The rumored Blue Bloods franchise enlargement is now official. Donnie Wahlberg will reprise his position as Danny Reagan in Boston Blue. As you’ll be able to inform by the identify, this collection has a brand new location, and that’s not the one main change. Danny may have a model new companion in Bean City, and there’s no phrase on whether or not or not Marisa Ramirez‘s Detective Maria Baez can be concerned in any respect. After the Blue Bloods collection finale hinted at a potential romance between Danny and Baez after years of fan hypothesis, that is an sudden improvement. One other sudden element: it might premiere as early as this yr.
Right here’s every little thing there may be to learn about Boston Blue to date.
What’s the Blue Bloods offshoot, Boston Blue, about?
Boston Blue (working title) has a straight-to-series order, CBS introduced on Tuesday, February 18 (the Blue Bloods collection finale aired in December 2024). The brand new collection is billed as a franchise enlargement, not a by-product, and is written by Brandon Sonnier and Brandon Margolis and can see NYPD Officer Danny Reagan take a brand new place with the Boston PD. The offshoot is holding the family-oriented particulars alive with Danny’s new companion, Detective Lena Peters, who’s the eldest daughter of a distinguished regulation enforcement household. Reagan is the oldest residing Reagan sibling.
When does Boston Blue premiere?
Boston Blue is ready to premiere within the 2025-2026 season. On condition that, it might premiere this fall or midseason in early 2026.
Who’s within the Boston Blue forged?
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Wahlberg is the one confirmed star. CBS’s press launch doesn’t point out Ramirez or every other Blue Bloods actors. Casting for Lena Peters can be introduced at a later time. Each of Danny’s sons, Jack (Tony Terraciano) and Sean (Andrew Terraciano), are in school and due to this fact wouldn’t have to be with dad in Boston, however the present’s premise and shut proximity to NYC leaves room for cameos from Wahlberg’s Blue Bloods costars.
After years of followers considering there was a romantic spark between companions Danny and Baez, Danny lastly requested Baez out within the collection finale. He was making good on a promise to his grandfather, Henry Reagan (Len Cariou), who needed to see his widowed grandson discover love once more. Wahlberg himself advocated for this romantic ending for Danny and Baez.
“I feel that was quite a lot of me actually pushing,” Wahlberg advised Selection following the collection finale. “I pushed loads for some closure with that. I went to [writer] Siobhan O’Connor, and I used to be like, ‘Pay attention, you’ve acquired to do one thing. They don’t must go get married, however one thing could be good, simply to indicate that there could also be a future for them, or that their relationship has actually advanced.’”
Boston Blue is produced by CBS Studios in affiliation with JBTV. Sonnier and Margolis will showrun and govt produce. Jerry Bruckheimer, KristieAnne Reed, and Wahlberg may also function govt producers.
Sonnier and Margolis hail from The Blacklist and S.W.A.T. They began within the NBC Writers on the Verge program (now NBCU LAUNCH). After 5 seasons on The Blacklist, they developed and showran L.A.’s Best, the Sony and JBTV-produced Unhealthy Boys spinoff starring Gabrielle Union and Jessica Alba, which ran for 2 seasons on Spectrum earlier than subsequent profitable runs on Fox and Netflix. “The Brandons” are presently govt producers on the upcoming third season of Fox’s lacking individuals procedural Alert: Lacking Individuals Unit.
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