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02-18-2025, 08:05 PM
Donnie Wahlberg to lead CBS Blue Bloods offshoot Boston Blue (https://deadline.com/2025/02/blue-bloods-series-boston-blue-donnie-wahlberg-danny-reagan-1236293667/)
Wahlberg will reprise his Danny Reagan Blue Bloods character on a series that has his NYPD detective character taking a job with the Boston PD. "Once in Boston, he is paired with Detective Lena Peters, the eldest daughter of a prominent law enforcement family.," reports Deadline's Nellie Andreeva. CBS has given the tentatively titled Boston Blue, from writers Brandon Sonnier and Brandon Margolis, a straight-to-series order with an eye towards it premiering during the 2025-2026 season. Andreeva adds that Boston Blue wasn't created with the intention of being a Blue Bloods spinoff: "While CBS and CBS Studios, which produced Blue Bloods, had explored spinoffs from the popular family police drama, including one that would’ve had Danny Reagan move to Texas and another one with Tom Selleck, Boston Blue was not conceived as a Blue Bloods offshoot,” says Andreeva. “It originated with Sonnier and Margolis, along with JBTV, pitching CBS Studios and CBS a drama that follows a family of police officers in Boston whose eldest daughter is partnered with a new transfer from LAPD. The network ordered a script based off that pitch, sources said. The script was well received at both the network and the studio whose executives saw the Boston family police drama project as an opportunity to make it part of the Blue Bloods universe by bringing in a character from the New York family cop drama."
Wahlberg will reprise his Danny Reagan Blue Bloods character on a series that has his NYPD detective character taking a job with the Boston PD. "Once in Boston, he is paired with Detective Lena Peters, the eldest daughter of a prominent law enforcement family.," reports Deadline's Nellie Andreeva. CBS has given the tentatively titled Boston Blue, from writers Brandon Sonnier and Brandon Margolis, a straight-to-series order with an eye towards it premiering during the 2025-2026 season. Andreeva adds that Boston Blue wasn't created with the intention of being a Blue Bloods spinoff: "While CBS and CBS Studios, which produced Blue Bloods, had explored spinoffs from the popular family police drama, including one that would’ve had Danny Reagan move to Texas and another one with Tom Selleck, Boston Blue was not conceived as a Blue Bloods offshoot,” says Andreeva. “It originated with Sonnier and Margolis, along with JBTV, pitching CBS Studios and CBS a drama that follows a family of police officers in Boston whose eldest daughter is partnered with a new transfer from LAPD. The network ordered a script based off that pitch, sources said. The script was well received at both the network and the studio whose executives saw the Boston family police drama project as an opportunity to make it part of the Blue Bloods universe by bringing in a character from the New York family cop drama."