CBS Renews 18 Series
by Peter White, Nellie Andreeva
May 6, 2020


CBS has renewed 18 more series for 2020-21 including the majority of its drama lineup and a trio of comedies.

"Blue Bloods" returns for season 11.

https://deadline.com/2020/05/cbs-renewals-1202927097/

Thanks for the great news! I wonder if any of the current things in the news will be acknowledged during the new season at all.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

Has it been said yet when the new season will start?

God bless you always!!!

Holly

Has it been said yet when the new season will start?

God bless you always!!!

HollyPremiere date for the new season has not been announced yet. Also, season 11 has unfortunately been cut to 16 episodes. Blue Bloods is one of several CBS shows that will have reduced orders because of required Covid safety protocols causing production delays and making things more expensive.

^^^ Thank you for the news. You addressed another matter that I wondered about and that was whether or not the new season would be as long as the other ones are.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

Blue Bloods boss: Criticism in wake of George Floyd is "legitimate," but our fans "take precedence over the 12 pundits who may watch it for the first time" (https://deadline.com/2020/12/blue-bloods-spoilers-recap-coronavirus-whoopi-goldberg-season-debut-kevin-wade-interview-police-cbs-1234649887/)

The CBS police drama (https://www.reddit.com/r/bluebloods/) returned Friday night for its Season 11 premiere (https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/113419-s11e01-triumph-over-trauma/), its first episode since the summer Black Lives Matter protests and the resulting increased scrutiny over police shows. But long before Floyd's death, Blue Bloods was criticized for being especially egregious for its "copaganda." As Laura Hudson wrote in Slate in 2014 (https://slate.com/culture/2014/12/blue-bloods-starring-tom-selleck-the-nypd-white-viewers-and-black-new-yorkers.html), "the cases that the Reagans encounter—especially the ripped-from-the-headlines ones about race and excessive force—offer constant reassurance that there are no true racial issues within the criminal justice system that can’t be solved by a speech about colorblindness or the steely resolve of Tom Selleck’s mustache. Worse, Blue Bloods has a habit of depicting people who speak up against the police as malicious, manipulative, or deceptive—and a lot of those people happen to be minorities." Showrunner Kevin Wade was asked by Deadline about Blue Bloods' pro-police depiction. He acknowledged there might be some 'blowback" for the way he decided to proceed with Season 11, which has added Whoopi Goldberg in a guest-starring role as a City Council Speaker looking for change in the way Tom Selleck’s Commissioner Frank Reagan and his department does business. "I think it’s a legitimate…listen, we were low-hanging fruit in terms of the police stuff," he says of the criticism. "We are a long-running show about a family of white cops, so I understood that the moment that George Floyd and everything happened. Of course, I do. On the other hand, listen, if it were the first season of Blue Bloods we’d probably be doing quite a few things differently or more dramatically. But it’s not and the people who are returning to watch it this Friday night and onwards hopefully are returning to something that they’ve grown to like over 10 years. To me, the respect and affection of the 12 million people that watch it frankly take precedence over the 12 pundits who may watch it for the first time because it’s a show about white cops." Wade adds: "We’re going to address all these things as we normally would. We’re in our 11th season. We have an enormous fan base that not only shows up on Friday nights but shows up for the syndicated shows, for streaming them, whatever it is. They come to it expecting a certain kind of show. I believe, maybe I’m kidding myself, but I do believe that when we’ve had issues, whether they were black and white or Catholic versus something or Puerto Rican or Hispanic versus something, we would build a platform of equal dimensions for the other side of the argument. Certainly, in the scenes between Tom and Whoopi in the first episode I was very aware, as was Siobhan of making sure not only that Whoopi’s Regina Thomas got to say her piece but that she said it as eloquently and as truly as Tom Selleck’s character does. That, to me, is where the bar is set that any time we…we do and we will delve into so-called hot-button issues but we’re not doing propaganda here, nor are we doing the news. We’re just doing Blue Bloods. So, what we do is going to be done through that decade-old filter at this point."

Last night's season eleven opener was good, but to me, if Eddie doesn't see the change that she believes should take place in her dad, how much does she actually owe the guy?

God bless you always!!!

Holly

P.S. I wonder what Erin's final words to Joe were?

"the cases that the Reagans encounter—especially the ripped-from-the-headlines ones about race and excessive force—offer constant reassurance that there are no true racial issues within the criminal justice system that can’t be solved by a speech about colorblindness or the steely resolve of Tom Selleck’s mustache.

I watched the show last night, not even realizing that it was a hotly anticipated season premier. I was a good episode...and I believe that I have seen most of this series, either through first runs since 2016 or via syndication.

Thomas Wilder was always my favorite character on this series, and considering the perp that shoved Baez down the cellar stairs was still at large at the conclusion of the episode, perhaps the series is preparing to give us another "Wilderesque" character? I think that would be great.

Regarding the pundits who are critical of the series over perceived slights to their preferred personal agenda....what better compliment could they give this series, than to insist that the show "matters"? ... Instant creds in my opinion.

As to the series in general, it amuses me the way Danny can go around flushing people's heads down toilets and brutalizing cashiers in their place of work merely for not answering a question promptly enough.....and yet it remains such a mystery to the old man why so many citizens have a negative view of his department?

At this point I am really wondering what part the new nephew is going to play in the series.
Perhaps a core element? Or just another sacrifice to the family's legacy for tragedy?