Supernatural has been renewed for a sixth season!
Sera Gamble will succeed Erik Kripke as Showrunner but Kripke will remain actively involved in the show as executive producer. Here's a quote from the article:
"[In a nutshell, producer and director Robert Singer summed it up best: "Year six won't have the scope that this season has had. It's tough to top the Apocalypse."
Writer Sera Gamble agreed, saying "Why would you ever try to go bigger than Lucifer?" Instead, her idea for the future of Supernatural is "You just turn left and go a whole other direction. The show has never really been about God and the angels and demons, it's a show about Sam and Dean."
Gamble added, "There has always been a deep well to jump into in the boys' relationship...We have the opportunity to go back from the epic to a more intimate story."]"
The show will likely go back to the stand-alones that Season One had. I think it's a great way to end the series, and I'm so glad that I don't have to say goodbye to it this year

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