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EXCLUSIVE: The approaching 14th season of CBS‘ venerable cop circle of relatives drama Blue Bloods can be its closing. The preferred collection starring Tom Selleck is getting a longer farewell with a two-part ultimate season which can include 18 episodes, Time limit has realized. The primary 10 will air this coming midseason, premiering on CBS Feb. 16 and streaming survive Paramount+; the remainder 8 will run in fall 2024.
Coming off a double Hollywood strike that lowered the sizes of the 2023-24 scripted seasons to 10-13 episodes each and every — with various CBS displays most effective doing 10 — the community is giving two of its best collection which are coming to an finish, Blue Bloods and Younger Sheldon, a right kind sendoff with expanded ultimate seasons. As Time limit reported closing week, the Giant Bang Principle prequel’s 7th and ultimate season can be produced from 14 episodes.
Donnie Wahlberg as Danny Reagan.
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Blue Bloods, about a couple of generations of the Reagan circle of relatives workin in New York regulation enforcement, is leaving whilst nonetheless on best. A protracted-time anchor to CBS’ ambitious Friday night time lineup, it was once essentially the most watched primetime program of the night time closing season and the #3 maximum watched broadcast drama with 9.54 million audience (greater than 11 million audience an episode after +35-day multiplatform viewing.) Blue Bloods, produced by way of CBS Studios, has gained its Friday 10 PM time fit in general audience each and every season because the collection’ 2010 release.
“Blue Bloods will eternally be a loved a part of CBS’s legacy. It dominated Friday nights with unparalleled dominance since its premiere and established itself as a pillar of our profitable lineup with an exceptionally trustworthy fan base,” Amy Reisenbach, President, CBS Leisure and David Stapf, President, CBS Studios, stated in a joint observation.
The 2 executives stated the collection’ superstar and government manufacturer Selleck, the past due Blue Bloods government manufacturer Leonard Goldberg, who died in 2019, and creator/government manufacturer Kevin Wade, who has been at the display since halfway during the first season and showrunner since Season 2. In addition they referenced a Blue Bloods fixture, the Reagan’s weekly Sunday dinner, which is on the middle of each and every episode.
Tony Terraciano as Jack Reagan, Will Estes as Jamie Reagan, Vanessa Ray as Officer Eddie Janko, Bridget Moynahan as Erin Reagan, Tom Selleck as Frank Reagan, Sami Gayle as Nicky Reagan-Boyle, Donnie Wahlberg as Danny Reagan, and Andrew Terraciano as Sean Reagan.
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“We’ll be eternally thankful to the mythical Leonard Goldberg for growing this signature collection and to the superb solid led by way of Tom Selleck, who The usa embraced as circle of relatives and watched as welcomed visitors on the Reagan dinner desk,” Reisenbach and Stapf stated. “We additionally sincerely thank the fantastic writing and generating groups guided by way of government manufacturer Kevin Wade, for years of compelling episodes as they conceive this ultimate bankruptcy that we predict to be essentially the most pleasurable season but for our dependable audience.”
As Time limit reported broadly previous this 12 months, Blue Bloods’ March renewal adopted tricky negotiations, with CBS inquiring for important price range cuts — 25% for above-the-line skill, together with actors — amid larger fiscal scrutiny within the media industry and a push to include manufacturing prices. The solid and manufacturers in the end agreed to the wage discounts in an effort to stay the display going and stay loads of staff and different beef up group of workers hired.
The March renewal got here with a presumption that Season 14 can be most likely the collection’ closing, assets stated. When the Blue Bloods writers reconvened in early October following the tip of the WGA strike, they began crafting the impending season as a possible ultimate bankruptcy, I listen. The verdict to finish Blue Bloods was once solidified after the tip of the SAG-AFTRA strike when the dimensions of the order was once decided and the theory to separate it into two portions happened.
Bridget Moynahan as Erin Reagan.
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Blue Bloods, which has aired 275 episodes in its 13 seasons so far, will finish its run with 293 episodes. With its 14 seasons, it ranks a few of the ten longest-running CBS scripted collection ever. Selleck leads a solid that still contains Donnie Wahlberg, Bridget Moynahan, Will Estes, Len Cariou, Marisa Ramirez and Vanessa Ray.
“For the previous 13 years it’s been an honor and a privilege to paintings on a display that now not most effective celebrates the women and men who offer protection to and serve in New York Town, but additionally displayed the significance of circle of relatives,” Selleck stated. “Running along those fantastic actors, writers, manufacturers, administrators and staff has been a dream come true and I’m thankful to were part of this atypical crew for over 275 episodes. Thanks to CBS Studios and CBS Community for his or her steadfast beef up and we provide heartfelt gratitude to the fanatics who accrued with us for dinner each and every Friday night time.”
Blue Bloods ranks within the best 10 for collection on Paramount+ in accordance with mins seen, and for seen channels on Pluto TV. With sturdy performances on CBS, streaming (together with a run on Netflix), in syndication and across the world, the drama, government produced by way of Wade, Siobhan Byrne-O’Connor, Ian Biederman and Dan Really, has develop into a key asset for the corporate during the last decade and a part.
Will Estes as Jamie Reagan and Vanessa Ray as Officer Eddie Janko.
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“It’s been an amazing privilege those previous 13 years to fill the massive canvas that Leonard Goldberg imagined; a police procedural informed from the perspective of 4 generations of a close-knit, fiercely dependable circle of relatives. Blue Bloods will go away in the back of a long-lasting legacy that was once jointly completed by way of our atypical solid, our proficient and tirelessly creative writers, and the most productive staff within the industry,” Wade stated. “CBS Studios and the CBS Tv Community inspired us to inform our tales in multi-layered narratives that experience long past directly to resonate with tens of millions of folks, and we thank them for his or her unwavering partnership and collaboration. We sit up for giving fanatics a thrilling and emotionally pleasurable ultimate season, and we’re eternally thankful for his or her enthusiasm and their loyalty over these kind of years.”
