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WWE SmackDown (1.4 adults 18-49 Live+Same Day rating, 3.9 million viewers from 8-10 PM) made its debut on Fox last night, kicking off a five-year, $1 billion the network made for the wrestling program. The Fox  premiere, a SmackDown 20th anniversary celebration featuring some of WWE’s biggest past and present stars…

James Spader recounted his experiences making films like Avengers: Age of Ultron and TV series like The Blacklist and Boston Legal in an hourlong chat with Whoopi Goldberg at the Tribeca TV Festival. “To sustain me over a period of time, I can't be doing this one thing. I will just lose interest quickly,” Spader…

Spoiler Alert: This article reveals detail about tonight’s Season 6 finale of The Blacklist. Well, that’s one way to capture the attention of Raymond “Red” Reddington. James Spader’s enigmatic Reddington is both the mystery man and the main mystery at the center of The Blacklist and no one navigates the thriller’s…

Assemble Media has set Zelda Williams, the daughter of the comedy icon Robin Williams, to make her feature directorial debut with AMA (Ask Me Anything), a 2018 Blacklist script by John Wikstrom that weaves dark celebrity secrets and the dangers of the digital age together into a cat-and-mouse thriller. The premise: An…

NBC’s Blindspot will not air during May sweep, a scheduling move that does not bode well for the on-the-bubble drama series. The Blacklist had been scheduled to take the 8 PM time slot tonight due to Blindspot‘s previously planned week off. The Blacklist will air a two-hour episode tonight beginning at 8 PM and will…

NBC’s The Blacklist is losing a series regular, as Friday’s two-hour episode clearly spelled the end for Mozhan Marno, aka Agent Samar Navabi, who has been with the show since Season 2. Her departure has been confirmed by sources, and Marno posted about the decision on Instagram, noting that tonight’s episode was her…

EXCLUSIVE: NBC has given an early Season 7 renewal to veteran thriller drama The Blacklist, from Davis Entertainment, Sony Pictures TV and Universal TV. I hear the pickup had been in the works for awhile. Standard broadcast series’ cast contracts are for six years. While I hear The Blacklist star James Spader had…

(UPDATED with statement from Sony) A year after being suddenly cut loose from The Blacklist over alleged harassment of a crew member, the NBC series’ long-time director and executive producer Michael Watkins is aiming to give Sony TV, producers Woodbridge Productions and others a legal black eye. The move comes in a…

The riddle of Raymond “Red” Reddington (James Spader) is the central question for NBC’s The Blacklist as it returns for Season 6 and the just-released trailer suggests that the master manipulator of the underworld may be behind bars for a while. Season 6 kicks off with a two-part special that airs on back-to-back…

NBC said a couple of weeks ago that Season 6 of The Blacklist would have a two-hour premiere, but the network said today that it will be over two nights. The thriller starring James Spader and Megan Boone now will launch a day earlier, on January 3, 2019 and continue the next night. The two-day premiere will lead out…

NBC has set Friday, January 4, for the Season 6 premiere of The Blacklist, a special two-hour episode that will start at 8 PM. The series starring James Spader and Megan Boone will move to its previously announced regular 9 PM slot the following week. Here’s the logline (which contains spoilers for those who aren’t…

A week before ABC made its official new series orders, the network still had not screened two high-profile pilots, the light action drama Whiskey Cavalier from producer Bill Lawrence, and comedy Most Likely To from Berlanti Productions. The holdup was due to new expanded digital rights deals ABC had put forward a…