Patience will be a virtue for any Blue Bloods fans anticipating any sort of offshoot/Reagan family “fix” after the original series fades to black in December.
Last month, Paramount Global co-CEO Brian Robbins said during a presentation to stockholders,” In TV, new franchise extensions are coming for Dexter, Billions, and Blue Bloods” – quietly revealing that the long-running family/cop drama might spawn a spinoff.
It was not clear if any such offshoot would be for CBS or Paramount+. Instead, the focus right now seems to be on finding the very best premise, after one pitch centered on Donnie Wahlberg’s Danny Reagan failed to “materialize,” our sister site Deadline reports.
“We don’t have anything that’s going to be in development soon, but it’s a brand, a title and a show that is beloved,” CBS Studios president David Stapf told Deadline.
“We’ve got to get it right, so we’re taking our time and trying to figure it out, ‘OK, what is the next iteration of Blue Bloods?'” Stapf exolained. With the original series’ final eight episodes slated to air this fall through December, “We have a whole season to go where we intend to celebrate it all season long… so there’s still time for us to figure that out.”
Blue Bloods front man Tom Selleck and other cast members had lobbied for the show to continue, but CBS Entertainment president Amy Reisenbach has remained firm that it’s time for the cop show to turn in its badge.
“We love this cast, we love their passion for the show. All shows have to come to an end. It’s important to us to refresh the schedule,” Reisenbach said in May. “We are going to end the show come December.”
