Noah Janowski February 23rd, 2022 - 9:31 AM
The Blacklist, the NBC drama starring James Spader (Boston Legal), has been renewed for a 10th season at NBC, Spader announced while appearing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday. Spader is also an executive producer for the show.
“We just got picked up, just this afternoon. Word came out, everybody was hustling around trying to do it so we can announce it on the show. We just got picked up for a 10th season,” Spader told Fallon.
Spader stars in the drama series as Raymond “Red” Reddington. The show also currently stars Diego Klattenhoff (Pacific Rim), Harry Lennix (Man Of Steel), Hisham Tawfiq (About The People), and Amir Arison (20 Weeks).
The Blacklist originally starred Megan Boone (Leave Me Like You Found Me), who played Elizabeth Keen in the show, as well as Spader, but Boone left the show in 2021 after the season eight finale. Since then, Boone has started her own production company, Weird Sister Productions, who signed a deal with Sony Pictures Television, the same studios that produce The Blacklist, according to Deadline.
The show’s creator, Jon Bokenkamp (Taking Lives), also announced after the season eight finale that he was leaving to focus on other projects, as he wrote on his Twitter account at the time.
To the fans… pic.twitter.com/cSxLz1Q9Ay
— Jon Bokenkamp (@JonBokenkamp) June 24, 2021
Bokenkamp, however, remains an executive producer with Spader as well as John Eisendrath (Beverely Hill, 90210), John Davis (I, Robot), John Fox (Game Night), Lukas Reiter (The Practice), Laura A. Benson (The Big C), Daniel Cerone (Dexter), Sean Hennen (Person Of Interest), Allison Glock-Cooper (Man Made), and T Cooper (The Get Down). Eisendrath is also a co-creator for the drama.
The Blacklist, which debuted in 2013, remains one of NBC’s top-performing shows. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the show has averaged 5.05 million viewers with a week of delayed viewing for this current season. THR also reports that streaming and digital platforms bump the audience to more than 9 million per episode, which is three times more than its same-day viewership of 3.14 million.
