'Supernatural' Season 12: Showrunner Jeremy Carver Leaving 

will be heading into Season 12 with new leadership.

TVLine has learned that showrunner Jeremy Carver will step down at the conclusion of the current 11th season to focus on his new CW thriller

, which earlier this week was ordered to series. He will be succeeded by the new co-showrunning team of Robert Singer and Andrew Dabb.

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since Season 1 as an exec producer, director and occasional writer. Dabb joined the series in Season 4, working his way up from writer/story editor to co-executive producer. Carver, meanwhile, began as a script writer on

in Season 3. He left following Season 5 to work on Syfy’s

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dubbed a reimagining of the 2000 sci-fi film — centers on a female police detective (

‘s Peyton List) who discovers she is able to speak via a ham radio with her estranged father (also a detective) who died in 1996. They forge a new relationship while working together on an unresolved murder case, but unintended consequences of the ‘butterfly effect’ wreak havoc in the present day.

What do you think about the behind-the-scenes switcheroo? Let us know in the comments, why don’t you.

Sounds like the show will be in good hands. I really want the show to make it to 15 seasons at least.

have watched supernatural from the very beginning. absolutely love this show. havent always enjoyed choices that were made, i.e. bobby’s death, but still here. hope be watching as long as the show lasts

I’m still hoping Bobby will come back from the dead one of these days. :)

I could not agree with you, more. For some reason I would love to see this show go on forever but I am not sure if all the actors would feel this way. With God having made his appearance already, I just do not know where they will be able to go after next season.

While I understand that you’d like to see SPN go on forever I am really hoping it doesn’t. Marvel and DC have expressed strong interest In Jensen Ackles (Dean) for roles in their perspective ‘verses. He’s been considered for past roles but was unable to do them because of the show.

As much as I love Dean SPN is showing its age. I’m hoping S12 is it.

No one is forcing Jensen to stay. He and Jared keep signing the contacts to keep it going and turning down everything else. If this is what he wants to do, you should respect his choice.

Exactly they want to come back otherwise they wouldn’t keep signing

If you think he’d rather do movies, then he shouldn’t keep renewing/signing a contract for Supernatural.

Well it can definitely be loyalty and attachment, plus the care for all the workers. But if the show ends at a good note, all the people might be able to move on…11 years is too long to leave easily.

I’d love to see even more seasons of it so I am happy with both things.

Success as a movie actor isn’t a guarantee, the show is. It’s not that easy, it’s a very hard decision for either of them to make.

Only that, according to Jensen’s own words, HE chose to keep playing Dean instead of doing a Marvel or DC movie. And that’s why fans should respect his choice and stop bitching about lost opportunities and how the show is ruining his career (not that you said anything, but after Asylum16, I’ve seen it around the internet and mostly twitter)

I definitely don’t think Supernatural is running any of their careers they like doing what they are doing and Supernatural is still awesome if anything it’s making their careers better it’s not like they haven’t been in any movies

I really really want it to end with s13. I mean you can’t get more perfect than that given the show’s title. Also it’s been pretty darn good lately and there is just no way it can go indefinitely without having another travesty like seasons 6 and 7. And they’ve done God now so better end it while it’s riding on a creative high.

I was really upset to read this . . . until I saw it was being handed over to Robert Singer. Don’t know if these two have ever been showrunners before so no guarantees, but after this much time I bet they know how to run THIS show, at least.

Then again they also promoted Sera Gamble from within, and we all saw how that worked out.

Yeah, I’m worried. Singer’s ideas aren’t always good ones, and worse, when they are bad he doesn’t listen to other writers (or anyone really). Singer gets his way, even if that way is straight down the toilet. I wouldn’t be worried if I knew he would actually LISTEN to other people when he has an idea that isn’t good. When you do, other people can catch your missteps and make everything stronger overall. You NEED that skill to be a good showrunner but it doesn’t look like he has it.

