Blue Bloods Spinoff Casts Psych Star As A Member Of The Police Force

The upcoming Blue Bloods spinoff, Boston Blue, has cast its latest star. After a run that spanned more than a decade, Blue Bloods ended its run on CBS after 14 seasons. News followed in February that a spinoff of the police procedural was moving forward at the network, with Donnie Wahlberg reprising the role of Danny Reagan, though he’ll be joined by a largely new cast.

Deadline has confirmed the latest addition to the upcoming spinoff, confirming that Psych‘s Maggie Lawson is set to join Boston Blue in a main cast member capacity alongside Wahlberg and the previously announced actors Sonequa Martin-Green and Ernie Hudson. Lawson, known for her role as Juliet O’Hara in the long-running crime dramedy Psych, will play the Superintendent of the Boston Police Department.

What The Latest Cast Addition Means For Boston Blue

It’s A Family Affair

Reprising his role as NYPD Officer Danny Reagan, Wahlberg’s character takes a job with the Boston Police Department. He gets paired with Detective Lena Silver (Martin-Green), the eldest daughter of a prominent law enforcement family, and he’ll work under Sarah Silver (Lawson), the Superintendent of the Boston Police Department, who is described as confident. She is also Lena’s stepsister, walking the tightrope between her family and her job.

The family ties are completed by Ernie Hudson’s character, who plays Reverend Peters. The patriarch of the blended Silver family, Peters is the father of Mae Silver, Boston’s District Attorney, and grandfather of Detective Lena Silver, Sarah Silver (Lawson), and rookie patrol cop Isaac Silver. Some of these roles have yet to be announced, but it sets up the spinoff to have a different family focus than the original series.

Our Take On How Boston Blue Is Shaping Up

It Has The Right Stuff

The spinoff, which is produced by CBS Studios in association with Jerry Bruckheimer TV, with Brandon Sonnier and Brandon Margolis as showrunners and executive producers, will be a departure from the long-running police procedural. However, with Jerry Bruckheimer, KristieAnne Reed, and Wahlberg himself as executive producers, plus the veteran Anthony Hemingway as director, there will be a lot of progression. There is also continuity in terms of the story, although the family of Boston Blue has their own challenges and struggles that will set the new drama apart from what came before with the Reagan family.