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The Supernatural spinoff officially has a title and a pilot pickup.
Dubbed Supernatural: Tribes, the upcoming CW series has been ordered to pilot alongside iZombie from Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas and the DC Arrow spinoff, Flash, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Coming from the mind of Supernatural writer and producer Andrew Dabb ("Road Trip," "Devil May Care"), Tribes was announced at 2013 San Diego Comic-Con but additional details have been slow to surface. That should change, however, following the series' Supernatural backdoor pilot later this season.
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Set in Chicago, the new program will focus on the hunter/monster dynamic in the Windy City while ditching the road aspect of its parent series.
"It's going to be quite a departure - the same world but from a whole new perspective," said executive producer Jeremy Carver, according to Entertainment Weekly.
While the backdoor episode will defiantly feature Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles), the two hunters will be scarcely seen during Tribes' first season (if it gets one). Instead, The CW President Mark Pedowitz recently stated that the network will follow the same approach it took with the Vampire Diaries spinoff, The Originals.
"In the spinoff episode, they would be in it. Whether they're in the series, for me spinoffs to work have to stand on their own two legs so you could only organically do those crossovers when the time is right," Pedowitz said, according to Crave Online. "Like we did with 'The Originals,' we didn't see Michael Trevino's character, Tyler, come in until the seventh or eighth episode. By that time the show was standing up on its own two legs."
Considering Supernatural's Tuesday night airing of "Sharp Teeth" shattered its record for most viewers since 2010 (crushing the record set the week before by "First Born"), it looks like there will be plenty of time for the Winchester brothers to participate in a cross over.
Supernatural airs Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET on The CW. Click the video below for a preview of next week's episode, "The Purge."
