Blue Bloods’ cancellation was an actual bummer, and it was one thing that nobody within the forged wished to occur. Nonetheless, the Reagan household’s story will get to proceed with Donnie Wahlberg’s spinoff Boston Blue, fortunately. Now, the lead actor is opening up in regards to the wrestle of creating TV proper now, the adjustments at CBS, and what they’re doing to hopefully discover success with this new collection.
The crew of Boston Blue has been laborious at work this summer time crafting its first season. The identical is true for a bunch of community reveals getting ready for his or her premieres on the 2025 TV schedule. Nonetheless, there are just a few who’re engaged on their freshman seasons, as Wahlberg defined on Billy & Lisa within the Morning:
The TV and film business has actually been beat up from COVID and the strike, and I believe so much – , CBS, for instance, used to make like 20 reveals a 12 months. They’re making two this 12 months, new reveals, and I am on one in all them. And it is actually dire straits financially, , within the business.
Technically, Wahlberg’s remark isn’t totally right. On CBS’s 2025-2026 lineup, DMV, CIA and Sheriff Nation are all scripted reveals that can begin their first seasons within the fall, like Boston Blue, with the Yellowstone spinoff Y: Marshals coming early subsequent 12 months. Nonetheless, I see his level, because the community additionally has a dozen returning scripted reveals – with Ghosts even getting a two-season pickup.
This led the actor right into a dialogue about how they’re filming Boston Blue and the challenges that include it. It sadly prices an excessive amount of to movie all of it on location, so that they must shoot numerous it in Canada, which has turn into the usual for a lot of reveals, together with CBS packages like Ghosts, Hearth Nation and Sheriff Nation, for instance.
Explaining why they’ve to try this, the Blue Bloods actor stated:
So I am actually lucky to be making a present. I am actually lucky to have the ability to go to Boston and work in any respect. However , once I initially was supplied a job, I stated, ‘We have to go to Boston.’ They stated, ‘We will not afford it.’ It is mainly 30 cents on a greenback to movie in Canada proper now, in comparison with , 80 cents on a greenback, 90 cents from a greenback, even with tax breaks.
Nonetheless, regardless of the monetary struggles the business is going through in the meanwhile, Wahlberg was nonetheless in a position to movie a few of Boston Blue in Boston.
He defined that he fought for that too, particularly since he’s from there; it was necessary that they depicted the town precisely. He stated:
However I stated, ‘We’ve got to go to Boston. I am unable to not go to Boston.’ So the plan proper now’s to do the interiors up right here and go to Boston each couple of weeks and do what we did, and put a crew collectively, a Boston crew, and go down and movie everywhere in the metropolis. And , you possibly can’t faux what Boston seems to be like. And , we’re bringing Boston actors up right here to visitor within the reveals.
General, the long-term aim is to finally transfer the complete manufacturing to Massachusetts. And between Blue Bloods being totally filmed in and round New York Metropolis (the place it came about) and Boston being the actor’s hometown, his want to go there full-time for his spinoff makes good sense.
So, whereas capturing the exteriors there’s good, that’s not the dream, because the Danny Reagan actor stated:
We’re doing every part we will, and hopefully, in success, we might be in Boston extra. That’s the aim.
As I discussed, his “dream of all goals” is to maneuver the present to its titular metropolis full-time. Nonetheless, for now, they’re working to compromise and make it work, as a result of, because the actor acknowledged, making TV is difficult.
Hopefully, although, they’ll fulfill this aim of filming Boston Blue in Boston totally, and the collection can have an extended life like its predecessor (simply with out the cancellation). To assist it do exactly that, be sure you tune into the Blue Bloods spinoff on CBS on Friday, October 17 at 10 p.m. ET or stream it the following day with a Paramount+ subscription.