TBH, I could say all that about Jeremy Carver, and he’s had the show for five unfortunate seasons.

I’m not sure how I feel about the new showrunners, but I’m honestly ecstatic that Jeremy Carver is leaving.

Bob Singer has kind of been a co show runner since the beginning. And officially at least 2 season I know of, including this one.

I’m just glad they get rid of carver. He ruined Sam’s character for me for a long time. s11 has only just started to make me like him again, after s8-s9 made me hate him.

Why is this homophobic Singer is still on the show?And now showrunner?Just unacceptable in 2016

Why do you think he’s homophobic? Because he hasn’t put Dean and Cas together? GET OVER IT, IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN!

Are you kidding? Have you paid attention? I’m not talking about Destiel, I’m talking about respecting women and lgbtq on the show. Get over your damn self, Linda.

We literally have a bisexual God now in an episode Singer himself directed. He’s not homophobic just because he hasn’t made your ship happen do get over yourself, Jae.

Ah right… Because we had that bi-god and gay couple while Singer was in charge. Oh, right, we didn’t, it was after Singer was taken off as Producer that we got that. But make it about a make believe ship so you don’t have to make a real argument.

dude, they’re talking about Charlie. The other writers were crystal clear how strongly they opposed it and what a bad idea it was, but Singer pushed hard for it almost singlehandedly AND GOT HIS WAY. And when people were angry and wanted to talk to him about the problems with ‘kill your lesbians’ he handwaved them and (again) didn’t want to listen. Because of that he’s got a bad rep. If he’s not willing to back off and listen to other people when they say one of his ideas are bad (especially when EVERYBODY says one of his ideas are bad) he shouldn’t be showrunning. He’s not going to be taking advantage of the talent he has if he’s not willing to listen to anybody but himself.

Charlie didn’t die because she was a lesbian. She died because people on this show die. Frequently. Being homosexual isn’t and shouldn’t be a “get out of death free” card for a character.

Because Singer was only a consultant this year. We don’t get that sort of thing when he’s in charge.

yeah, people have been commenting about that, about all the representation SPN has had lately and how it coincided EXACTLY with Singer taking a step back

Yay, Andrew Dabb! His episodes have been really good. #Trust

I hope Robert Singer is in name only. He’s really tone deaf to many issues. Dabb has been running SPN on his own since February. Perhaps Bob will focus on the business side (like getting directors in) and let Dabb focus on story.

That would be ideal… but I won’t hold my breath. More Bucklemming, too, no doubt.

After the fiasco that transpired with the advent of new showrunners on Castle, I hope these two new showrunners have been properly vetted!! It’s a terrible thing to bring new people (and, yes, I know they’ve been around the show for a while) into power on a popular and successful series. They often think they can change it and nobody will notice. WE NOTICE!!!

IF the time ever comes that there is an indication that they are taking it in a different direction than the one fans have come to love and expect, GET RID OF THEM IMMEDIATELY!!!

If the Absent Brain Cells network had only had a brain among them, maybe that travesty would not have occurred and we would still have the Castle premise which kept us all as loyal fans through 7 seasons…S8 was a train wreck from the first episode and went downhill from there. I watched every week hoping that it would get back on track, but the addition of the LokSat situation and that new woman tolled the death knell for my favorite show.

At this point I do not trust new showrunners to respect the environment of the show; they often think “We’ll fix this and make it better.” — BUT, if a show is successful, as Castle was, as Supernatural is, IT AIN’T BROKE,DON’T TRY TO FIX IT!!!

I’m not big on Singer, but Dabb’s episodes are usually very strong. Singer went from executive producer to consulting producer this season, so hopefully he remains secondary to Dabb in terms of decision making.

I really think Singer going to Consultant made this season so good!

I can understand Jeremy Carver wanting to do other stuff and so i wish him well.Plus maybe he knows he’s done everything on Supernatural that he can.As for Supernatural, a change is good for a show because everyone has a different POV.

