediately. Posey credits mutual respect as the cornerstone of the lasting friendship, “Just the simple things, we really, really respect one another and it goes really deep, our relationship."

Just before the cast’s first appearance at PaleyFest, Dylan related a special “Bro-Moment” the two shared at Teen Wolf Studios in Northridge, California. “The other night we both wrapped at work and I was showing him a song in my car and we ended up sitting there for like an hour,” Dylan says. “It was after work. We could have gone home but we just sat and talked."

Posey says it was one of those intangible, unexplainable friendship moments. “We’ve been friends forever and we always have deep talks but this was different.”

No matter what the future may hold for the pair, Dylan says the bond forged in those early days of Teen Wolf won’t be broken. “We’ve been through a lot together me and T-Pose and I’ll always love him like a brother. We’ll always be brothers.” Posey agrees, “We’ve grown up together. We’re not these little kids anymore… I’m gonna start crying.”