By Gavin Boyle
A year after BLUE BLOODS aired its final episode on CBS, star Tom Selleck wants fans of the show to know that it was a success through and through, and the network was the only one who wanted the show to end.
“Nobody wanted it to end. My biggest goal is to make sure people realize we went out in rather spectacular success. [The show] wasn’t tired, it wasn’t anything else. Somebody may be able to tell me someday why CBS wanted to end it, but I haven’t had a good answer yet,” Selleck told Entertainment Weekly.
Selleck and the rest of the cast of BLUE BLOODS were so heartbroken when they received the news that the show was being canceled that they agreed to a major pay cut and petitioned for one final season – which the network granted. Selleck was extremely disappointed when CBS went through with the cancelation after the final season aired, despite the show’s continued popularity.
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“CBS will find an awful lot of people aren’t ready to say goodbye to it. The show’s more popular than ever, and I think [numbers] will increase with the interest this year. We’re certainly not out of ideas,” he said. “I’m not counting the days so I can do something else. I love the work. Sometimes the hours are a little harder because I’m older, but so what? I want work as long as they’ll have me.”
CBS, however, continues to argue that the show was costing the network too much to produce, despite it being one of the most popular shows on television. It has since launched a BLUE BLOODS spinoff – BOSTON BLUE – which follows Donnie Wahlberg’s Danny Reagan in a new journey in Boston.
The spinoff has helped keep the franchise alive by not only continuing Danny Reagan’s story but also promising to have regular guest stars from the original show join the cast.
“There were zero [BLUE BLOODS] castmates originally in the [BOSTON BLUE] pilot; now they’re creeping in, and they’ll be coming back,” Wahlberg told Deadline in October.
“In success, this could lead anywhere,” he said of BOSTON BLUE. “This could lead to another BLUE BLOODS-universe show and you know, my dream is, in success, we do a movie all together. We get BLUE BLOODS and BOSTON BLUE together and do a feature film. But yes, we want to incorporate [both] worlds as much as possible.”
Thus, while the cancellation of BLUE BLOODS will always be heartbreaking and confusing to Selleck, fans of the franchise at least have a place to continue the story of the Reagan family.
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