Ugh, Robert Singer is a stifling force on the show. I hope Dabb (one of the best show writers) is able to keep his crap show direction down. This is seriously bad news.

Carver should stay with supernatural. Best place to be . Sorry to say but the show being human …. well not so good. As you can tell .Hence Caverns returns to SPN smh but honestly it really best place to be. .Just a thought

I don’t usually like shows with female character as the lead, they end up boring me after a season.

Fantastic news about Andrew Dabb. Terrible news about Robert Singer. I was hoping he’d be stepping down soon, and taking his wife with him – Buckner and Lemming write some really terrible episodes.

Please, for the love of Chuck, just let Supernatural end. There comes a time when a show just runs out of story, and Carver has done a good job of stretching out the story-arc of the show over his tenure as showrunner, but I honestly do not understand how Season 12 will be any good. How can it possibly follow this season’s storyline? If we are going to get a Season 12, I sincerely hope it is a shortened season that ends the show. Please. Please. Please. I love the show, but I also recognize that it needs to just END.

I’ve never understood this selfish point of view. If you don’t like Supernatural anymore, stop watching. But wanting it cancelled and taken away from the fans who love it is just selfish.

And that’s a selfish opinion. If someone wants a show to end while they still love it they have every right to express said opinion. It is not selfish to not want a favorite story to become crap.

There are so many shows where I stopped watching because I felt the creativity had run out and I was done with them – The last episode of West Wing I watched was the last one Aaron Sorkin wrote. Virtually every season of Supernatural has ended on a perfectly fine series finale note. If you are ready watch the end of this season as such. I’m going to stick to this ride because the show is primarily about the two leads and the two leads are still there.

See, I honestly think that under new direction, SPN could be better. I know a lot of people rag on seasons 6 and 7, but I feel they at least had good potential. Carver, on the other hand, has pretty much wrecked the show since he became showrunner, and I’m hoping that with someone like Dabb, that can be reversed.

Yay for Dabb (woohoo); no comment about Singer (meh)

Happy to hear the show is being passed into the hands of two people who KNOW the show and the characters and have done great things with the show in the past. Carver was great, but since he chose to step down, at least I’m happy with the choice and I feel like the show is in good hands.

Jeremy Carver wrote many of my all time favorite episodes.(Including Mystery Spot and The Point of No Return, which usually make my top 5 all time episodes) BUT he was also show runner during the catastrophe that was Season 8. And while there have been several great episodes during the last 3 seasons, it the overall season storylines have been disappointing at best and rage inducing at their worst. And the quality control has been nonexistent. There have been SOOO many past-storyline-killing continuity errors that I want to scream just thinking about them.

While he may not have a choice in the worst two offenders (writers). As show runner, he should have at least put a kibosh letting a rogue reaper being the reason they could now stroll into Purgatory when they spent all of Season 6 trying to find it, even though if all Crowley had needed was a reaper I’m pretty sure he could have found one to torture into letting him in. At least with the cage, they gave us Rowena and the book neither of which was around season 5. It was weak but it was something. Unlike with the vessels that again was ALL of season 5 trying to get Sam and Dean to say yes, because vessels were very specific. Now just about anyone can say yes, even an angel possessing someone else. No reason. So why the off didn’t Lucifer do that season 5. Surely fighting the sister of God requires THE vessel if fighting Michael did.

But by far for me the worst thing he oversaw was the travesty that was Sam’s storyline in S8. After 7 seasons of dying and selling there souls for one another and no end of other things. All of sudden, Sam just assumes Dean is dead because he disappeared (even though Cas was there and he can pop in and out) and says oh well and settles down with an annoying vet. We still don’t know what happened in the months leading up to his hitting a dog and Carver didn’t seem to care or about much of anything to do with Sam through many, many of the episodes. He did give us Sacrifice, which was awesome, but didn’t it even come close to undoing the damage to Sam’s storyline.

