More Werewolves in the Coming Weeks

Season three of MTV's Teen Wolf continues Monday night (January 6, 2014) after a four month hiatus. Here is a trailer to get you started.  You can also catch the full last episode at the MTV website, which should bring you somewhat up to speed (it even circles back to the very first episode of the series). 

The series has been getting more complex with time but more interesting with the addition of new characters and ideas.  For instance, this season plays on Japanese folklore and the Kitsune myth (as if werewolf folklore was not enough).  You can read more about the myth here. 

And if this is not enough you can try out Canadian werewolves.  And we thought the Canadians were such a pleasant lot (except for that Toronto mayor). The new series, Bitten, premieres on SyFy the following Monday (January 13, 2014).   Here is the quick summary from SyFy:

Based on the Women of the Otherworld novels by #1 NY Times best-selling author Kelley Armstrong, Bitten is an emotionally charged supernatural thriller starring Laura Vandervoort (Smallville, Ted) as Elena Michaels, the lone female werewolf in existence. Desperate to escape both a world she never wanted to be part of and the man who turned her into a werewolf, Elena has abandoned her pack and taken refuge in a new city. There, she works as a photographer and hides her werewolf existence from her new boyfriend. When bodies start turning up in her pack’s backyard, Elena finds herself back at Stonehaven, the werewolves’ ancestral domain. Torn between two worlds and two loves, she quickly realizes that – when push comes to shove – she’ll stop at nothing to defend her pack.

According to Deadline, SyFy acquired the rights to the first 13 episodes late last year.   By the way, the story is set in Toronto, but don't expect a walk-on role for the major in the same way Mayor Rahm Emanuel dropped in on Chicago Fire.  And if you want to read more about the story itself, you can check out the book and related comments on Amazon.