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Geek Girl Authority
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Girl Authority
The Wilderness (and Showtime) Has Chosen to Renew YELLOWJACKETS for Season 4
Highlights Paramount and Showtime have renewed network staple Yellowjackets for Season 4. Yellowjackets Season 3 smashed records for Showtime, becoming the show's most-watched season with the finale as the most-watched episode in series history. Production dates for the fourth season are forthcoming, but will be announced shortly. It Chose … Yellowjackets Season 4 We're gonna hear the Wilderness for at least one more season. Showtime has chosen (hee-hee) to renew Yellowjackets for a fourth season, and guess what? No hunt required (that we know of). RELATED: Yellowjackets : 10 Buzzing Predictions for Season 4 Here's what Chris McCarthy, Co-CEO of Paramount Global and President of Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios, had to say regarding the Season 4 greenlight: ' Yellowjackets has become a cultural juggernaut; with Season 3 shattering all previous records, we are thrilled to announce its renewal for a Season 4 on Paramount+. Ashley [Lyle] and Bart [Nickerson] have masterfully crafted an utterly singular, genre-defying phenomenon: a perfect alchemy of psychological horror, survival thriller and coming-of-age drama that continues to captivate audiences worldwide, brought to life by our extraordinarily talented and beloved cast.' The Cast Season 3 stars Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci, Tawny Cypress, Lauren Ambrose, Sophie Nélisse, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Sophie Thatcher, Samantha Hanratty, Courtney Eaton, Liv Hewson, Steven Krueger, Warren Kole, Kevin Alves, Sarah Desjardins and Simone Kessell, with Elijah Wood in a recurring role. RELATED: Read our Yellowjackets recaps Two-time Academy Award-winning actress Hilary Swank guest stars this season, along with Joel McHale and Ashley Sutton. Based on how Season 3 ended, Swank could get a promotion to series regular in Season 4. If you recall, the Season 3 finale sees Taissa (Cypress) and Misty (Ricci) joining forces in the present timeline to take down Shauna (Lynskey). In the '90s timeline, Mari (Alexa Barajas) inadvertently becomes Pit Girl during a hunt meant to distract Shauna (Nélisse) and Lottie (Eaton). The teens crown Shauna the Antler Queen in the aftermath. Lastly, Natalie (Thatcher) makes contact with the outside world courtesy of the repaired sat phone. The first three seasons of Yellowjackets are now streaming on Paramount+ with Showtime. Season 4 will begin production soon. Our 15 Favorite YELLOWJACKETS Needle Drops Contact: [email protected] What I do: I'm GGA's Managing Editor, a Senior Contributor, and Press Coordinator. I manage, contribute, and coordinate. Sometimes all at once. Joking aside, I oversee day-to-day operations for GGA, write, edit, and assess interview opportunities/press events. Who I am: Before moving to Los Angeles after studying theater in college, I was born and raised in Amish country, Ohio. No, I am not Amish, even if I sometimes sport a modest bonnet. Bylines in: Tell-Tale TV, Culturess, Sideshow Collectibles, and inkMend on Medium. Critic: Rotten Tomatoes, CherryPicks, and the Hollywood Creative Alliance.
Express Tribune
25-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Express Tribune
Yellowjackets season 3 finale hits 3 million viewers and becomes Showtime's second most-streamed series
The Season 3 finale of Showtime's 'Yellowjackets' has reached 3 million viewers within seven days of its release, marking a new milestone for the series, according to a report by Variety. The viewership data includes both linear ratings from Showtime's cable channel and streaming figures from Paramount+, showing significant audience growth. Compared to the Season 2 finale, viewership increased by 19% overall and surged by 54% specifically through streaming. Paramount Global confirmed that the Season 3 finale was the most-streamed episode in the show's history. The premiere episode of the season also set a record at the time, with a 58% increase in streaming viewership compared to the Season 2 premiere. While Paramount did not release detailed weekly ratings throughout the season, the Season 3 premiere reportedly drew just over 2 million viewers during its opening weekend. In contrast, the finale's 3 million total reflects viewership over a full week, emphasizing its sustained audience momentum. This momentum has pushed Yellowjackets into elite territory, becoming the second most-streamed original in Showtime history, behind only 'Dexter: Original Sin.' Overall, Paramount now considers Season 3 the most-watched in the series when factoring in seven-day viewership across all episodes. Chris McCarthy, co-CEO of Paramount Global and President of Showtime and MTV Entertainment Studios, praised the show, calling it 'a fiercely original, genre-bending phenomenon.' He credited its success to creators Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, as well as the show's ensemble cast. The success of Yellowjackets exemplifies Paramount's focus on high-impact originals over quantity.
