Wolf Pack, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, will not return to Paramount+ for a second season.

Although the drama series never was officially renewed for Season 2, the team was actively working on it, with production having been slated to begin in February, sources close to production told Deadline. Series creator Jeff Davis told the cast about the cancellation this week.

It comes as Paramount+ continues cutting costs, which also includes mass layoffs. Bob Bakish addressed this in a memo to his team on Thursday that the company will continue to reduce its global workforce “to operate as a leaner company and spend less” after Deadline revealed over the weekend that the company was bracing for more staff cuts, thought to be in the hundreds including the programming teams.

Bakish said that Paramount would be “closely managing costs” and said it was “focusing our resources on the most powerful, resonant franchises, films and series that perform across platforms globally”.

Based on the book series by Edo Van Belkom, Wolf Pack follows a teenage boy, Everett (Armani Jackson), and girl, Blake (Bella Shepard), whose lives are forever changed when a California wildfire awakens a terrifying supernatural creature. Wounded in the chaos of its attack, the teens inexplicably are drawn to each other and two others, fraternal twins Harlan (Tyler Lawrence Gray) and Luna (Chloe Rose Robertson), who were adopted 16 years earlier by a park ranger after another mysterious wildfire. As the full moon rises, all four teens come together to unravel the secret that connects them – the bite and blood of a werewolf.

Gellar and Rodrigo Santoro also star in the series, which premiered in January 2023.

Davis and Gellar executive produce alongside Joe Genier and Mike Elliott of Capital Arts. Jason Ensler also executive produces.

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As you may know, the first season of Wolf Pack ended its run back on March 16th and since then, we haven’t heard much about whether Paramount+ would renew it or not. After Sarah’s multiple comments on how they have opened a writers room for a potential second season, it’s the creator Jeff Davis who took onto his Instagram to share where the show stands in terms of a renewal:

People have been asking me about when Season 2 of Wolf Pack will be announced. The truth is that while we’re working hard in the writers room, the show is not a lock for pickup. It may even be “On the bubble.” Some shows are a hit right out of the gate. Some need to find their audience. Teen Wolf was never a true ratings success, mostly a social media curiosity. That is, until it found its surprisingly rabid and dedicated fanbase all across the world. read the rest of the post

So please use your social platforms and tag Paramount+ to let them know you WANT a second season of Wolf Pack!

Sarah Michelle Gellar will be presenting at the May 7th MTV Movie & TV Awards ceremony where Wolf Pack is nominated for Best Show.

The first round of presenters for the 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards have been announced.

MTV unveiled Thursday the star-packed lineup set to take the stage for the May 7 ceremony that recognizes the biggest and best in movies and television, across scripted and unscripted.

The first round of presenters include Jamie Lee Curtis, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Gal Gadot, Halle Bailey, Anthony Ramos, Ashley Park, Ayo Edebiri, Busta Rhymes, Dave Burd “Lil Dicky,” Dominique Fishback, Stephanie Hsu, Riley Keough, Sam Claflin, Camila Morrone, Suki Waterhouse and Tiffany Haddish. read more at the source

Sarah Michelle Gellar is the embodiment of late ‘90s teen dreams thanks to iconic roles in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Cruel Intentions” and “I Know What You Did Last Summer.” After a self-imposed hiatus she recently returned to television with “Wolf Pack,” a show from “Teen Wolf” showrunner Jeff Davis which again deals with the traumas of teenhood. This time, however, she plays an ass-kicking investigator with a mysterious past as well as taking on an executive producer role on the project. “I like scheduling and budgets and all that,” she tells Variety in Cannes, where Gellar is in town to pick up a well-deserved Canneseries Icon Award. (Gellar says she was also offered an opportunity to direct “Wolf Pack,” which she turned down).

“I very much was ready to come back,” the actor/EP explains of why she chose this moment to return to screens, although she admits there was “some apprehension.” “Like, do people still want to see you? Does it still work?” The script for “Wolf Pack” initially drew her in but it was the show’s deeper themes that sealed the deal. “One of the things I loved about “Buffy” was that the monsters were a metaphor for the horrors of adolescence,” Gellar says. “And ‘Wolf Pack’ was taking that concept and doing it about [what they] face now: anxiety, depression, isolation. I really loved having a way to speak about that without being preachy, but sort of opening up that dialogue.”

Gellar’s already in talks for a second season – “the conversations are happening,” she tells Variety – and, for the first time, she’s seriously considering embarking on her directorial debut, if the right project comes along (“I think if something came my way where I said, ‘Oh, that’s my story to tell’”). As for the recently-announced “Cruel Intentions” TV adaptation? “I’ve learned a lesson with that,” she says. — read more at the source.