The Blacklist Will Finish After Upcoming tenth Season: ‘It is Been Extremely Enjoyable’
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The Blacklist is coming to an finish.
The favored NBC sequence is ready to wrap for good after its tenth season, which premieres Feb. 26, the community introduced on Wednesday. The present can even have fun its 2 hundredth episode on March 19.
“After 10 years, lots of of Blacklist instances and greater than 200 episodes produced, we’re honored to succeed in our conclusion,” mentioned government producer John Eisendrath mentioned in an announcement. “It has been extremely enjoyable to create the unusual, devious and pleasant Blacklisters to problem Raymond Reddington and our FBI Job Drive every week.”
He continued, “We wish to thank everybody at NBC and Sony, our extraordinary crew who make the not possible occur each day, our endlessly creative writers and producers, and our exceptional forged who introduced life to those characters. We admire our devoted fanbase who got here alongside for this glorious journey and are excited to share this closing season with them.”
With the announcement, NBC shared a primary have a look at the ultimate season of The Blacklist which guarantees one “final journey” for U.S. Naval Intelligence officer Raymond “Pink” Reddington (James Spader).
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“It is not typically {that a} sequence resonates so deeply with an viewers that it airs for 10 seasons, however The Blacklist proved to be an ideal mixture of extremely proficient producers, stellar writing, a forged that by no means did not ship and a crew that at all times rose to the event,” Lisa Katz, president of scripted content material at NBCUniversal Tv and Streaming, mentioned in an announcement. “An enormous thanks to our companions at Sony, everybody from the previous decade who made this present an integral a part of NBC’s storied historical past and, after all, a particular nod to James Spader, whose efficiency stays nothing wanting spectacular.”
Jason Clodfelter, the Co-President of Sony Footage Tv Studios, added: “We thank our great companions at NBC for a exceptional 10 seasons of ‘The Blacklist,’ the sequence that launched the world to Raymond Reddington, brilliantly portrayed by James Spader. James has led a multi-talented and numerous forged that additionally featured legendary visitor stars and lots of of Blacklisters who made us all root for this anti-hero. We tip our Reddington hat to the devoted manufacturing workers, hard-working crew and proficient writers. The unpredictable plot twists have produced a legacy TV present that served to entertain a worldwide viewers and as we enter the closing season, we won’t await audiences to see how Raymond Reddington takes a closing bow.”
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The Blacklist star Spader confirmed that the crime thriller can be again for a tenth season throughout an look on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon final yr.
“We simply bought picked up simply this afternoon,” he informed host Jimmy Fallon in February 2022. “Everybody was hustling round to attempt to do it so we may announce it on the present. We simply bought picked up for a tenth season.“
As followers of The Blacklist will know, the present — which premiered in 2013 — chronicles Pink who disappeared off the grid and have become considered one of FBI’s 10 Most Wished Fugitives. After he surrendered to authorities, he supplied a blacklist of criminals to the FBI.
The ultimate season will choose up as Pink faces a brand new menace after he eradicated Liz Eager’s (Megan Boone) homicide. Within the season 9 finale, No. 84 from the blacklist escaped jail and informed different fugitives that Pink is an FBI informant placing him in danger as they search “deadly revenge.”
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The brand new season can even see Anya Banerjee join the cast of The Blacklist, TVLine reported.
The actress is ready to play Siya Malik — lively Intelligence Officer for the U.Ok.’s Secret Intelligence Service often known as MI6 — who’s the daughter of the late late Meera Malik (Parminder Nagra), who died in season 1.
Spader and Banerjee shall be joined by returning forged members Diego Klattenhoff, Hisham Tawfiq, and Harry Lennix.
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The ultimate season of The Blacklist premieres Feb. 26 at 10 PM ET on NBC.