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“The Blacklist” Season 9, the NBC drama’s first year without now-exited star Megan Boone, will open with a time jump that will pick up with Raymond Reddington (James Spader) two years after the death of Elizabeth Keen (Boone), the network revealed Thursday.

Per NBC, “In the two years following the death of Elizabeth Keen, Raymond Reddington (James Spader) and the members of the FBI Task Force have disbanded – their lives now changed in unexpected ways and with Reddington’s whereabouts unknown. Finding themselves each at a crossroads, a common purpose compels them to renew their original mission: to take down dangerous, vicious and eccentric Blacklisters. In the process, they begin to uncover lethal adversaries, unimaginable conspiracies, and surprising betrayals that will threaten alliances and spur vengeance for the past, led by the most devious criminal of them all – Raymond Reddington.”

“The Blacklist” Season 9, which also stars Diego Klattenhoff, Amir Arison,...

TVLine readers have logged their guesses about our most recent Blind Item, involving a long-running broadcast-tv drama that plans to open its new season with a significant time jump. And if you thought NBC’s The Blacklist might fit that description, you would be correct.

As TVLine can now reveal, the James Spader-led crime drama will kick off Season 9 with a two-year leap forward, picking up well after Elizabeth Keen’s sudden death via gunshot wound in the Season 8 finale. What’s more, the NBC series’ return will find the FBI task force disbanded in the wake of Liz’s murder,...

A lot is changing for The Blacklist as the NBC favorite heads into its ninth season and TV Insider has a hint at what’s to come with an exclusive first look. The new season key art (above and below) gets up-close and personal with James Spader‘s Raymond Reddington, proving the criminal mastermind is at the center of the action in Season 9, following the murder of former agent Elizabeth Keen (Megan Boone) in the show’s pivotal eighth season finale. According to the NBC synopsis, in the two years following Elizabeth’s death, Red and the members of the FBI Task Force have disbanded. (Credit: Courtesy of NBC) Their lives have since changed in unexpected ways, but the whereabouts of Reddington remains unknown to the group. Stuck at a crossroads, each of them are bonded by a common purpose, compelling them to renew their original mission to take down dangerous,...

Elizabeth Keen isn’t the only FBI agent who’s gone rogue: The Blacklist‘s Donald Ressler is doing some unsanctioned investigating of his own, if our sneak peek at tonight’s episode (NBC, 9/8c) is any indication.

In the exclusive clip embedded above, the typically straight-laced Ressler makes a side project out of tracking down Katarina Rostova (aka Liz’s mother), who he suspects may still be alive. Though Katarina allegedly died by suicide years ago, there’s also been rumors that the woman has merely been in hiding this whole time. (Liz, as you’ll recall, was told that her mother died,...

The small screen is full of characters we loathe.

Every time he or she comes on screen, the joy we felt turning on the television suddenly evaporates.

Sometimes, the character is so unbearable, the show isn't even worth watching anymore. 

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But why should fans be the ones who suffer?

Instead, why don't we give these characters the pink slip and tell them to take a hike?!

Here are 19 TV Characters to get us started!

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1. Elizabeth Keen - The Blacklist There have been times when we've been on Liz's side, but her constant back-and-forth between good and bad hasn't helped her cause. After more than half a season of her making Red's life miserable in her pursuit of his true identity, she made...

The winter return of NBC’s The Blacklist, entitled “Ruin,” marks a bit of a departure for the series, as Elizabeth Keen (Megan Boone) abandons her old life to seek out a fresh start in a town where no one knows her history or even her name. What she thought would be a way to deal with her grief becomes a brutal fight for survival, after some extreme weather cuts her off from everyone and an unexpected threat shows up at her door. During this 1-on-1 phone interview with Collider, actress Megan Boone talked about reaching 100 episodes …...

Megan Boone has a renewed focus in her career and personal life -- and it’s partly thanks to The Blacklist, the NBC action thriller she’s starred in as Elizabeth Keen for nearly five years.

“Now that I’ve done The Blacklist, I feel like it’s prepared me for anything -- especially shooting 22 hours of content every year, and content that is as extreme as the material is on our show,” Boone, 34, tells Et. “I feel very confident that I can take on anything at this point.”

It’s that same mentality that has driven Boone for much of her career, though The Blacklist has a special place in her heart, if only for the acting muscles she’s gotten to flex. “In one word, what I would take from playing Liz is a feeling of extraordinary competence,” Boone reflects.

In Wednesday’s winter premiere, titled “Ruin,” the series departs from its usual blacklister-of-the-week formula and spends...