The Blacklist hasn’t run out of names but: NBC has renewed the James Spader crime drama for a tenth season, TVLine has discovered.
Spader confirmed the information himself on Tuesday’s episode of The Tonight Present. He stars as grasp felony Purple Reddington, who works with the FBI to trace down the world’s most harmful fugitives.
Season-to-date, The Blacklist is averaging 5.1 million complete viewers and a 0.6 demo ranking in Reside+7 numbers — down only a tick from its Season 8 averages (5.5 mil/0.7). Out of the ten drama sequence that NBC has aired up to now this TV season, it ranks ninth in each measures, besting solely the freshman Strange Joe.
Season 9 has regarded very completely different, each in entrance of and behind the digital camera. Simply days earlier than the present’s Season 8 finale in June, information broke that main woman Megan Boone deliberate to exit the present, with the finale serving as her final episode. Throughout that installment, Boone’s Liz was fatally shot by certainly one of Neville Townsend’s henchmen, and Boone referred to as her eight-season run on the present “a lifetime within my very own life… What a dream. Thanks all.”
Sooner or later after the finale aired, sequence creator Jon Bokenkamp — who had served as a author and govt producer on Seasons 1 by means of 8 — introduced he was additionally departing the drama forward of Season 9 to “step out of my consolation zone, attempt one thing new, and discover a couple of of the opposite characters and tales which were crawling round in my head.”
“I genuinely consider the sequence stays vigorous, creatively sturdy, and that brilliant days lie forward,” Bokenkamp stated on the time. “So now I be a part of you — as a fan — to see the place The Blacklist takes us subsequent.”
The official synopsis for Season 9 says that “within the two years following the demise of Elizabeth Eager, Raymond Reddington and the members of the FBI Activity Pressure have disbanded — their lives now modified in sudden methods and with Reddington’s whereabouts unknown. Discovering themselves every at a crossroads, a typical objective compels them to resume their authentic mission: to take down harmful, vicious and eccentric Blacklisters. Within the course of, they start to uncover deadly adversaries, unimaginable conspiracies and stunning betrayals that may threaten alliances and spur vengeance for the previous, led by probably the most devious felony of all of them — Raymond Reddington.”
The Blacklist‘s ninth season resumes in a brand new time slot starting this Friday, Feb. 25 at 8/7c.
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