Kripke: 'Supernatural will end with a bang'

Supernatural creator Eric Kripke has insisted that the show will end "with a bang" whether it finishes this season or continues for a sixth.

The executive producer had previously claimed to have a five-year plan for the CW drama, although it was later suggested that the cast were contracted for a possible sixth series.

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, he said: "I did set out to tell a five-season storyline. Quite frankly, I never expected [the show] to make it to five years.

"But now we're in our fifth year, I have every intention of ending the story with a bang and not drawing it out or watering it down. That having been said, I’m looking at this season as the last chapter in this particular story. That doesn’t mean there can’t be a new story. Buffy did it. The X-Files did it."

Kripke went on to say: "You close a chapter on a big mythology storyline and then you begin a new one. One of the things I like about this show is we don't draw out mysteries endlessly. We'll answer a bunch of questions this season and then pose some new ones next season."

He added that he is unsure whether he will be involved in a potential sixth series, saying: "I'm going to cross that bridge when I get to it."

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