Supernatural Series Creator Eric Kripke Discusses the Third Season

"Two brothers running around in a cool muscle car carrying a trunk full of weapons designed to do battle with things that go bump in the night." That's creator and executive producer Eric Kripke giving reporters gathered around him at the 28^th Annual San Diego Comic Con a succinct summation of the premise of his hit CW Network/Warner Bros. series Supernatural, which stars the highly talented Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles as Sam and Dean Winchester, the two hot looking, heroic 'supernatural hunter' brothers with the cool car.

With talk turning to the upcoming third season of Supernatural, Eric Kripke will be the first to admit that at the end of season two of Supernatural, it was not a given that that the cult favorite series would return for a third season.

"We did not know we were coming back, and while we were hopeful for the renewal to come through we were all on the edge of our nerves waiting for word to come through about our fate and quite frankly behind the scenes there was some fighting going on to make sure the series came back for a third season," Kripke said.

Even with the fate of Supernatural hanging in that balance, Kripke says that they couldn't let that affect the storytelling they wanted to set up for the third season of Supernatural while still working on season two and they had to be prepared to hit the ground running if that renewal came through.

"We couldn't say 'I don't know if we're coming back so things have to be wrapped up or not wrapped up'. Instead we just had to go on telling the story we wanted to tell at the pace we wanted to tell it and just hope for the best," he said.

Those hopes for a renewal of Supernatural for a third season were thankfully fulfilled and the quirky, highly imaginative, well-acted and smartly done series will be premiering on the CW Network on Thursday October 4^th at 9PM (EST).

Moving forward into the third season, Kripke shared some insight into what the writer's room has planned for Supernatural and the Winchester brothers as they face new challenges and old adversaries.