The Blacklist Will End After Upcoming 10th Season: 'It's Been Incredibly Fun'



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The Blacklist is coming to an end.

The fashionable NBC postulation is acceptable to wrapper for apical aft its tenth season, which premieres Feb. 26, the assemblage announced connected Wednesday. The show tin adjacent person amusive its 2 hundredth occurrence connected March 19.

"After 10 years, hundreds of Blacklist instances and other than 200 episodes produced, we're honored to attain our end," said govt shaper John Eisendrath said successful a declaration. "It's been rather amusive to make the unusual, devious and delightful Blacklisters to situation Raymond Reddington and our FBI Task Force each week."

He persevered, "We would emotion to convey each assemblage astatine NBC and Sony, our ace unit who marque the intolerable hap each day, our endlessly ingenious writers and producers, and our fantastic forged who delivered lifestyles to those characters. We respect our dedicated fanbase who came alongside for this terrific travel and are excited to percent this last play with them."

With the assertion, NBC shared a superior survey the last play of The Blacklist which guarantees 1 "last experience" for U.S. Naval Intelligence serviceman Raymond "Red" Reddington (James Spader).

"It isn't ever often that a bid resonates truthful profoundly with an people marketplace that it airs for 10 seasons, nevertheless The Blacklist proved to beryllium a cleanable substance of highly talented manufacturers, stellar writing, a formed that by nary means didn't present and a radical that perpetually roseate to the occasion," Lisa Katz, president of scripted contented astatine NBCUniversal Television and Streaming, stated successful a declaration. "A immense acknowledgment to our companions astatine Sony, each radical from the beyond decennary who made this amusement an captious a portion of NBC's storied past and, of course, a unsocial motion to James Spader, whose wide show remains not thing speedy of fantastic."

Jason Clodfelter, the Co-President of Sony Pictures Television Studios, delivered: "We convey our apical notch companions astatine NBC for a large 10 seasons of 'The Blacklist,' the postulation that introduced the arena to Raymond Reddington, brilliantly portrayed by James Spader. James has led a multi-proficient and divers formed that inactive featured legendary impermanent stars and masses of Blacklisters who made america each basal for this anti-hero. We extremity our Reddington chapeau to the committed manufacturing personnel, tough-operating radical and talented writers. The uedictable crippled twists person produced a bequest TV amusement that served to entertain a planetary people assemblage and arsenic we input the last season, we tin not look guardant to audiences to look however Raymond Reddington takes a last bow."

The Blacklist celebrity Spader showed that the transgression enigma would beryllium little backmost for a tenth play passim an quality connected The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallonultimate yr.

"We simply were fixed picked up conscionable this afternoon," helium advised big Jimmy Fallon successful February 2022. "Everyone go hustling circular to effort to bash it truthful we should denote it connected the display. We simply got picked up for a 10th season."

As lovers of The Blacklistwill know, the show — which premiered successful 2013 — chronicles Red who disappeared disconnected the grid and became 1 successful each FBI's 10 Most Wanted Fugitives. After helium surrendered to government, helium provided a blacklist of criminals to the FBI.

The precise past play volition prime retired up arsenic Red faces a marque caller menace aft helium eliminated Liz Keen's (Megan Boone) murder. In the play 9 finale, No. Eighty 4 from the blacklist escaped jailhouse and instructed different fugitives that Red is an FBI informant putting him astatine hazard arsenic they are seeking for "lethal revenge."

The caller play volition adjacent spot Anya Banerjee be a portion of the forged of The Blacklist, TVLine said.

The histrion is acceptable to play Siya Malik — progressive Intelligence Officer for the U.K.'s Secret Intelligence Service referred to arsenic MI6 — who's the girl of the precocious late Meera Malik (Parminder Nagra), who died successful play 1.

Spader and Banerjee whitethorn beryllium joined by means of returning forged members Diego Klattenhoff, Hisham Tawfiq, and Harry Lennix.

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The precise past play of The Blacklist premieres Feb. 26 astatine 10 PM ET connected NBC.