While some of the new fall series have yet to learn their fate for the remainder of their first seasons, NBC’s breakout new drama Blindspot — the first to get backup scripts and full-season freshman order — has received a very early second-season renewal. The series, starring Sullivan Stapleton and Jaimie Alexander, ranks as the No. 1 new fall series among adults 18-49.
Blindspot is off to a very strong start — averaging a 3.7 rating in adults 18-49 and 12.7 million viewers overall so far this 
season, according to “most current” Nielsen averages, dominating its Monday 10 PM time slot. Still such an early renewal is unusual. Another NBC drama in the same time period, Revolution, also had a blazing start but started to lose steam by the second half of Season 1 and faded in its second season. With its procedural element, Blindspot is more in the vein of NBC’s other Monday 10 PM entry, The Blacklist, which keeps going, now in its third season, on a challenging new night.
Blindspot is also one of the most time-shifted shows on television, growing by 71% so far this season in adults 18-49 rating from Live+Same Day to Live+7 (from a 2.65 to a 4.54) and by more than 5.7 million viewers overall (9.3 million to 15.1 million).
“We are over the moon with the success of Blindspot and want to thank our producers and amazing cast for creating one of the most riveting shows on television,” said Jennifer Salke, President of NBC Entertainment. “Jaimie and Sullivan have done an amazing job of ratcheting up the tension each week in trying to unravel the mystery of Jane’s tattoos.”
A beautiful woman, with no memories of her past, is found naked in Times Square with her body fully covered in intricate tattoos. Her discovery sets off a vast and complex mystery that immediately ignites the attention of the FBI, who begin to follow the road map on her body to reveal a larger conspiracy of crime while bringing her closer to discovering the truth about her identity. Stapleton and Alexander lead the cast of the show, which also includes Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Rob Brown, Audrey Esparza, Ukweli Roach and Ashley Johnson.
Martin Gero created Blindspot and executive produces with Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, Mark Pellington and Marcos Siega for Warner Bros. TV and Greg Berlanti Prods.
bery quietly, in a tough landscape, NBC is the number one network. Or, in the land of the blind, the ine-eyed man is king.
CBS is, by far the #1 network. What on earth gave you that false idea?!
NBC is quickly dying on the vine with shows like Blindspot weighing it down.
I can’t even. WTH? How?
Are you seriously asking how and why NBC renewed their highest rated scripted show?
Well, it is losing ratings practically each episode, doesn’t hold its lead-in and even with that lead-in is not a hit…
So yes, renewing it is really not a great decision for a network in need of real hits.
Jamie before she did 2nd Thor movie belonged to gym N Hollywood. She is one in shape athletic actress. And very sweet..
She may be in shape, but she is lost in a bad show with bad lines and a complete lack of direction and looks really bad in it…
Not that there’s a choice of good shows for actors these days anyway… :(
Love this show; just hope it doesn’t sputter out like The Blacklist did in its second season … love the leads; Jamie Alexander is a doll!
“Blindspot is off to a very strong start — averaging a 3.7 rating in adults 18-49 and 12.7 million viewers overall” Yeah but that’s all going to change when next season nbc changes its timeslot so that they can launch another “hit show” behind the voice, burning this one in only its second season, like they did before with Revolution and The Blacklist (which, by the way, is much better than Blindspot and was doing great before it got moved). I hope they realize how ridiculous that strategy is soon. I mean “State of Affairs” anyone?!
Except those aren’t the overnight averages, they are Live+7 (which don’t count!)
It’s be great if Deadline would tell us what the numbers they are quoting are so we can discuss them knowingly.
It also loses 30% of its lead-in which, of course, the article dos not discuss, and is now barely at the 8 million viewer level, which the article for some reason fails to mention…
Good for Berlanti and co.
That said, another luxury they didn’t extend to Constantine last season…
Berlanti is great… at getting paid money to produce flops.
Sadly, all that does is pad his fat wallet while siphoning off money from potentially more successful shows.
Waiting for ‘person of interest’ to be renewed by CBS
Gon miss Ashley as pike on crit role but happy for her too
The show loses a huge part of its lead-in, continues to go down, so of course we’ll all watch it now that NBC has bought itself another season of ratings trouble…
Predictable and yet still sad.
When will the season 2 come out