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After taking last Friday off for the swan song of veteran Smallville, CW’s Supernatural returned last night for its own season closer. The finale drew 2.1 million viewers and a 0.8/3 in adults 18-49, down 20% in the demo from the show’s last original. With CBS’ established Friday dramas CSI: NY and Blue Bloods in repeat/replaced by 48 Hours Mystery, respectively, after ending their seasons last week, Flashpoint (0.9/3) at 8 PM dropped 31% from last week. Fox (average of 1.5/6) won the night in 18-49 with a new Kitchen Nightmares (1.6/6), the highest-rated program of the night, followed by a repeat of the unscripted series (1.4/5). ABC (1.3/4) was second with a Shark Tank rerun and newsmagazines, followed by NBC, which aired Friday Night Lights (0.9/3, up a tenth) and Dateline.
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Supernatural wasn’t shown in the Chicagoland market due to MLB. So numbers aren’t completely reflective of all viewers.
i love supernatural i watch it everyday episodes back to back. i love dean and sammy are just being brothers.then i love when they become hunters like they’re father and uncle.dawg they each have been to different realms.some earthy and some heavanly and ofcourse the bottomless pit!the battle on earth with castiel,gabriel,etc.,the angels fighting and swabbeling,losing their wings kept me waiting and wondering what next.sorry i’m so late getting on here with my comment ,i’m not that good on the computer,i have reaaly enjoy this show.
I love Supernatural! I don’t understand why it’s not getting more then 2M+ viewers…. Sucks!
There were about three million feer people watchin g the broadcast networks last night (May 20th) and the week before (May 13th).
The reasons?? Two words and one title.
The two words: Commencment Weekend. Perhaps a million or so people were traveling last night to their childrens’/siblings’/friends’ college graduation. Nearly all of the nation’s colleges and universities are holding commencement ceremonies this weekend (may 21st-22nd).
The one title: “Pirates Of The Carribbean”. The newest “Pirates” movie, “On Straner Tides”, earned $35 million yesterday/last night. That probably drew at elst some people away from TV.
Those two things might combine for much of the drop-off in prime-time network viewership last night compared to the previous week.
My Directv guide said that last night’s Flashpoint was a repeat until I double checked. That might be a reason why alot of people didn’t watch it last night.
The finale for Supernatural aired a week after the finale of Smallville — and several days after the finale of essentially all other CW finales. Next time that there’s a 2-hour finale like Smallville’s, the finale (whether one-hour or two-hour) should air the week *before* the higher-profile finale of its timeslot partner and no longer than one day after any of the network’s other finales.
In other words, don’t do orphaned finales.
On any another network, Supernatural woulda had 4 episodes and been off the air.
Props to the CW folks for not developing anything else, the writing staff and crew appreciate it.
To echo the first poster, I just watched the season finale tonight in Chicago. You need to reconcile the numbers after it’s aired in all markets.
In Chicago we didn’t get to see Supernatural until Sunday night, so you had to really look for it. I’m sure that impacted the numbers for the series, and that’s a shame. It was another great season ender.
Not surprised by the low ratings. Starting with season 4, it has become more soap opera than supernatural mystery. Dean and Sam no longer spend the majority of the time looking for ghosts and monsters. No, they go around looking sad, dazed, confused, angry and what not while dealing with this war against the demons.
It’s like watching the last seasons of X-files when it was all about the war between alien races ll over again.
I think fatigue has set in. The show truly jumped the shark ages ago which is too bad because it had a great premise. Some shows shouldn’t go past a number of seasons. Maybe this is one of them.
Supernatural S6 was a Sera Gamble production -her first as showrunner and it showed. They even recycled exterior establishing shots. I’ve got Judeo-Christian fatigue after yet another year of God and the Angels.
It felt like there were more throw-away episodes than ever with no real plan or direction for the show or it’s characters. A real go-nowhere season that ended with a fizzle. I’d rather watch the re-run from last season.