Sorry Rant over to whomever bothered to stick around :D

All of this is to say. I will missing his writing, even he has just written one episode this season. But as a show runner of Supernatural I won’t miss him at all.

I agree with absolutely all of this. Jeremy Carver, as the headwriter, does have more power than the other writers in what ends up in the show, and handles overall decisions. And he did a really poor job, in my opinion. To be honest, it got so bad, that I stopped watching midway through season 10. Now, I do keep up with it. I know everything that’s happened. But certain things (*cough cough* Amara) are so horrible that I refuse to watch it until I know what the outcome is, because if it’s not great, I’m not wasting my time.

I love this show, and I love the characters, but man management has really ruined the past couple seasons for me. Here’s hoping a regime change will bring about a better season.

I like most of Dabb’s episode. then again I liked Carver’s episodes and look how he turned out as a showrunner. Yuck to Robert Singer as co-showrunner, let’s hope he has nothing to do with the writing, his wife is the WORSE writer in the history of Supernatural.

Either remove Buckner and Eugene-Leming from the staff or never ever let them write a mytharc episode or kill off a beloved character. Charlie’s death was lazy writing at best. Sure it made Dean a rage machine, but he’d been one all season. And regardless killing off a extremely popular LGBT female character for no other reason (and it such an incredibly stupid way) but to motivate the white male straight characters is not exactly knowing your viewing audience. Don’t get my wrong. I’ve been gutted by death’s on the show and still thought the episodes were fantastic. But this just felt like, “Oh we haven’t killed anyone beloved in awhile. Let’s kill Charlie.” Don’t get my wrong I’m not a fan of making any character too precious in die (well except for Sam and Dean), but now we have 4 white male character who are seemingly unable to die. Feel like if you need a shocking death than it really should be Castiel or Crowley. (as much as I like Misha and Mark-although I love Felicia Day so…..)

I personally am done with angel and Castiel storyline, but I know some still like it so I feel bad. So I wish for a spinoff. No? Ah well? I can live with that. Just make a better storyline for him. Though Castiel feels played out to me without different people to interact with except I’ll admit when they do that I just want to get back to Sam and Dean. But the main thing I want from Cas is for him to stop repeating Sam’s storylines. Sam goes with Ruby,lets out Lucifer. Sam has to win back Dean’s trust, Castiel ….. Sam goes a little crazy, Cas goes a lot crazy. And now Sam was Lucifer’s vessel. Cas is Lucifer’s EFFING vessel. Seriously? There are other that are all pale repeat of much better storylines with Sam. At the beginning of S8, I thought okay Sam and Castiel can bond which makes sense since the have SOOO much in common. But no, one conversation and he’s back exclusively talking to Dean.

Which brings me to the next wish. I adored Sam and Dean heart to heart’s but Dean also have heart to heart’s with many, many other people. PLEASE continue to make this more balanced. It’s been better but there is definitely room for improvement. Such as this season I hope to God he has a chance talk to God. He’s and Chuck had several illuminating convos in the past. Surely now that he’s God, Sam will feel like unburdening. Like telling him happened before he hit the dog.

Either remove Buckner and Eugene-Leming from the staff or never ever let them write a mytharc episode or kill off a beloved character. ”

Robert Singer is also co-showrunner. Eugenie Ross-Leming is his wife and he’s the one who wanted Charlie dead. That part of the wishlist is never coming true.