Yahoo
12-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Will There Be a Season 4 of 'Yellowjackets'? Here's What We Know So Far About the Thriller's Next Chapter
The school yearbook has closed on another shocking season of Yellowjackets. Since the thriller drama first premiered in November 2021, it has featured a mix of high school drama, wilderness survival, cannibalism and some epic '90s needle drops. After a season filled with surprising deaths, no one is safe in either the adult or teen timelines on the show. The show's cast — which originally included Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci, Tawny Cypress, Lauren Ambrose, Simone Kessell and Elijah Wood — expanded in the new season, adding Hilary Swank and Joel McHale. The latest season of Yellowjackets ended with an episode appropriately titled "Full Circle" since it had "some payoff," as actor Steven Krueger explained to PEOPLE. Meanwhile, Jasmin Savoy Brown, who portrays teen Taissa, teased that the season 3 finale "is a big one" and will have fans "screaming at their TVs." At Deadline's Contenders TV panel for Yellowjackets, co-creator Ashley Lyle said tackling each new season is "terrifying, but it's a really exciting challenge." "Luckily, the design of the show and the concept of the show was such that we knew each season would get crazier and more chaotic and more violent and deranged," she explained. So will there be a season 4 of Yellowjackets? Here's everything to know about the drama, including the latest renewal news and what cast members have shared. While Yellowjackets has not been officially renewed for a fourth season, the series has had an increase in ratings this year. In February 2025, Paramount Global announced that the season 3 premiere outperformed the previous season's first episode, with "just over 2 million viewers across Showtime and Paramount+," per Variety. Additionally, Deadline reported the following month that the "season 3 viewership is up 39% over season 2 on Paramount+ with Showtime," and that doesn't include viewers for the Showtime linear channel, where Yellowjackets airs on Sunday nights. Since the series hasn't been given the green light for new episodes, a premiere date has yet to be announced. In the past, season 1 debuted in November 2021, season 2 in March 2023 and season 3 in February 2025. There were nearly two years between seasons 2 and 3, so if the same schedule is kept, we should expect to reunite with the Wiskayok High schoolers sometime in 2027. At the moment, so no cast members have been confirmed to return to Yellowjackets. In September 2022, Lynskey, who has received two Emmy nominations for her Yellowjackets role, told PEOPLE, "I'll do this show as long as I can, honestly." Series co-creators Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson have said they envision a handful of installments to tell the Yellowjackets story. "The original plan was about five seasons, and we feel like we're still on track for that," Lyle told Entertainment Weekly in March 2023. "We don't really see this as being more than a five-season show." "I think that there are shows that can go forever, but I think that when you're telling such a deeply serialized story and it's about these characters' lives, you want to reach a satisfying conclusion and not just drag things out forever," she continued. "This isn't really one of those setup shows where it can go anywhere." At Deadline's Contenders TV panel, Lyle said, "We pitched this show seven years ago. We have an endpoint in mind." "We know where we're heading, but we have an absolute brilliant group of writers that we're working [with]. We have the writers room," she explained. "We have our incredible collaborators in our actors and so we know where we want to go, but we want to leave some room for how we get there.' While speaking about the ending of season 3, Nickerson told The L.A. Times, 'We are kind of banking on another season ... [but] sorry, if we do get canceled." All three seasons of Yellowjackets are streaming on Paramount+ with SHOWTIME. Read the original article on People
Yahoo
11-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘Yellowjackets' Showrunners Break Down Season 3 Finale, All That Shauna Hate and a Potential Season 4
Note: This story contains spoilers from 'Yellowjackets' Season 3, Episode 10. 'Yellowjackets' showrunners Ashley Lyle, Bart Nickerson and Jonathan Lisco teased that Teen Shauna (Sophie Nélisse) would go to some incredibly dark places in Season 3, but some viewers were still not prepared with just how far she went to consolidate her power as the Antler Queen. TheWrap checked back in with Lyle, Nickerson and Lisco about Episode 10 and why Shauna became such a divisive character, ready to betray or kill Mari (Alexa Barajas), Coach Ben (Steven Krueger) and even her own girlfriend Melissa (Jenna Burgess), as well as shutting down the team's chances of being led back to civilization by outdoor guide Kodiak (Joel McHale). Although the series has yet to be renewed for Season 4, they promised that even if the rescued Yellowjackets are not literally in the wilderness anymore, there is still 'a lot of story to mine.' TheWrap: You said that Teen Shauna was going to go really dark in Season 3 and she did. A lot of viewers were not happy about it. Do you think there is