The Blacklist Season 6 or cancelled with Season 5?
The future of The Blacklist is uncertain with NBC yet to renew the drama for a sixth season. However, with a big finale cliffhanger planned, EP Jon Bokenkamp doesn’t envisage Season 5 as the end, per EW:
“We have a great cliffhanger, and a big ending for the season in mind that I think is going to be really compelling. It’s not what we imagine the end of the series to be.”
On writing the final episodes of Season 5 with cancellation still a possibility, Bokenkamp affirms his belief in a sixth season:
“It’s interesting to not know, and how you write toward that. We’ve decided that we love the characters enough that if, for whatever reason, we didn’t have an opportunity to come back, we just have to find another way to do it, but we’re not going to rush to some ending out of fear that we’re not coming back. We have a story that we’re telling that we really like, and it’s going to take the time it takes to tell it.”
What do you think? Should The Blacklist be cancelled on a cliffhanger or is there enough life for a sixth season?
Stay tuned as the cancel/renew picture becomes ever clearer for The Blacklist Season 6…
Mary says
I do not intend to war
Tech The Blacklist since they killed off ‘Tom Keen’,so I do not care if it is canceled. I will watch the episode with Nathan Lane because I am a big fan of his talents.
tex's ghost says
My god what age are you, 9/10 ? Grow up FFS
Michael Frost RPh says
I think the series still has a ways to go. Killing it off now would be a shame. And who says Tom Keen has to really be dead. A lot of shows have ways of bringing people back, especially as popular as he was.
George W. says
OMG
I’ve been binge watching for three days and will be caught up tonight. Surely, they won’t cancel this great show. James Spader is incredible and the writing is compelling.
I wish we could crowd fund, the show.
I’m in for a $100. I like it that much. It’s better than most of the show’s I’ve seen at the theater.
Let’s it’s around for at least another season.
Happy New Year, y’all
BTW, I saw Willie Nelson and family last night in Austin. Billy Gibbons from ZZ TOP joined in for several songs and Blackberry Smoke from Atlanta also played.
FANTASTIC SHOW
Lukas Nelson sounds so much like his dad.
george
Shiki says
I agree I love the show I watched all episodes in a week and I would hate to see it end with Keaton dead and I love James Spader he is a wonderful Actor he is the best for this role in the Blacklist. Hope they will continue it I would be highly upset if it ends this way.
Sue says
I think The Blacklist definitely has enough life for another season, maybe two more seasons. I like the show. The acting is good. Spader, as always, is simply fantastic and the other characters are also interesting. So let’s end on a great cliffhanger and come back for at least season 6.
Nick Kitt says
This is a great series. Who cares if a character or two gets killed off. It’s all part of this dark world. Not only that, but I agree. There is a lot more stories to tell. The 8 o’clock time is certainly out of whack,especially when you consider a show like SCORPION (which I like) to be 10 0’clock fare. Makes no sense, frankly. But this fine series has a lot of life left in it,of that there is NO doubt. And also, I was never a big Tom Keene fan. I could barely get into the spin-off REDEMPTION series with Keene and his daddy and mommy issues and the “Dirty Dozen” concept.It was a decent series, but only short term and the character of Tom Keene was starting to wear out his welcome. So, by all means, RENEW IT THE BLACKLIST and let it bow out on it’s own terms. Think you can manage that, NBC..??
Jim says
I wish that all TV series would have a complete story so that if we invest our time in watching it we’re not left high and dry. How it was intended to play out could be posted on the Internet. Not as good as wrapping up a show on TV, but way better than to be left hanging. They should make this promise when a show is introduced so that we would know that no matter what, we will know how the story was supposed to go before we invest one minute in watching it.
osoviejo says
Tom Keen is my least favorite character on the show–didn’t care for his acting or stories. Would very much like to see the writers be able to finish the series as they wish.
Karen says
all good things come to an END…..But NOT The Blacklist! You would not believe all of the fans, and people I know that believes that this is still one of the best shows on television~
The Blacklist Redemption didn’t last But 1 season, and that was due to the character Tom Keen.
So…in order to get season 5, 6, and more…Tom had to be killed, and again as another fan stated, maybe he isn’t, but I do believe he is…..
The 1st episode wouldn’t have started the way it did….
Spader is like the best Actor, character on this show!
HE’s like the Godfather, and takes no crap from no one.
So…..NBC, trust the fans, and keep this going, until there is NO More Reddington!
Long live this show
Bluedogs says
The Blacklist is the best show on NBC and I hope it goes on for several more years. I completely agree that the 8:00 time slot is ridiculous and harmful to viewership.
It would be nice to see Jon Bokenkamp finish the series in a way that is satisfactory to him. From what I’ve read, he has definite ideas about the end game for The Blacklist. We can only hope that NBC gives him an opportunity to tell the story.
82nd AIRBORNE says
Don’t dare kill off this show, its a great TV series, and their aren’t many TV show’s to watch with the excitement the BLACKLIST brings.
Breezy Carver says
I still miss Boz…… Love #The Blacklist .. Love James Spader and entire cast !!! Writing Brilliant… Still Miss Rotary Phones and Churchill’s hat fabulous touch!! Please renew The Blacklist!! Please bring in William Shatner as guest star Blacklister.. He could play Reds Father !!!
Breezy Carver says
…… Love The Blacklist .. Love James Spader and entire cast !!! Writing Brilliant… Still Miss Rotary Phones and Churchill’s hat fabulous touch!! Please renew The Blacklist!! Please bring in William Shatner as guest star Blacklister.. He could play Reds Father !! I still miss Boz
Cmille says
Dear NBC,please don’t you take my Blacklist away. I absolutely love James Spader. That twisted, sleezy, perverted, sensual man has me completely memorized and I need my weekly fix.
Helen says
Great show – hope to see it renewed. James Spader is about as good as villains get!