Donnie Wahlberg will be reprising his role from “Blue Bloods” as Det. Danny Reagan in the Boston-set spinoff series “Boston Blue.”
Donnie Wahlberg’s “Blue Bloods” detective Danny Reagan isn’t staying off the TV airwaves for long.
Only two months after the series finale of “Blue Bloods,” CBS announced that Wahlberg would reprise his role as Reagan in “Boston Blue,” a Boston-set spinoff of the crime procedural that ran for 14 seasons.
According to a press release, Danny will take a position with Boston PD on “Boston Blue,” where he will be paired with “detective Lena Peters, the eldest daughter of a prominent law enforcement family.”
“See you soon,” Wahlberg wrote on Instagram following the announcement.
The show will begin airing on CBS starting this fall. Though the network didn’t indicate what time slot “Boston Blue” will occupy, it would certainly make a lot of sense from a continuity perspective to air the show in the Friday 10 p.m. window previously occupied by “Blue Bloods.”
“Blue Bloods” starred Tom Selleck as NYPD Commissioner Frank Reagan, the father of NYPD detective Danny (Wahlberg) and NYPD Sergeant Jamie (Will Estes).
The show earned remarkably strong ratings during its 14-season run, consistently ranking among the top five scripted shows of the year.
CBS’ press release announcing “Boston Blue” doesn’t mention whether any of the “Blue Bloods” cast will be joining Wahlberg on the series. And given Selleck’s antagonistic comments toward CBS following the cancellation of “Blue Bloods,” the “Magnum P.I.” star may have burned that bridge.
After initially saying he believed the network would “come to its senses” and reverse its cancellation, Selleck later said he was “frustrated” by how he felt the show had been taken for granted.
“I don’t believe in holding grudges, but if you were to say to the television network, ‘Here’s a show you can program in the worst time slot you got, and it is going to guarantee you winning Friday night for the next 15 years,’ it would be almost impossible to believe,” Selleck told TV Insider. “My frustration is the show was always taken for granted because it performed from the get-go.”
At a May 2024 press conference, CBS Entertainment President Amy Reisenbach poured cold water on any sort of second-guessing the network’s decision.
“We love this cast, we love their passion for the show. All shows have to come to an end,” Reisenbach said. “It’s important to us to refresh the schedule.”
