CBS’ highly anticipated Blue Bloods spinoff Boston Blue is in the works — but what is there to know about the show so far?
Blue Bloods, which premiered in 2010, followed the lives of the Reagan family, many of whom worked for the NYPD. Speculation that Blue Bloods would end started in 2023, when the police procedural was renewed after the cast and producers agreed to take a 25 percent pay cut. Wahlberg exclusively told Us Weekly in April 2023 that he hoped to see Blue Bloods achieve the same level of success as Law and Order: Special Victims Unit.
“I mean, Ice-T and Mariska Hargitay have been going for gosh, so many years, and we hope to last as long as they have,” he shared at the time. “One of the things I’ve done is I try to just stay very present in each episode and take each script that comes my way and say, ‘OK, what’s gonna happen now? You know, what am I doing this week?’ And kind of find the journey in that particular episode and not get caught up in what’s gonna happen next year, what’s gonna happen in two years.”
Wahlberg noted that he wasn’t opposed to the idea of a Blue Bloods spinoff, joking, “Danny and Erin become private investigators and move to Hawaii, but that was too close to [Tom Selleck’s iconic 1980s series] Magnum, P.I., so we didn’t want to do that one.”
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The actor got his wish with Boston Blue, which was announced after Blue Bloods ended in December 2024. Several of Wahlberg’s costars — including Tom Selleck — have discussed hopefully joining another project in the Blue Bloods universe.
“I’m open to suggestions, because I love Frank Reagan, but nobody’s really asked,” Selleck told Parade in December 2024. “I don’t see him retiring and going off somewhere.”
Vanessa Ray, meanwhile, told TV Insider in October 2024, “I would do anything with these people. So, yes, of course. I don’t know what world it would make sense for Eddie to be in a spinoff at all. But if they need to put me in a wig and dye my eyebrows and I’ll play a different character just so I get to hang out with all of them more, then I’ll do it.”
