‘Emotional’ Tom Selleck’s real feelings about the hotly-anticipated Blue Bloods spinoff have been revealed.
The screen icon, 80, played patriarch Frank Reagan on the CBS show from 2010-2024, alongside Donnie Wahlberg as Danny Reagan – who will lead the new series, Boston Blue.
A insider told Closer Selleck is open to the idea of coming back for a cameo on the new show, saying: ‘Tom’s been pretty vocal when it comes to his feelings about the network ending Blue Bloods. He did not want to say goodbye to that role, so naturally he’s very open to coming back and doing cameos on Donnie’s show.
‘They are still very close, over the nearly 15 years they worked together they developed such a fantastic relationship. They’re genuine friends, in a lot of ways they grew to be like family, that’s how bonded they were.
‘They both got emotional filming their last dinner scene on Blue Bloods because it was the last, but now that this series is happening, they may get to do another. It’s set in Boston so it won’t be a regular family dinner thing like on the last show but there’s the potential and Tom would be all for doing it.’
The show will move from New York City to Boston.
Blue Bloods debuted in 2010, following the Reagan’s, a family of New York City cops, led by patriarch Frank Reagan (Selleck).
The law & order family also included his sons Danny (Wahlberg) and Jamie (Will Estes) and daughter Erin (Bridget Moynihan).
The series ran for 14 seasons spanning 293 episodes, coming to a close with the series finale in December 2024.
The new series will follow Wahlberg’s Danny, who takes a position with the Boston Police Department, the actor’s hometown, according to a CBS press release.
He will be teamed up in Beantown with Lena Peters, who is the eldest daughter in a prominent Boston law enforcement family.
The new series will be entitled Boston Blue and was given a straight-to-series order from CBS, bypassing the pilot phase completely.
The show is being eyed to debut on CBS at some point in the 2025-2026 TV season though no specific date was given.
Brandon Sonnier & Brandon Margolis will serve as showrunners and executive producers on the new show.
They’ll be joined by executive producers Jerry Bruckheimer, KristieAnne Reed and Wahlberg as well.
The series will be produced by CBS Studios in association with Bruckheimer’s JBTV, which has had an overall deal with the studio since 2017.
Sonnier and Margolis got their writing start through the NBC Writers On the Verge program, which landed them on the writing staff of NBC’s The Blacklist.
After spending five seasons on the hit series, they moved on to create the Bad Boys TV spin-off L.A.’s Finest starring Gabrielle Union and Jessica Alba.
They also most recently wrote for CBS’ S.W.A.T. and Fox’s Alert: Missing Persons Unit.
The new series will be joined by yet another CBS spinoff – Sheriff Country – spun off from Fire Country, which is also produced by Bruckheimer.
CBS also renewed its gender-flipped Matlock TV series for the 2025-2026 season as well.
Bruckheimer also produces Fire Country and The Amazing Race for CBS.
The network will be making decisions about the rest of its scripted slate in the months to come, ahead of its upfront presentation in May.