Spader announced the renewal during a visit to The Tonight Show to promote The Blacklist‘s return to its more regular Friday night slot. (You can watch the interview below.) The first nine episodes of this season aired on Thursday nights as a result of the Law & Order spinoff Law & Order: For the Defense falling through.
The Blacklist has been a solid performer for the network, which said that it had reached 22 million viewers across linear and digital platforms this season.
In the two years following the death of Boone’s Elizabeth Keen, Spader’s Raymond Reddington and the members of the FBI Task Force have disbanded – their lives now changed in unexpected ways and with Reddington’s whereabouts unknown. Finding themselves each at a crossroads, a common purpose compels them to renew their original mission: to take down dangerous, vicious and eccentric Blacklisters. In the process, they begin to uncover lethal adversaries, unimaginable conspiracies and surprising betrayals that will threaten alliances and spur vengeance for the past, led by the most devious criminal of them all: Raymond Reddington. Diego Klattenhoff, Amir Arison, Hisham Tawfiq, Laura Sohn and Harry Lennix also star.
