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It is now official. Supernatural has been renewed for a 6th season…but there’s a catch.

The showrunners, Eric Kripke and Robert Singer, will no longer be at the show’s helm after season 5. According to Michael Ausiello at Entertainment Weekly, they will continue to play active roles as executive producers, but someone else will take over the reins in season 6. This is likely to be Sera Gamble, an executive producer and writer who has been with the show since it’s first season.

This change in leadership means that Kripke will be concluding the current storyline at the end season 5 as scheduled; fans will finally get the see the long anticipated end of the apocalyptic, Winchester story; and season 6 will launch a whole new chapter for Supernatural and the Winchesters.

Like other fans, I am excited about a conclusive season 5 finale, cautious about the changes to come after that, but happy that the Winchesters will still be around for yet another season.

SUPERNATURAL!!!

Yes, it is really true. Supernatural has won the People’s Choice Award 2010 for Favorite Sci-Fi/Fantasy Show. Woo Hoo!

Congratulations to Eric Kripke, Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Misha Collins, Jim Beaver, the excellent writers, and all the cast and crew of Supernatural. You truly deserve this award.

Here is a video produced by The CW congratulating it’s Thursday night winners:

Supernatural's season 5 will begin airing on Thursday, September 10, 2009 at 9/8c on The CW Network in the USA.

This is the earliest season launch ever for Supernatural in all it's seasons on The CW. Significantly, this early start means that the season premiere episode will air unchallenged by new episodes from the other major TV networks' regular Thursday lineups. Hopefully, if Supernatural attracts a portion of those networks' audience and if enough new viewers stick around after the daunting competition from The Office on NBC (9/17), Fringe on FOX (9/17), CSI on CBS (9/24), and Grey’s Anatomy on ABC (9/24) return from their summer hiatus, then The CW may dip into their pockets to keep Kripke around for a 6th season of Supernatural. I am keeping my fingers crossed for this to happen.

Filming for season 5 has already begun at the Vancouver, BC studios in Canada. The premiere episode, preliminarily titled, Sympathy for the Devil, will introduce the new recurring character of Lucifer to be played by Mark Pellegrino, currently of Lost and formerly of Dexter. I saw Pellegrino in his former role as Layla's (um, I mean Rita's) abusive ex-husband in the first season of Dexter and he was outstanding. I think he'll be just as “grate” on Supernatural. […spoiler text hidden…]

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A “TV Spotlight” article in the April 10, 2009 issue of Entertainment Weekly (EW) featured Supernatural. It included interviews with Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles and Eric Kripke, and spoilers for season 4 upcoming episodes, but the main focus of the article was the fate of Supernatural after season 5 (it doesn't look promising for a season 6, guys). There was also a small featurette that highlighted 5 episodes that new viewers can see to “get hooked” on Supernatural.

If you would like to read this article, titled “Supernatural: Sexy. Scary. Over?” and written by Alynda Wheat, the online version is here. The mini-section, “Supernatural 101: How to get hooked” can be read here.

OK fans, it is time to cross our fingers again…Supernatural has been nominated for another notable award. This time it is the Saturn Award in the category, “Best Network TV Show”. This is a genre-based award given out annually by the Acadamy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, a California-based organization founded in 1972.

Our show is an underdog competing against shows on bigger networks with larger audiences. These include “Heroes”, “Lost”, “Fringe”, “Life on Mars”, and “Terminator: The Sara Connor Chronicles”. Let us hope that the voting committee will look past the others' popularity and recognize Supernatural for the quality program it is.

For a full list of nominees, visit www.saturnawards.org/nominations.html. The award show is scheduled for June 25, 2009.

Wonderful news! The CW has announced that Supernatural will be renewed for the fall 2009 season. This news was not unexpected as season four's ratings is the highest since season one. The only surprises are the unprecedented early announcement (Feb 24th) and that it occurred before sweeps.

I'm glad that The CW executives recognized that Supernatural deserved to be renewed early. Next, they should increase the budget so that the show can afford to bring back fan favorite characters (JDM!) for an episode or two.

Now that the fifth season is a go, the biggest question on every fan's mind is whether the series is will end with five seasons. Kripke has said more than once that he planned for a 5-season run for the show. The benefit of this planned conclusion is that the show's storyline can be wrapped up neatly and fans can finally learn what is Sam's true destiny and whether the brothers' ultimately survive with their relationship intact. We wouldn't be left “hanging” like on other tv shows that abruptly ended. The drawback is that this wonderfully unique and interesting program will no longer air new episodes after 2010. That's a “hard pill to swallow” for enthusiastic Supernatural fans. I anticipate a fan campaign to persuade Kripke to keep the show going will begin soon, if it hasn't already.

A couple spoilery tidbits about Supernatural was published over the past week that may be of special interest to fans.

The first is a holiday gift/promo video of the first 3 new episodes of 2009 that was released by the editors of Supernatural. The best of the 3 was last and is a can't miss for Dean fans. Hehehe…it was inevitable that Dean's “I don't do shorts” quip (from 1×02-Wendigo) would come back to haunt him and he'd end up with his knees bared. You can read about this “gift” at TVaddict.com or just view the video at www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gFeQRECRqM.

The second spoiler comes from a recent interview with Misha Collins. In his interview, Misha revealed that because of the overwhelmingly positive reaction of fans to his character, (more…)