supernatural season 14 will have less episodes than normal 

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might be coming back for a 14th(!) season, but it\'ll be the show\'s second shortest run ever.

The next season will run to just 20 episodes, according to

That might still sound like a lot, but it\'s actually a cutback – with one exception, every season of

The one irregularity was the show\'s third season in 2007-08, which ran to just 16 episodes (but that was because a writers\' strike halted production).

Still, 20 weeks with Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) ain\'t as bad as all that... even if Dean isn\'t quite Dean at the moment.

Season 13\'s finale saw the archangel Michael take control of Dean\'s body and we\'ll have to wait for at least four months to find out what happens next, with season 14 set to premiere on Thursday, October 11 at 8/7c on The CW.

The series airs on E4 in the UK, where you can expect the new episodes to land a few months later – sometime in early 2019.

Jensen Ackles and Misha Collins (Castiel) have both hinted that season 14 could re-introduce characters from the

spin-off, after The CW declined to pick up the pilot to series.

go forward, but I also know that there\'s a great back-up, which is that all of those characters are alive and well and there\'s a place for them in the

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