Blindspot Pulled From NBC Schedule With Renewal Status Still TBA
Blindspot‘s renewal prospects suddenly look murkier, now that NBC has pulled the on-the-bubble drama for the duration of May Sweeps.
Beginning April 26 (aka tonight), The Blacklist will move to 8 pm, christening its new time slot with a two-hour episode (read preview). It will remain there through its Season 6 finale on May 17.
Then, on Friday, May 24, Blindspot will return with the season’s antepenultimate episode at 8 pm. The season will then close with back-to-back episodes on May 31, airing at 8 pm and 9 pm. (The timing of Blindspot‘s mini-hiatus means the show will not air any episodes during May Sweeps, which began on Thursday, April 25, and concludes on Wednesday, May 22.)
All told, here’s what NBC’s Friday nights look like moving forward:
Friday, April 26
8 pm The Blacklist time slot premiere (two-hour episode)
10 pm Dateline
Friday, May 3 and May 10
8 pm The Blacklist
9 pm Dateline time slot premiere (two hours)
Friday, May 17
8 pm The Blacklist Season 6 finale
Friday, May 24
8 pm Blindspot returns
Friday, May 31
8 pm Blindspot Season 4 finale (two episodes)
Blindspot‘s season ender was shot on location in Iceland. As series creator Martin Gero previously revealed to TVLine, the FBI team heads overseas because “they’re following a clue” about Madeline Burke’s planned attack on the Eastern seaboard, “and something happens on the way there that makes the episode take a hard turn.”
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Gero added that the season finale will “reinvent the show in a huge way,” teasing “a twist and a dimensionality that we have not been able to play with yet.” Suffice it to say, it was not written as a potential series finale.
Averaging under a 0.5 demo rating, Blindspot ranks last among all current NBC dramas, while in total viewers (2.8 million) it only outdraws the already renewed Good Girls. Year over year, Blindspot is down 20 percent in the demo.
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Two years two late.
Someone had to say it.
You have no clue. Season three was excellent but this year the stories have been missing something.
That’s pretty lame with only 3 episodes left.
We’ll put Brian. Not everyone likes the same thing so pls Bring BACK BLINDSPOT NOW!!! WOW what a mindyuck!to its viewers. BBB! BRING BACK BLINDSPOT! Greatly appreciated 👍🏼
I can’t believe it’s ratings are so low. This show keeps me on my toes and makes me always want more. BBB!!!
Please continue this season
Oh dang. Not good…
Rich.com killed it for me….
Another case of a show’s leadership not understanding the things about the show that the audience liked (in this case, the team working together) and ultimately contributing to their own demise.
I’m guessing you’re one of those NCIS types who likes seeing the same episode after episode for years on end?
I would rather play in traffic than watch NCIS and couldn’t agree more with the OP.
EXACTLY Gern !!
Same here…..
Take Care…
So, Normandy, you’d compare the first two seasons of Blindspot to a bland procedural like NCIS? Of course you wouldn’t, that’s preposterous…Blindspot is a completely different type of show.
We’ve gone a long time without seeing the team together. Tasha’s doing her own thing, Jane and Weller are in their own little bubble, Reade often gets pulled away with Weitz and Patterson’s constantly tethered to Rich. The personal connections that really grounded these characters have been erased (Patterson and Tasha haven’t had a conversation this entire season, for example…after the Borden reveal exposed the depth of their friendship last season).
I think it’s possible to tell different stories and still maintain the connections between the characters.
And Jane almost died and then went bad and no one bothered to contact her daughter!
Loved this show. Agree with what you said. They get to fix all the dumb shows, but something interesting they don’t!
Totally agree with what your saying and its fresh to have one or multiple story lines in episodes bringing everything together no matter how awkward things maybe. Blindspot is a fresh of is a breath of fresh air and the mist gripping show to date. If you look at the entire series its about to kick off as its only starting. NBC have short minded people at the helm who are just not capable for their jobs. Let the show run and see netter and exciting writing and acting from the crew at Blindspot. Oh yeah, Blindspot has fans world wide especially in Australia where you can bring the show for a season. Wake up NBC think of the fans from abroad. Blindspot all the way and beyond season 10
I totally agree with you.
Too many showrunners can’t figure that out.
Too many showrunners can’t figure that out.
So true
So true.
Are they trying to give the showrunners a little time to make it have a good series ending? Like giving them time to edit or film something?
This doesn’t bode well for a season five renewal. Maybe NBC will do a two-hour movie a la Timeless to resolve the cliffhanger?
that would be nice at least..
Way to go NBC. That is why your network stinks.
How do you even watch TV? Is there a network left that you don’t hate?
The CW
Well crap, that messes up my viewing. Now I have three shows on at the same time. I hate it when they do this cuz you know, it’s all about me :-)
Is watching TV shows at a particular time still a thing, anywhere? I just try to even out my shows so that I ‘only’ watch 4 shows a night, which means some Mon/Tue shows I watch on Fridays, etc., with extra time available on weekends for any catch-ups or seasonal / arc-long binges.
