CBS has FBI Tuesday, so why not Blue Bloods Friday?
It’s annoying that franchises take up a whole evening of tv — FBIs on Tuesdays on CBS and One Chicago on Wednesdays on NBC.
Nonetheless, if any present deserves an evening to itself, it’s Blue Bloods and any of its expansions. After insisting on canceling the unique on the peak of its reputation, the least CBS can do is give us THREE spinoffs.
Blue Bloods SHOULD Have Launched A Spinoff On The Lineup Earlier than It Went Off The Air
CBS screwed up by not even eager about spinoffs till after Blue Bloods began its closing season.
Truthfully, I don’t know that Blue Bloods’ cancellation will ever make sense to me. But when a by-product had been ready within the wings, it could have softened the blow.
(In addition they ought to have marketed the ultimate eight episodes as a shortened Blue Bloods season 15 as a substitute of calling them Blue Bloods Season 14 leftovers that solely received onto the autumn schedule due to the writers’ strike, however that’s irrelevant.)
Which may not have been attainable final season due to the writers’ strike, but when CBS had begun airing a Blue Bloods spinoff alongside these closing eight episodes of the unique present, it could have made the lack of Blue Bloods a lot simpler to take.
We’d have had half a season to get to know the brand new sequence, after which after Blue Bloods was achieved, the spinoff might have slid into its spot.
That will have given followers a seamless transition that didn’t contain placing issues in that point slot that completely don’t attraction to Blue Bloods fanatics.
Sadly, CBS didn’t try this.
As a substitute, they eliminated Blue Bloods from the schedule and caught S.W.A.T as a replacement, as if the explanation Blue Bloods was so common was that it was a police procedural, so some other crime drama would do.
CBS can’t return in time and repair that egregious error. However now that there’s a by-product on the desk, it might probably begin the method of fixing this by ordering two different spinoffs to accompany it.
Having a Bunch of Blue Bloods Spinoffs Would Be Like Having Blue Bloods Again
The rationale Blue Bloods labored so nicely wasn’t as a result of it was a police drama.
It was the household points — the one factor that fashionable viewers are hungry for that community TV doesn’t appear to need to give them anymore.
CBS felt the present was too costly, and that’s why it canceled Blue Bloods.
We will’t repair that at this level, but when we had an evening stuffed with spinoffs, it’d assist us really feel just like the Reagans are nonetheless in our front room each Friday evening.
Thus far, CBS has solely ordered one Blue Bloods spinoff: Boston Blue.
I’m excited however involved as a result of this new present guarantees to pluck Danny out of the Reagan household and put him in Boston, the place he’ll work together with another person’s outstanding cop household.
Think about, although, if there have been two different spinoffs on the identical evening as Boston Blue.
For instance, we might have:
- Danny in Boston on Boston Blue
- Jamie and Eddie working for Nassau County Police whereas caring for his or her new child in a by-product the place they transfer to the suburbs
- A prequel the place Frank is a younger father and cop and his father is Commissioner of Police (nonetheless my favourite Blue Bloods spinoff concept.)
Having all of these reveals on one evening would allow us to meet up with what many of the Reagans are doing after the finale (and do a deep dive into Frank’s previous that really appears like Blue Bloods.)
The Largest Drawback With The Blue Bloods Friday Concept: Too Many Potentialities
As a way to make this work, another reveals must be moved elsewhere or scrapped.
I’m petty sufficient to be okay with that. CBS handled Blue Bloods like one thing that wanted to be rushed into the trash when it was one in all its high reveals, in any case.
In addition to, that’s not the most important downside with this concept. The reality is, there are such a lot of Blue Bloods spinoff prospects that one evening isn’t sufficient.
We’d like a present from Erin’s standpoint in regards to the instances she tries, one about Joe Hill, and perhaps even one about Henry’s second act — him discovering function and staying related to the cops as a senior citizen who New York Metropolis desires to put in writing off as feeble and frail.
Overlook Blue Bloods Friday. We’d like a Blue Bloods channel that reveals nothing however spinoffs all week lengthy and reruns of the unique on the weekends.
Over to you, Blue Bloods fanatics.
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All 14 seasons of Blue Bloods presently stream on Paramount+. Boston Blue will air on CBS someday within the 2026-2027 TV season.
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