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 famous NBC collection is ready to wrap for pinnacle after its tenth season, which premieres Feb. 26, the network announced on Wednesday. The display can even have a laugh its 2 hundredth episode on March 19.

"After 10 years, masses of Blacklist instances and further than two hundred episodes produced, we are honored to reap our give up," stated government producer John Eisendrath stated in a statement. "It's been quite amusing to create the unusual, devious and beautiful Blacklisters to project Raymond Reddington and our FBI Task Force every week."

He continued, "We would really like to thank anyone at NBC and Sony, our awesome group who make the impossible arise each day, our without end creative writers and manufacturers, and our high-quality cast who brought lifestyles to the ones characters. We respect our committed fanbase who got here along for this excellent experience and are excited to percentage this very last season with them."

With the declaration, NBC shared a number one take a look at the very last season of The Blacklist which guarantees one "closing experience" for U.S. Naval Intelligence officer Raymond "Red" Reddington (James Spader).

"It isn't regularly that a chain resonates so deeply with an goal marketplace that it airs for 10 seasons, but The Blacklist proved to be an excellent mixture of fantastically talented manufacturers, stellar writing, a forged that by no means did not deliver and a group that constantly rose to the occasion," Lisa Katz, president of scripted content material at NBCUniversal Television and Streaming, said in a declaration. "A huge way to our partners at Sony, everyone from the beyond decade who made this show an vital a part of NBC's storied history and, of course, a completely unique nod to James Spader, whose average performance stays now not some thing quick of extraordinary."

Jason Clodfelter, the Co-President of Sony Pictures Television Studios, delivered: "We thank our extraordinary partners at NBC for a first-rate 10 seasons of 'The Blacklist,' the gathering that introduced the arena to Raymond Reddington, brilliantly portrayed with the aid of James Spader. James has led a multi-talented and diverse cast that still featured mythical visitor stars and hundreds of Blacklisters who made us all root for this anti-hero. We tip our Reddington hat to the devoted production personnel, tough-operating group and proficient writers. The uedictable plot twists have produced a legacy TV show that served to entertain a global target audience and as we enter the final season, we can't look ahead to audiences to appearance how Raymond Reddington takes a final bow."

The Blacklist movie star Spader confirmed that the crime mystery might be lower lower back for a 10th season during an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallonclosing yr.

"We surely were given picked up just this afternoon," he cautioned host Jimmy Fallon in February 2022. "Everyone become hustling round to try and do it so we should announce it on the show. We absolutely got picked up for a 10th season."

As fans of The Blacklistwill know, the display — which premiered in 2013 — chronicles Red who disappeared off the grid and have become one in every of FBI's 10 Most Wanted Fugitives. After he surrendered to authorities, he provided a blacklist of criminals to the FBI.

The very last season will choose out up as Red faces a trendy chance after he eliminated Liz Keen's (Megan Boone) homicide. In the season 9 finale, No. Eighty 4 from the blacklist escaped jail and told different fugitives that Red is an FBI informant putting him at risk as they may be looking for for "deadly revenge."

The new season can even see Anya Banerjee be a part of the forged of The Blacklist, TVLine stated.

The actress is prepared to play Siya Malik — energetic Intelligence Officer for the U.K.'s Secret Intelligence Service known as MI6 — who is the daughter of the late past due Meera Malik (Parminder Nagra), who died in season 1.

Spader and Banerjee may be joined by way of returning forged contributors Diego Klattenhoff, Hisham Tawfiq, and Harry Lennix.

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