The Blacklist 2013

The Blacklist is an American crime thriller television series created by Jon Bokenkamp and developed by John Eisendrath. It stars James Spader as Raymond Reddington, an international criminal and one of the FBI's Most Wanted fugitives who cooperates with the FBI in hunting down other criminals on his "Blacklist". The series also stars Megan Boone, Diego Klattenhoff, Ryan Eggold, Amir Arison, Hisham Tawfiq, and Harry Lennix. The Blacklist was given a series order in May 2013, and ran from September 23, 2013, to July 13, 2023, on NBC. The pilot episode garnered 12.6 million viewers in the United States. The series was produced by Davis Entertainment, Universal Television and Sony Pictures Television Studios. Eisendrath, John Davis, and John Fox served as executive producers for the entire run of the series; Bokenkamp also executive produced the series for the first eight seasons. Other executive producers include director Joe Carnahan and Spader. During its run, The Blacklist won a Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Award and was nominated for six more, and received nominations for two Golden Globe Awards, two Saturn Awards, and two People's Choice Awards.