Well obviously it is. Believe it or not there are still people who watch live TV, not everyone streams everything. In fact, I only know a few people who do that 100%. Plenty of people still use DVR’s. So sorry to burst your arrogant little bubble.
Everything we watch is dvr’d. But if you don’t have 6 slot dvr, yea, you can only do 2 shows at a time.
I’m resisting getting the 6 slot DVR because I feel like I watch to much TV as it is, lol. This forces me to be more selective.
I admit there have been a few times when I’ve recorded 5 shows at once. Lol. But TV is my hobby & what I love to do.
Sorry, I didn’t intend to sound arrogant, just inquisitive.
Most of our channels in the UK have ‘On Demand’ services available for at least a week (usually a month) after broadcast, with some channels having a few months’ accessibility for their most popular series (some BBC series can be streamed in their entirety before they even begin airing on terrestrial TV!).
Many people use only the streaming services (especially the younger generations with their gadgets and gizmos) but some still access the content via set-top boxes (like my octogenarian parents).
My teenage grand-nephews watch very little scripted content of any kind, getting most of their entertainment fixes from gaming or YouTube.
I didn’t think you sounded arrogant, the responder over reacted.
No I didn’t. How it made me feel when I read is just as relevant as how you did.
Seems like a lot of you here are the reason I stop watching new shows. You lose interest too easily, show gets cancelled and the rest of us are screwed. Networks please understand you actually lose viewership for any new show this way.
I have been so screwed over the years by watching shows suddenly have their hat handed to them and escorted off property leaving me hanging for what happens next, that I no longer watch any series (except hard SciFi/Fantasy like The Expanse or Magicians) until it comes to an actual series ending…then I binge watch it. I know this doesn’t “support” a show with ratings, but networks have absolutely no loyalty to their fans, so I no longer have any faith in them providing a quality, beginning to end, production. Hey networks, promise a pilot, a middle, and a conclusion/spin off and I’ll return to watching shows as you release them…until then, suck it.
That’s what DVRs are for. U can record more than 3 shows at a time so u don’t miss any of them. That’s what I’ve done for yrs now.
I loved season one of this show. It went off the rails pretty quickly, though, and made some critical storytelling errors early on (in my opinion). I still watch, but I was shocked the last time it was renewed and this is not surprising.
I didn’t like when they married Jane and Weller
It’s not been pulled as much as delayed it a few weeks. But it wasn’t looking much like it would get renewed anyway. This past season has been running about looking for things to do and trying to come up with new enemies. It’s become a joke of itself.
However, they’ve likely already made up their minds by now whether they’re renewing it or not so May sweeps doesn’t mean that much.
I have the last 6 episodes on DVR. Keeping until I have nothing else to watch or am running out of space on the DVR.
If your show is consistently on the bubble every year, and you clearly know what the numbers look like, why would you not write the season finale as a potential series finale?? That’s just being mean to your fans. This season has been a challenge to get through, but I’ve stuck with it. The show went way downhill when they killed off Roman and probably should have ended last season. But it didn’t, so at least give your fans some closure.
I agree fully. The show started out great but the last few seasons have had some seriously absurd moments. At this point I’m only watching because the main actors are good (and deserve better material) & because I’ve already invested this much time. I figured it was getting cancelled. The least the showrunners could have done is end it nicely for the fans.
Should’ve ended after season 2. Went way off the rails.
Agreed !!!
Shepard and Roman were enough !!!! Dragged on for TOO LONG !!!
agree!
I am hoping for an abbreviated S5 with a planned ending. I can see it and Blacklist sharing a timeslot.
Maybe newer writer’s are needed. The characters a ND actors and great. It needs a fresher story line. Does the network really have anything better.
It was an interesting premises but one that was impossible to sustain for more than a season. It should never have been a series. I’m happy because it means Ashley Johnson can spend more time on Critical Role!
I was literally scrolling through the comments to see if another Critter had already commented on here. Haha!! But I agree with you! I enjoy this show but the first season was the best and if it’s no more, I hope it means Ashley can be more involved in their growing CR business (and find a show that films in LA).
This is the news I’ve been waiting on. I feel bad for Blindspot fans, but I’ll be really happy if this means Ashley Johnson gets to move back to LA full time.
I’m gonna say that Blindspot will be back, maybe at mid-season or next summer. If they were going to cancel the show, they would have just canceled it. Why play games?
If NBC had to pick a veteran series to dump after this season it would be “Blindspot”. All of NBC’s other veteran dramas have been renewed for 2019-20, and it will be an absolute miracle for “Blindspot” to be renewed as well, even if it’s just for a short final season.
I hope Jamie Alexander gets another series.
I’ve never understood how so many tattoos could predict all those future events. They were designed to help deter them but how does anyone know about them?
I’m shocked it’s lasted this long to be honest.
Stopped watching a couple episodes into season 2. With the move from 10pm (S1) to “family hour” 8pm (S2), content gets neutered.
I was surprised it was renewed for a season 3 and 4 to be honest.