"The Blacklist" Spoilers, NBC Renews FBI Drama For Second Season

 

 

"The Blacklist" Spoilers, NBC Renews FBI Drama For Second Season 

 

NBC has announced that they will be renewing the FBI drama series The Blacklist for a second season.

The Blacklist is created by Jon Bokenkamp and stars James Spader who plays Raymond "Red" Reddington a former government agent turned into a no good perp that teams up with FBI agent Liz Keen to bring down the world's most notorious criminals, but Red brings along a tangled web of lies and mysteries that holds the key to many dark secrets in Liz's past and present.

The chairman of NBC Entertainment, Robert Greenblatt spoke of the series excellent writing in his explanation as to why the network decided to renew The Blacklist so early.

"The success of 'The Blacklist' demonstrates that inspired storytelling is alive and well in broadcast television, and I'm impressed on a daily basis by this creative team's imagination and the extent to which they will go to capture this grand vision on film. With gratitude to both our partners at Sony Pictures Television and our NBC development executives who took a great script and shepherded it into a great series, I hope that Red Reddington never runs out of names to bring down on his list," Greenbalt said.

Spader thinks the series success is due to its complex and intriguing characters and plot, which keeps viewers on edge.

During the interview for last Sunday's Beyond the Blacklist Spader said, "There's a long life ahead, hopefully, and for a show of this nature I hope that I continue to be surprised, and not just by story line and not just by plot twists and turns. What's more important to sustain me and, I'd think a long term audience for the show, what will sustain them is the characters and those relationships and their pasts and their present and more importantly their future, which I think will be inextricably entwined with the secrets of their past."

The Blacklist is scheduled to return to the small screen on Monday, January 13 at 10 PM only on NBC.