'The Blacklist' Renewed For Season 8


NBC announced today that The Blacklist has been picked up for an eighth season. The good news comes midway through Season 7, which will return from its winter break on March 20. Currently sitting at an impressive 143 total episodes, the show will hit the 150 milestone by this season's finale.
Led by James Spader, the series premiered in 2013 as one of the top new shows of that year. While its best days have long-since passed, the show still draws a decent audience in its Friday night time slot.
The Blacklist stars Spader as an ex-government agent-turned-FBI's most wanted fugitive, who mysteriously surrenders himself to the agency with an offer to help them bring down some of the country's top criminals. The only condition is that he gets to work alongside an FBI profiler named Elizabeth Keen, which leads to a twisting series of events that slowly reveal his true motives.