
Syfy announced today that its hit supernatural series Haven has been picked up for a double-sized fifth season – twenty six episodes! This can be attributed to the show’s continued growth (averaging 2.3 million viewers on Friday nights – and running against new shows from all the big networks!) and the show’s fans being extremely media savvy (Season 4 was Haven’s best season to date in social mentions and Twitter activity). Season 5.0 will premiere this fall, with Season 5.5 debuting in 2015.
Over the course of Haven’s run on Syfy, series creators Sam Ernst and Jim Dunn have repeatedly said in interviews that they had a complete story planned for Haven – a ‘seven-season plan.’ With today’s news that Season 5 of Haven will be 26 episodes, I have to wonder if Ernst & Dunn’s plan was based on 13-episode seasons – making Season 5, in effect, years five and six of their overall plan. Or, maybe, because the series has proven so durable and so good, if perhaps Syfy might be trying to stretch things out a bit. Ernst and Dunn are not listed as executive producers on the show in the press release (read it after the jump), so that gives me pause…
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