Blindspot at TCA press tour

On Thursday, NBC buzzed new drama series "Blindspot" answered questions and discuss about the upcoming new series at the TCA press tour. Here are some pin-point:

• The series premiere is Monday, September 21 at 10/9c.
• Jamie Alexander says she has a fighting background and was a wrestler growing up that help her with her character's combat skills.
• It took 7.5 hours to apply the full-body tattoos, that lasted for several days.
• Alexander has nine tattoos of her own.
• Executive Producer Martin Gero says that the series is "a character drama first and foremost" and adds that "It's a procedural for people who don't like procedurals."
• Gero admits that there are similarities between Blindspot and Blacklist "but that's not a bad thing."
• Gero says that Jamie Alexander's character has many, many years worth of stories tattooed on her body. Adding that "She had 9 to 10 years of stories on her body. Her legs are for the spin-off."
• At the end of every episode, they're going to throw a hook in for the next episode.
• "Each episode is a puzzle piece."
• Executive Prodcers Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter noted that they want to deliver satisfying stories each week while it still building the mythology.
• There will be answers to why her memory was wiped.
• Berlanti says that the audience will be satisfied at the end of the ride.
• The night that they filmed the pilot, when Alexander crawls naked out of the bag, the temperature was six degrees in Time Square and that she was really shaking. Plus there was not a single visual effect in that opening sequence, they closed down Time Square.
• "She's got a secret. That's all I'm gonna say," said Marlanne Jean-Baptiste on her character.
• Berlanti says that on working on several shows, he works with people who have a clear vision and that Martin has such a clear vision for Blindspot and that his involvement is day-to-day.
• And mentions that there are "secret tattoos" that haven't been revealed yet.