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Supernatural to be syndicated starting January 2010

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Dorian Thompson

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Supernatural rights acquired

Starting January 4, Supernatural repeats will be aired in second run syndication on TNT at 10 a.m ET weekdays. Woot! :techman: There'll be a ten hour marathon on February 15. Proves that you definitely don't need 100 eps for syndication. It's only aired 92 episodes to date.
 
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Dorian Thompson said:
Supernatural rights acquired

Starting January 4, Supernatural repeats will be aired in second run syndication on TNT at 10 a.m ET weekdays. Woot! :techman: There'll be a ten hour marathon on February 15. Proves that you definitely don't need 100 eps for syndication. It's only aired 92 episodes to date.
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100 isn't a hard number set in stone, it's just goal to shoot for. When the series ends in a few months, it'll have more than that and work well in the rotation.
 
If Kripke can bring the story, I myself will be looking forward to a Season 6.

I'm not really sure how it would work though... and that has me intrigued.
 
Technobuilder said:
If Kripke can bring the story, I myself will be looking forward to a Season 6.

I'm not really sure how it would work though... and that has me intrigued.
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Eh, as much as I love the show, I'd rather see it finish this season at its natural end point. A good, solid five seasons is all any show should aim for, especially a heavily serialized one like Supernatural.
 
Hanukkah Solo said:
Technobuilder said:
If Kripke can bring the story, I myself will be looking forward to a Season 6.

I'm not really sure how it would work though... and that has me intrigued.
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Eh, as much as I love the show, I'd rather see it finish this season at its natural end point. A good, solid five seasons is all any show should aim for, especially a heavily serialized one like Supernatural.
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I agree. I haven't seen any of this new 5th season, but how exactly do you top the Apocalypse? Anything else they do will feel smaller, unless they do a second Apocalypse, which is just kinda lame. And the show, as funny as it is, doesn't have quite the same self-awareness that Buffy had in order to make jokes about recurring apocalypses.
 
Dorian Thompson said:
Supernatural rights acquired

Starting January 4, Supernatural repeats will be aired in second run syndication on TNT at 10 a.m ET weekdays. Woot! :techman: There'll be a ten hour marathon on February 15. Proves that you definitely don't need 100 eps for syndication. It's only aired 92 episodes to date.
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Yeah... it's not like TNT went "Well we want the show, but there are only 99 episode so we will pass". It's just a made up figure, look at Star Trek reruns. Bones has been doing reruns for years at most likely 60 episodes, but they realize it will be around awhile.

Hell, some newer show with like 26 episodes from CBS got picked up. Forgot the name.
 
At any rate, it's definitely an improvement over Charmed in the mornings. Of course that wouldn't take much. With all the other countries that SPN airs in, this additional syndication here in the States will put a pretty penny in Warners pockets. SPN was voted the most popular foreign show in Japan recently. The Asian countries just love their horror. SPN is huge in Malaysia, too. And Russia. And Brazil, etc....
 
Dorian Thompson said:
At any rate, it's definitely an improvement over Charmed in the mornings. Of course that wouldn't take much. With all the other countries that SPN airs in, this additional syndication here in the States will put a pretty penny in Warners pockets. SPN was voted the most popular foreign show in Japan recently. The Asian countries just love their horror. SPN is huge in Malaysia, too. And Russia. And Brazil, etc....
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I'm actually really glad the show has done well for itself. I dug it when it first started, and I was worried that it would get canned. Even though it's not a massive hit, I like that it's managed to stick around and tell its story.
 
It lasted because the two leads had the good fortune of some true character development, and not by taking off their shirts whenever possible a la the CW formula. Kripke admitted in one of his Q&A's that they started focusing more on character than initially planned because the writers recognized what they had with the lead actors' chemistry. They lucked out and they were smart enough to recognize what they had and run with it. They wrote their characters as adults, not overgrown horny teens. At 27 and 31, Padalecki and Ackles are getting long in the tooth to be main characters for the CW. Then there's Jim Beaver, who's 60.... :lol: Oh, Dawn O must be so confused.
 
Bumping, albeit, a little late...I saw the tv listing yesterday, and intended to bump this thread, but I got sucked into reading a Doctor Who finale thread and...forgot!
Sorry Sam, sorry Dean. :rolleyes:
 
I never watched this, mainly because it was on the CW and because I said to myself, "Dean from Gilmore Girls is too much of a simp to fight supernatural monsters" and so I never gave it a chance.

If it eventually gets a syndication slot that isn't during the work day, I would probably check it out.
 
Dude. Dean from Gilmore Girls has gained about 30-50 pounds of muscle since those days. He doesn't even look like the same person. The two characters are very, very different. I hope you check out the show, because it's not typical CW twilight, Gossip Girl, Smallville fare.

EDIT--Dean from Gilmore Girls, now Sam from SPN, beating the crap out of his older brother, Dean. Very un "Dean from Gilmore Girls" like. :lol:
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Since this is the latest Supernatural thread:


The apocalypse may have to wait. CW boss Dawn Ostroff says Supernatural creator Eric Kripke is warming to the idea of a sixth season.

“I think he’s in that state of mind,” she says. “I had lunch with Eric the other day and he’s really excited about the show right now. I think he feels this season has been really satisfying for him. He’s certainly not running out of ideas by any stretch of the imagination.”

Ostroff, who says Kripke has been “hitting it out of the park” creatively this season, also points to Supernatural’s ratings success as proof the show has a lot of life left in it. “The ratings are up,” she says. “We have more young women coming to the show than ever before. There aren’t a lot of shows that you can say are doing better in their fifth year.”
 
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