less leeway given to female characters than to male characters to 'break bad?' Ashley Lyle: I have been a little surprised by the ferocity of the reactions. I think people are far less accustomed to watching a female character go truly dark. I look to Cersei Lannister as a character who did that in a very interesting way. There's a difference between liking someone and rooting for them. Sometimes it can be fun to watch a villain go dark. There's a voyeuristic quality that we as viewers get to experience when you see somebody doing all the things that you would never, ever do yourself. We can't worry about that as storytellers. We did not go into this show trying to make these women likable. We tried to make them complex and difficult and f–ked up and weird, and we're doing that. Jonathan Lisco: The ferocity of response to where we've taken Shauna this season strikes me as interesting against the backdrop of where we began. For example, a character like Misty (Christina Ricci), when we first meet her, she's watching a rodent drown in a pool. She's done all sorts of really twisted stuff, and yet, a lot of people now say she's the most sympathetic on the show. That's what we're trying to mine, you're rooting for her in some ways, at least I am, despite some of her terrible traits. Bart Nickerson: I'm curious: These people that are very angry right now, are they mad at Shauna, or have they really turned on her? Are they disappointed in her in the way that you get disappointed in your friends? I feel like either they will [continue to] like the character, or they never liked her and they're [now saying], 'Aha. I was right to not like her.' Lisco: Does the world bifurcate into evil and good? Isn't that the whole point that we're trying to ask? What is villainy when you carry such baggage? The point of the narrative is to try and figure that out and to ask these difficult questions. And right now, some of them may be bruised from where we took Shauna. But there's a lot of story left to tell and a lot of cards to turn over, that may change their perspective on that. Lyle: Characters who do bad things are really fun. I have so much respect for Melanie's bravery [as adult Shauna], because there are a lot of actors who do not want to play true villains. She really embraced the darkness of Shauna this season, and not every actor would be willing to do that. Shauna goes absolutely feral in the last few episodes, driving away her fellow survivors and her husband and daughter. How did she manage to present as a normal person in society for so long? Lyle: When we look back at the pilot, it's self-imprisonment. She had created a prison for herself. It was absolute stasis. She created a situation where she could not act out her worst instincts. And what's really fun about the end of this season is, as much as she's grieving the loss of her family, she's breaking out. She's redeeming her own life. And that's very exciting, especially now that we know what she's truly capable of. There were so many major deaths this season. How hard was that to say goodbye to Lottie and Van in the contemporary storyline and Ben and Mari in the '90s timeline? Lyle: It's never easy. These are our colleagues and they're also characters that we love. It's such a cliché, but they're our children. You invent them, you think about them for so long, and you think about how they feel and what they're doing, and then to be the author of their demise is painful. But we also knew going into this show that that was very much a fundamental part of the premise. This was always going to be a part of the show. It's not easy, but it's a necessary evil. Now that the Pit Girl mystery has been solved and the girls are on the verge of being rescued, is the show still on track to go five seasons or does it look more like it might end with four? Lyle: If the world was our storytelling oyster, and we got everything we ever wanted, it would be five. There is a decent amount of story to tell in terms of what happens when they get back, how they are trying to desperately hold their secrets as close as possible. And in the present day, they are far less trusting of each other than they were before. But our main concern is telling a satisfying story that does feel like it comes to a satisfying conclusion. And with the state of the industry right now, you can't predict anything with any real certainty. Our hope is mostly that we get to tell a satisfying story. Nickerson: We have always said the show will tell us when it wants to end. Some things have taken longer, some things have happened quicker than we had hoped. That's the beauty of the creative process, these things take on a life of their own. Determining the final timetable for this show, it's hard to figure out, but we know that once we get there, we'll know it. Lisco: The literal wilderness may no longer be in our show. [But we'll still have] the metaphorical wilderness that they have to traverse to get from the teen characters reintegrating into '90s society to the adult characters that we know. That's a long distance, and I personally think there's a lot of story to mine. 'Yellowjackets' Season 3 is now streaming on Paramount+. The post 'Yellowjackets' Showrunners Break Down Season 3 Finale, All That Shauna Hate and a Potential Season 4 appeared first on TheWrap.
