The Beginning of Blacklist Is Not as Good as Alias

"If this show were to premiered on NBC this year, first of all, it probably would have been the best new broadcast drama of the year," he said. "It's just full of people who you're gonna recognize from things and then you won't necessarily know from what you recognize them." The cast is entirely the kind of cast that they could have gotten for this show if it had been on ABC or NBC,. There's no one who you look at this and you go, man, they never would have gotten that person to do a broadcast show.