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Supernatural to be syndicated starting January 2010

I'm still soooo wary of the idea of a sixth season. Maybe they can pull it off, but I'm still glad that the two leads' contracts are up after season 6. I don't want my little show that could to turn into Smallville.....or Heroes. shudders :eek:

Now that some 18-34 year old female Nielsen viewers are looking SPN's way, suddenly Dawn Ostroff cares. Must have shocked her to death to see SPN win the People's Choice Award for favorite sci-fi genre show. :lol: SPN is getting some female viewers courtesy of vampire diaries which, coincidentally, Dawn Ostroff had to be convinced to put on the schedule. She didn't want it. I think that's hilarious.
 
Well in fairness Dorian any season it has shown any form of ratings growth she has been positive about the show (This and, even more so last seasons remarkable across the board ratings growth).

I have long said that I thought Kripke would in fact agree to a sixth season (though he still hasn't). I just can't see him giving his baby up, especially as the actors have been very verbal that they don't want anything beyond season 6 (though actors have been known to change their mind, I don't think they will and I certainly can't see the CW pony up enough money to help change their mind).

Though I don't think they will delay the conflict between Michael and Lucifer for another year (though again they have dramatically altered their plans before both on their own and due to events beyond their control).

I do have to admit I was very surprised by the win for People's choice as VD is very popular and True Blood (Is very, very popular, though I still can't get into the show that much as it is way to campy for me).

Hopefully one way or another the writers are told if their will be a season six and if the studio wants them to delay they conflict or if they can end it this season and start some other type of story line for a sixth season.
 
Now, I haven't seen any of the fifth season, but if they've been going in a certain direction at a certain pace, I would rather end with season 5 than drag things out into a season 6 that wasn't supposed to exist in the first place.
 
Aragorn said:
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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how many networks care as much as she seems to?
 
As a complete aside, I have just started watching this show. My wife borrowed the first two seasons from a coworker, and half-way through the second season, I must admit that I'm enjoying it.

Supernatural has its share of problems IMHO, the plots are a little repetitive and sometimes the effects are iffy, but I've really come to appreciate the witty banter (mostly Dean) and the serialized plot. Not a bad show.
 
Brikar99 said:
Now, I haven't seen any of the fifth season, but if they've been going in a certain direction at a certain pace, I would rather end with season 5 than drag things out into a season 6 that wasn't supposed to exist in the first place.
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Ideally this is true, but the show has never stuck with its plan in the first place, and so much of the show has changed from what they originally planned.

A lot of the show pace and major story aspects have changed, and changed dramatically.

Andy, Ava, and the others were supposed to go mid 3rd season. Dean was never supposed to go to hell. Sam would have gone dark side a full season earlier embracing his abilities to save Dean from going to hell. Angels were never intended to be a part of the show, certainly not active characters.

The writers strike (something they didn't have a say in, for example) had a huge, huge impact on the show. Then of course, the writers get new ideas and new inspiration, see things that don't work or things that bore them all have really, really changed the original plans for the show.

So things that are outside the writers plans, can be (though of course can also go sour) great, great things.
 
Colonel Green said:
As a complete aside, I have just started watching this show. My wife borrowed the first two seasons from a coworker, and half-way through the second season, I must admit that I'm enjoying it.

Supernatural has its share of problems IMHO, the plots are a little repetitive and sometimes the effects are iffy, but I've really come to appreciate the witty banter (mostly Dean) and the serialized plot. Not a bad show.
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The effects are weak, the show has never, never had the budget for either makeup effects or CGi effects. And the plots are often fairly soft (though not always), but the show at its heart isn't an action or adventure show (both of which require much stronger plots to truly succeed), but a character show. The writers learned about ten episodes into the first season that focusing on the relationship of this family (Dean and Sam) didn't cost anything. That being a low budget show didn't have any negative impact on being a character drama. In fact they could focus in on that and rely on the strength of the actors and the dialogue to make up for the short comings they have as a production. And that is where the show truly does excel. In nearly 4 decades of watching drama's I honestly don't know a single show that has done two male siblings as well as this show has.
 
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