After 14 thrilling seasons, a whole lot of Sunday household dinners, and an immeasurable variety of heartfelt moments, the enduring drama Blue Bloods bid adieu to viewers in December 2024 after CBS shockingly canceled the collection, leaving followers and forged members devastated. The CBS staple famously centered on the celebrated Reagans, a New York Metropolis household with an extended historical past in regulation enforcement, who try and stability their private {and professional} ambitions.
That includes a gifted forged led by Tom Selleck, Donnie Wahlberg, and Bridget Moynahan, the collection dominated the community’s Friday 10:00 pm slot and have become an anchor for the community, delivering regular scores over the course of its 293 episodes. In February 2025, CBS introduced that Boston Blue, a derivative of Blue Bloods, was in growth, with Wahlberg returning as Danny Reagan. Since then, the follow-up has been including acquainted faces to its new forged, together with Ghostbusters alum Ernie Hudson, with followers hoping to see Selleck return as nicely.
Blue Bloods
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2010 – 2024
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CBS
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David Barrett, Ralph Hemecker, Alex Zakrzewski, Robert Harmon, John Behring, Alex Chapple, Jackeline Tejada, Douglas Aarniokoski, Eric Laneuville, Michael Pressman, John Polson, Heather Cappiello, Félix Enríquez Alcalá, Jennifer Opresnick, Peter Werner, Donald E. Thorin Jr., Frederick King Keller, Bridget Moynahan, Dean White, Deran Sarafian, James Whitmore Jr., Martha Mitchell, Rachel Feldman, Robert Duncan McNeill
Ernie Hudson Joins the Spectacular Forged of ‘Boston Blue’
Hollywood veteran Ernie Hudson has been a continuing staple on each the massive and small display screen for many years, having first skyrocketed to prominence when he appeared as newbie spirit-hunter Winston Zeddemore within the beloved ’80s traditional Ghostbusters. Since then, Hudson has memorably performed a police sergeant in The Crow, a jail warden within the HBO hit Oz, and a farmer romancing Lily Tomlin within the comedy Grace & Frankie (to call only a few of his stellar tasks). The esteemed actor is now setting his sights on a brand-new, thrilling position: a revered Boston reverend.
Hudson shall be bringing his easy allure and silky-smooth voice to the position of Reverend Peters within the upcoming police drama Boston Blue, the buzzed-about spinoff of Blue Bloods that may see the actor enjoying an analogous position to Tom Selleck’s Frank Reagan within the unique collection. For 14 seasons, the Magnum P.I. star served as the center of the Irish Catholic clan, who all took a break from their hectic careers and convened each week for a Sunday dinner to catch up. Frank’s unflappable disposition and devotion to his family members and regulation enforcement helped hold the present refreshingly grounded throughout its enduring run.
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The Quantum Leap alum shall be becoming a member of unique star Donnie Wahlberg, together with fellow newcomers Sonequa Martin-Inexperienced and Maggie Lawson, and can seem as a revered pastor of a historic Baptist Church in Boston. Like Frank Reagan, Revered Peters will function the household patriarch and is the grandfather of Detective Lena Silver (Martin-Inexperienced) and Superintendent Sarah Silver (Lawson), in addition to the yet-to-be-cast rookie cop Isaac Silver and their District Lawyer mom, Mae Silver. Although followers are excited in regards to the ever-growing forged, it is exhausting to not hope that unique Blue Bloods stars will even make an look, particularly the one-and-only Selleck.
Followers Are Hoping Selleck Joins Hudson in ‘Boston Blue’
The inventive staff behind Boston Blue ought to positively discover a approach to deliver again Frank Reagan, as he was such an enormous purpose the collection grew to become the huge hit it was. After Blue Bloods was surprisingly canceled in 2024 after 14 seasons, each Selleck and longtime followers have been left perplexed as to why the police drama received the ax after changing into a reliable anchor for CBS. Forward of the present’s collection finale, Selleck informed TV Insider, “I am type of annoyed” earlier than saying it did not make sense to cancel Blue Bloods as a result of it had a devoted viewers. He said:
“My frustration is the present was all the time taken as a right as a result of it carried out from the get-go. So how do I really feel? It’s going to take a very long time to type all of this out. I keep in mind after the weekend [of the final episode’s shoot], I mentioned, ‘I’ve received to get to mattress early tonight as a result of I’ve to do my dialogue for Monday.’ Nicely, there was no Monday. It’s simply going to take some time.”
It definitely looks like a no brainer to reunite on-screen father/son Selleck and Wahlberg in Boston Blue, because the elder Reagan all the time did an excellent job at retaining the hot-headed Danny centered by offering him with limitless steering and knowledge. Followers shall be pleased to study that Wahlberg himself is pushing very exhausting to have Selleck be part of him within the upcoming spinoff, as Selleck can be greater than open to showing in Boston Blue and as soon as once more moving into the sneakers of Frank Reagan. Selleck informed Parade in December 2024:
“You may take characters and put them elsewhere. However the viewers is saying ‘The place’s the household?’ They’ve turn out to be accustomed to seeing the household. It is a tough job and I am open to ideas as a result of I like Frank Reagan.”
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Selleck fought exhausting to avoid wasting Blue Bloods and spent most of 2024 advocating for added episodes and seasons, to no avail, regardless of the drama remaining stable in its storytelling, performances, and writing up till the final scene. We’ll have to attend and see whether or not Wahlberg is profitable in his bid to reunite with Selleck and get the Reagans to share the display screen as soon as once more. However followers ought to really feel optimistic that Boston Blue will nonetheless promote sturdy household values and regulation enforcement when it makes its debut this fall, identical to Blue Bloods did throughout its time on air. Stream Blue Bloods on Paramount+. Search for Boston Blue on CBS this fall.