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Donnie Wahlberg Teases What’s Next for BLUE BLOODS’ Reagan Family
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BLUE BLOODS star Donnie Wahlberg took to Instagram to share that the show’s 12th season has officially wrapped — and teased a possible 13th season.
“That’s a wrap on #BlueBloods season 12!” he captioned an onset selfie “Makes this #BlueBloods #Friday a little more special.”
He continued, “Thanks to all who have supported, and continue to support, me and my TV Family. Enjoy the show tonight, and the next few weeks! Then hopefully, we’re on to season 13 (god willing)!”
The BLUE BLOODS cast and its fans are still waiting on an official confirmation from CBS that the show will get to make another season. It hasn’t been canceled or renewed yet, but the police drama is one of the network’s top performers.
The 12th season of the show pulled in 5 million – 6 million viewers per episode, so it seems likely that BLUE BLOODS will get the greenlight for another season.
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Movieguide® previously reported on BLUE BLOODS and the emphasis the show places on family:
BLUE BLOODS actor Donnie Wahlberg, who plays Danny Reagan, said that the Reagan family dinners first attracted him to the role.
“Well, the family dinner scenes on BLUE BLOODS, the very first one that I ever read, obviously, was the pilot episode,” Wahlberg told Showbiz Cheat Sheet. “When I read that scene, that was the moment I decided I wanted to be a part of the show.”
However, Wahlberg also said that the pilot episode brought back uncomfortable memories about his childhood experience with family dinners.
The first episode shows the Reagans coming together for dinner after church. But because of a case, an argument breaks out, and Wahlberg’s character storms away from the table.
“It was so intimidating,” Wahlberg told TV Insider. “My character basically had to run roughshod over the table and to sit down with that cast and with Tom Selleck at the head of the table. My dad used to wear a mustache a lot, and he’s very intimidating and he sat at the head of the table like that.”
Wahlberg added: “It was sort of traumatizing for me to sit there and have to come in on my first day of shooting the series and just basically take over the dinner table.”
However, the family dinner scenes persisted over the course of 10 seasons of BLUE BLOODS and added to the realism of the Reagan family.
Wahlberg said that it was authentic for him and that if the pilot episode’s dinner scene did not work, the show would not work.
“I hadn’t been offered the job yet, so I had to go in and earn it,” Wahlberg said. “But I read that scene and it rang so true to my childhood and to my upbringing with all of us sitting around the table arguing and disagreeing and everyone have a different point of view.”
Wahlberg continued: “And with this brooding, mustached dad at the head of the table literally shooting that first dinner scene, it took me back to my childhood when my dad sat at the head of the table with his mustache holding court over the table. It just felt so authentic.”
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