MTV has renewed "Scream" for a third season. But unlike the first two season with 10 and 13 episodes, "Scream" Season 3 is going to be a mini-series with only six episodes. The reduced number of episodes and another set of turnovers spark the rumor that this is going to be the last season of the hit teen movie franchise adaptation.
"Scream" has just been confirmed to return for another season, as reported by Deadline. The renewal of the series also comes with a change in showrunner following the departure of Michael Gans and Richard Register. Gans and Register replaced Jill Blotevogal and Jaime Paglia when "Scream" Season 2 kicked in. The new showrunners for the third season are not yet announced.
With a lot of turnovers in the horror-slasher series and the show's bumpy performance on TV, "Scream" may be seeing its last season, although MTV would not confirm that just yet. Deadline noted that "Scream" viewers dropped to 377,000 viewers in Live+same day in Season 2, which is less than half of the viewers it gathered in Season 1 when it debuted in June 2015 with 1.03 million viewers.
No details yet are revealed regarding the casting, location or production. But there will be a two-hour "Scream" Halloween special on Oct. 18. Picking up eight months after Kieran (Amadeus Serafini) was revealed to be the killer and was arrested, the special run will set the stage of "Scream" Season 3. The synopsis tease, "Just when they thought they were safe, the Lakewood survivors find themselves in another bloody standoff, leaving them to wonder - is an old legend coming back to life, or has murder followed them from Lakewood?"
Harvey and Bob Weinstein, Tony DiSanto, Liz Gateley, Marianne Maddalena and Cathy Konrad are the executive producers of "Scream" while Matthew Signer and Keith Levine are producers.
The two-hour "Scream" Halloween special airs on Tuesday, Oct. 18 at 9 p.m. on MTV.
