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.
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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.
Hey, do you happen to know what 13×15 was unrounded? I’m really curious how far we adjusted down since it was a 0.534 (thus 0.53) in prelim fast nationals and I’m curious if that was like a 0.524 or like a 0.516.
0.520
A perfect flat 0.52? Thanks. =)
Supernatural is my whole entire life if it is cancelled I will die inside and slowly rot outside
Love it love it love it.
Just really miss the humor of Dean and it being just hunting bad things. It seems like something is missing. Love this show! Want it too keep going. As much as I’m looking forward to Wayward Sisters, We need Supernatural!
I’ve whatched sn from start to finish 4 times!!! I hope they have another season!!!
Oh please! Supernatural’s ratings might not be good compared to those of a show on one of the top three networks, but for The CW they are excellent (I believe they are consistently in the number 3 slot for ratings on all the CW shows). If Wayward Sisters does get off the ground, their team should wish to do half as well as Supernatural still does after 12 seasons in the can.
To be honest, the shows that are good are the ones with Jack. The writing too is really off. The story line is way too contrived. Sam and Dean when there is no Jack, just seem lack luster and paper replicas of all the other seasons. The story line with the vampire as the gas clerk was just horrible. So the vampire comes willingly back so Sam and Dean can slaughter it just in time for the “vamp who changed you blood.” That was one instant change of Doug to vampire Doug, which would seem reasonable if it had ever… Read more »
I’m curious why Breakdown just got finalized at 0.6 when it ranked in at a 0.567 or round up to 0.57. Huh.
We don’t have unrounded finals yet. I believe the 0.567 you’re quoting is an unrounded fast affiliate rating.
Thanks for the quick reply! I was under the impression that was closer to finals (esp since the 0.4 0.6 0.7 demos didn’t average out right per bracket and it made a lot of sense.) – I saw the * of pending disappear and got confused.
Also I was wondering if you would be able to clarify, I’ve seen conflict over 13×6 – other sources said finals adjusted up to 0.7, but you never updated that so I was wondering for insight regarding.
http://www.spottedratings.com/2017/10/spotted-ratings-thursday-101917.html
The 0.66 is the unrounded final number. It was actually 0.659.
Thank you. I’ll have to skim through and see if the other sources ever updated theirs down like that, kinda need to sort out who-where I’m pulling numbers from for accuracy, thanks for the replies.
13 seasons and still 1 of CW top shows.!!
Supernatural should absolutely be renewed for a 14th season! And honestly season 13 is one of there’s best so far! Love what there doing with the show!!! Please don’t stop!!
“Supernatural’s” 0.5 was a season low, excluding last week’s episode, which was classified as a special. It was on http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com Why it’s still in this chart ? Thanks
Because it’s part of the season order. It was a regular episode.
It might be worth including the listing but removing it from the averages, the network itself intends to so I don’t know why they’re in the number set here. And/or averaging out a second set that would be the network’s average in the end. Interesting for fans to follow.
Season 13 is not about Sam & Dean, they are just supporting a long list of side characters and their drama. Next to season 12 S13 is worse so far.
SUPERNATURAL, is a great show, but you got to pick up the action a bit.!! bring back some of the old favorites, bobby and ruby & MAG.!! more action please.
SUPERNATURAL is a great show, it should be renewed, with the same cast and crew.Many people including myself love the show. I wish the cast wishes the same .
I think that Supernatural should definitely be renewed. I love this show. As long as the cast wants to continue I will definitely watch. I know alot of people that feel the same.