As though laboring under a curse, in its early seasons on The WB and The CW, the Supernatural TV show seemed in perpetual danger of being cancelled. After 12 years of their characters living (and dying and resurrecting) hard, Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles have honed in on Supernatural‘s 300th episode as their next milestone — one which would take them halfway into a 14th installment. With the potential spin-off, Wayward Sisters, set to debut as a backdoor pilot during this 13th season, can this long-running series perform well enough in the Nielsen ratings to get them there? Will Supernatural end with lucky 13, or will their ’67 black Impala, Baby, steer them safely to a season 14 renewal? Stay tuned. ***
A paranormal horror drama, season 13 of Supernatural stars Jared Padaldecki and Jensen Ackles as Sam and Dean Winchester. The CW cast also includes Misha Collins, Mark Pellegrino, and Alexander Calvert. This year, guest stars include Samantha Smith, Kim Rhodes, Briana Buckmaster, Kathryn Newton, Katherine Ramdeen, Loretta Devine, Clark Backo, Yadira Guevara-Prip, Christian Keyes, Chelsey Reist, Keith Szarabajka, and Jeffrey Vincent Parise.
The 13th season of Supernatural kicks off immediately after the events of the season 12 finale, in which Crowley (Mark Sheppard) sacrificed himself, and Lucifer (Pellegrino) killed Castiel (Collins), before disappearing into a dimensional rift with the Winchester brothers’ mother, Mary (Smith). In the wake of the newest Nephilim’s birth, Sam and Dean have to figure out how to deal with the young, powerful Jack (Calvert), while Mary must survive life in the breach with his father, Lucifer. Additionally, this season of Supernatural will also include an animated episode featuring Scooby-Doo.
5/18 update: You can see the latest night’s ratings in context.
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For comparisons: The 12th season of Supernatural averaged a 0.60 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 1.675 million total viewers (Live+SD).
Note: These are the Live + Same Day Ratings which include “live” viewing plus delayed DVR viewing, up until 3am local time that same night. Ratings marked with an “*” are the fast affiliate ratings and will be updated with the Live+SD numbers when they are made available. Typically, networks get paid for C+3 ratings which includes DVR viewing within three days of the original airing when commercials are watched. Those numbers are rarely released to the press.
What do you think? Do you still like the Supernatural TV series? Should this CW TV show be cancelled or renewed for a 14th season?
***4/2/18 update: The CW has renewed Supernatural for season 14 for the 2018-19 season. Details here.
writers are killing this show.!! keep killing the wrong people, killing gabriel again is going to cost the ratings.!!!!
Of all the things that would cost ratings, that’s probably not one of them – the show survived just fine without him for years. Director Robert Singer having some sort of stroke and thinking it’s 1973 filming Lois and Clark with a finale full of cheesy wire lines and freeze frames, on the other hand, lmao
Wasn’t the total viewership for the 22nd episode 1.94? I also remember the 18-49 demo was 0.60.
Why did you change it?
Supernatural and Arrow both adjusted down in the finals. Their ratings were artificially inflated in the fast affiliates because of a baseball preemption in New York.
Supernatural is the best series of all
Supernatural has already been renewed for season 14!
Yes, just as the update in the post states.
supernatural is the definition of trash tv
I think you have Supernatural confused with Arrow
I discovered this series at season 3 and was almost instantly hooked. I will continue to watch this series until the bitter end and a bitter end it will be for me… very few shows have kept me interested this long and I am 41 years young. I love watching the boys do what they do; I buy each episode as it comes out and will continue to do so. It seems a little silly to say it but this show is the one bright spot in my week that I can count on, please keep it up!
The ratings appear to me that there are more viewers than ever. Nine friends of mine have powered through 12 seasons on Netflix alone after my constant retelling of episodes they had no clue what I was talking about. They decided to watch…I am guessing I am a great summarizer and convinced them to watch lol….they have all said awesome show and are all in love with Sam, Dean and Castiel! This show offers everything scary…drama…mystery..humour (love that Dean Winchester) and makes you anxious and look forward to the next episode! Last series that ever had this affect on most… Read more »