NBC has picked up The Blacklist spinoff now titled The Blacklist: Redemption to series.
Starring Famke Janssen (X-Men Franchise) & Ryan Eggold (The Blacklist)
In The Blacklist: Redemption, Tom Keen (Ryan Eggold) joins forces with Susan Scottie Hargrave (Janssen), the brilliant and cunning chief of Grey Matters, a covert mercenary organization that solves problems governments dont dare touch. Their relationship resembles that between Raymond Red Reddington (James Spader) and Elizabeth Keen (Megan Boone) on the mothership series.
In addition to Janssen and Eggold, the cast of the spinoff series includes Edi Gathegi and Tawny Cypress. The planted spinoff episode was written by The Blacklist creator/executive producer Jon Bokenkamp and exec producer/showrunner John Eisendrath and was directed by Michael Dinner. The episode, as well as last weeks Blacklist episode, which introduced Scottie, both posted ratings upticks in Live+same day.