I read that in the comments of this article several times now, but I never read anything about Bob Singer being behind the decision to kill Charlie. His wife is one of the writers of that episode but she’s also killed Kevin and many other characters. Where did someone say he was the one pushing for her death? Can you please link the article or tell me the title?

oh no, anybody but Singer. He was the dude who insisted Charlie had to die when like literally everyone else said it was a terrible idea. We still haven’t recovered the numbers of fans we lost due to that. When people tried to tell him how big a screw up that was, he just got pissed fans were upset. If he had handled himself better, people would have gotten over it much sooner and we wouldn’t have lost so many people. As it is, people were celebrating when it looked like he wasn’t going to be an executive producer any more. This is bad news. I hope they try and focus more on the announcement of Dabb so people don’t start talking like the show is doomed before Singer/Dabb even have a chance to show what they can do

I’m sorry to see car Carver go. Hopefully the two of them can carry-on. As to Jensen sticking around instead of going into movies, Jensen and Jared make good money. And they make a hell of a lot of money going to these conventions and selling their photos and autographs. So I guess they’re doing pretty fine right now. And Jensen is still young, he’s only 37.

Singer’s been co-showrunning this show since the beginning except this season so that’s pretty much business as usual.

As for Dabb, the consensus on IMDb was that he was next in line for the showrunner gig. The writing was on the wall when he rather than Carver was credited for writing the upcoming season’s finale. I hope to see the two of them at Comic Con this summer!

my hope for supernatural season 12 : just pack ‘chuck’ and all his angel to outer space or something .. seriously, they lost a lot of potential story because this god and angels crap. so many supernatural story around the world they can write but yeah lets write about god who thinking like mere human, overemotional angels, or god sister .. what next .. god need vacay and let lucy rules the world or something ..

just because supernatural has zillion loyal fans, it doesnt mean the writers can lazily around, viewers have brain ..

I am glad Singer’s back. He’s been on the show since the very beginning; and it is important to have someone who remembers what happened on seasons 1-3 (since Dabb wasn’t around then). I am not gonna lie, Dabb’s good, but I don’t think he’s the best. I’m a little scared, because he’s not as good as Carver, and he’s not as good as Sera Gamble when it comes to script writing. Robbie Thompson would have been the perfect showrunner. After watching “Don’t Call Me Shurley” (the best episode in the whole series, IMO), I don’t wanna see the show go downhill..

I am totally obsessed with this show. My kind request is just don’t end this show for atleast a few years.hates off to supernatural team for making an awsome show

SUPERNATURAL is and will be a cult classic and will be watched for a long time to come. Mr. Ackles and Mr. Padalecki and all the actors are doing a superb job of keeping us captivated and wanting more. Their devotion to the show shows a bigger devotion to their fans. Thank you all.

So the Nepotism duo is here to stay as well and Dean will do nothing next season while SuperSam thrives. Great news. Great. /s

This is ridiculous. Hopefully, next season is the last one. And this is coming from a fan who has been with the show with years and has loved it very much until now.

Not a good idea guys,, you should stick with what works and supernatural works. And frankly frequency sounds boring!!!

Not a good idea guys.. You need to stick with what works and supernatural is working just fine. And frankly frequency is boring I didn’t like the movie and odds are I will not like the series.

I am so glad they are going to at least have another season.

Will they drop the angel storyline and make it all about the brothers and demons again? That would be great!!!

I’m sure it’ll be great! The reins have been turned over to two highly skilled professionals who’ve been on the Supernatural ship for quite some time! They know our show, know our fandom, & I trust completely in their vision… Thanks, Mr. Carver & best of luck on your next adventure!! <3 #SPNFAMILY

Oh Just show us god and amara’s parents and be done with it. Where are the parents?

Supernatural is by far my all time favorite series!!! And from leaving and returning the show to me never lost no interest to me!! So I’m sure him leaving again will not hurt!! I’m very sure Mr. Singer and mr. Dabb have got this !!! So to end I look very much forward to season 12 I can’t wait good luck guys ..!!!

Watched supernatural sense begging. An have all the series on dvd. Except. Season. 11 but will have it as soon as I can get. Love to watch over. An over. They. Are my guys. Please keep this show. Alive. We love it an all our people

I would sooo much love for supernatural last for eternity!!! I would be heart broken. I do wish jeffrey dead Morgan would make a appearance for his fans and the shows fans. Also, more appearances of Bobby. I really miss him on the show.

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