nothing to do with the film series other than some cast and crew crossover and use of the title/typeface so, really, we shouldn't even be discussing it. Freddy's Nightmares , screening between 1988-1990, took the blueprint of weekly "nightmares" in which a new fresh-faced teen battled deadly dreamscapes from week to week. We actually looked at one episode earlier this year that starred a young John Cameron Mitchell! I doubt we'll be seeing this anytime on TV soon, right? Still, best bet is that any Scream series that does eventuate would take the longform structure that is inescapable on TV these days. As my wise friend Simon says, "Someone sit the MTV execs down and make them watch Harper's Island . That'll put a stop to things." Indeed it is easy to see the format of the series being a new Ghostface killer plaguing a small town each season with the mystery unfolding over 15 or so episodes with the big climactic reveal bringing about an end to the season before moving on to another copycat killer in another town. Depending on how many series the show runs for (if it runs at all), I can actually see it being taken to places that could be really interesting. Scream 2 , for instance, could have been a really fascinating examination of a college campus under threat if given this sort of treatment. Especially given the two worlds that the killers came from. It risks the problem of having its ordinary,