JamesG
07-13-2014, 02:10 PM
NBC Execs Defend "The Blacklist" Hiatus
by Matt Webb Mitovich
July 13, 2014
Red Reddington will have a new place to hang his hat come February, regardless of how "The Blacklist‘s" Monday night replacement performs.
NBC Entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt told TVLine on Sunday at the Television Critics Assoc. summer press tour that even if "State of Affairs" — NBC’s new Katherine Heigl-fronted drama — fails to perform well in the Mondays-at-10 time slot starting in mid-November, “The Blacklist isn’t going to go back in there.”
Rather, "The Blacklist" is set to launch Season 2 on Monday, Sept. 22, make way for "State of Affairs" starting Nov. 17, and then return from its 10-week hiatus in early February — first with an aprés-Super Bowl showcase, then with a second new episode just days later, christening its new Thursdays-at-9 home.
Greenblatt explained that "The Blacklist" would only have delivered eight or nine new episodes this fall regardless, due to the show’s “enormous” production demands.
By moving last season’s No. 1 new series to a new night, Greenblatt hopes to “change the game” for NBC on Thursdays.
For good measure, "The Blacklist‘s" pre-hiatus finale will deliver a “big hook” to pique and hold viewers’ interest over the break, before the drama returns with a “big two-parter” during Super Bowl week.
http://tvline.com/2014/07/13/the-blacklist-season-2-hiatus-super-bowl-two-parter/
by Matt Webb Mitovich
July 13, 2014
Red Reddington will have a new place to hang his hat come February, regardless of how "The Blacklist‘s" Monday night replacement performs.
NBC Entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt told TVLine on Sunday at the Television Critics Assoc. summer press tour that even if "State of Affairs" — NBC’s new Katherine Heigl-fronted drama — fails to perform well in the Mondays-at-10 time slot starting in mid-November, “The Blacklist isn’t going to go back in there.”
Rather, "The Blacklist" is set to launch Season 2 on Monday, Sept. 22, make way for "State of Affairs" starting Nov. 17, and then return from its 10-week hiatus in early February — first with an aprés-Super Bowl showcase, then with a second new episode just days later, christening its new Thursdays-at-9 home.
Greenblatt explained that "The Blacklist" would only have delivered eight or nine new episodes this fall regardless, due to the show’s “enormous” production demands.
By moving last season’s No. 1 new series to a new night, Greenblatt hopes to “change the game” for NBC on Thursdays.
For good measure, "The Blacklist‘s" pre-hiatus finale will deliver a “big hook” to pique and hold viewers’ interest over the break, before the drama returns with a “big two-parter” during Super Bowl week.
http://tvline.com/2014/07/13/the-blacklist-season-2-hiatus-super-bowl-two-parter/