CW renews Arrow, Vampire Diaries, Supernatural, The Originals
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No surprise for the renewals of Arrow, Supernatural, The Vampire Diaries, and The Originals.
Supernatural will now match Smallville in terms of number of seasons, while Smallville will remain slightly ahead in terms of number of episodes. If Supernatural gets an eleventh season it'll become the longest running SFF show, in both seasons and episodes, in the history of the WB/CW. At that point it would match 7th Heaven, the longest-running show in the history of the WB, in number of seasons, but remain just behind it in number of episodes.
Beauty and the Beast is likely a goner, while The Tomorrow People is right on the borderline for CW ratings and its fate will be decided by how it does in its new timeslot and how The 100 and Star-Crossed fare.
Supernatural will now match Smallville in terms of number of seasons, while Smallville will remain slightly ahead in terms of number of episodes. If Supernatural gets an eleventh season it'll become the longest running SFF show, in both seasons and episodes, in the history of the WB/CW. At that point it would match 7th Heaven, the longest-running show in the history of the WB, in number of seasons, but remain just behind it in number of episodes.
Beauty and the Beast is likely a goner, while The Tomorrow People is right on the borderline for CW ratings and its fate will be decided by how it does in its new timeslot and how The 100 and Star-Crossed fare.
You sure about that? If I'm counting right then Supernatural should finish with 195 episodes after this season, so if they get another 23-episode order (which they have gotten the past three seasons) then they should finish at 218 episodes, tying Smallville. I don't see the show going eleven seasons, since IIRC Ackles and Padalecki are only signed through Season Ten, but I never expected it to get to a ninth season, either, so who knows.
If my count is correct, then part of me kinda hopes they'll get a 24-episode order just so they can finish with one more episode than Smallville.
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Whoops, you're right. I was erroneously thinking that Smallville ended up with 219 episodes, while it actually ended up with 218. So, yes, a 23-episode tenth season would bring Supernatural up to an equal number of episodes and a 24-episode order would surpass Smallville.
Whoops, you're right. I was erroneously thinking that Smallville ended up with 219 episodes, while it actually ended up with 218. So, yes, a 23-episode tenth season would bring Supernatural up to an equal number of episodes and a 24-episode order would surpass Smallville.
Surely 7th Heaven Counts as a Supernatural show?
How the HELL is "Supernatural" still on the air?!?
I stopped watching this back at the end of S5, IIRC - the one where either Sam or Dean(shows how little I cared as I cannot even remember which brother it was!)is looking in through the window at his brother in a nice little house with a nice little wife and family. It was designed as the end of the series and SHOULD have been the end. As it was, the show was old and stale THEN.
Time to put this dog out of its misery!!!
I stopped watching this back at the end of S5, IIRC - the one where either Sam or Dean(shows how little I cared as I cannot even remember which brother it was!)is looking in through the window at his brother in a nice little house with a nice little wife and family. It was designed as the end of the series and SHOULD have been the end. As it was, the show was old and stale THEN.
Time to put this dog out of its misery!!!
This is the very day that Supernatural is renewed for as possibly long as it can be renewed, it is as alive as it can be... The drive to put it out of it's well deserved misery begins tomorrow.
It's one of the network's highest rated shows and arguably its best.
The ratings will probably continue to be good enough to warrant an eleventh season of Supernatural. Whether it continues or ends will rely on whether the stars decide to sign up for a continuation or call it a day.
It's still good, the audience still likes it, the stars still want to do it and apparently they still make a profit, why the HELL would it not be on the air anymore?
Arrow is better.
If you stopped watching 5 years ago, why do you even care? Plenty of people, myself included, have continued to enjoy it.
I said arguably.Arrow is better.
I'd have agreed with you if Supernatural had continued the way it was going in Seasons 6 and 7, but it's really returned to form the last couple of years. I quite enjoy Arrow too, though.
OH.
Go reign, Go!
Go reign, Go!
That's why I started arguing.I said arguably.
Around season 5, Ackles and Padelecki said that they were looking forward to the end of the show, moving on and being able to sleep in their own beds again. Now it's half a decade later and they're still at it. They've really held on.
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I know that IGN did a recent interview with them and the impression was that the stars and show runners are willing to continue as long as the ratings hold and the CW wants to do it.
Frankly, the CW does not have much to replace it with. That's probably the main reason that it has held on so long.
They are also creating a spinoff so we'll see how that works out.
At this point, the stars know that this is their steady paycheck so why rock the boat. They both tried movies and neither had much success.
Thus the show, rolls on.
OH.
Go reign, Go!
#LongMaySheReign
ETA: I don't watch SPN(now) but Arrow, The Originals, The Vampire Diaries I keep up with.