When exhibits attain double-digit seasons (and even earlier than that), the query inevitably arises: “How long can it continue?” With Blue Bloods now in its thirteenth season, we’re looking at simply that.
Since premiering in 2010, the drama (a success for CBS on Fridays) has adopted the Reagan household — present police commissioner Frank (Tom Selleck), detective Danny (Donnie Wahlberg), lawyer Erin (Bridget Moynahan), a cop (with a few promotions) Jamie (Will Estes), and former commissioner Henry (Len Cariou). Like with all procedurals, it has a formulaic component to it: every member of the household offers with one thing of their respective lives, then inevitably, one thing results in a debate over the dinner desk on Sundays (a staple a number of folks exterior the household have scored invitations).
Ahead of the Season 13 premiere, when requested if he’d be in to go till Season 15, as Moynahan is, Selleck informed TV Insider, “I’ve got a mortgage. I’m game!”
Would Season 15 be the proper place to finish the collection? Maybe. After all, we’ve seen Frank wrestling with retiring — and when that occurs, the collection does have to finish as a result of it could lose the scenes with him and his interior circle — Jamie and Eddie (Vanessa Ray) get married, Jamie shifting up within the NYPD, Erin planning her marketing campaign for DA, and different milestones. Another two seasons would give the present an opportunity to settle the Reagans in for his or her subsequent chapters (off-screen). Plus, not each procedural wants to succeed in 20+ seasons. In truth, one other CBS drama mentioned goodbye with 15 seasons in recent times (Criminal Minds, earlier than persevering with with Evolution on Paramount+).
Or ought to Blue Bloods merely go so long as Selleck says “yes” to a different season? After all, we will’t think about the collection with out him. Now, you would possibly say that we might’ve mentioned the identical factor about NCIS with out Mark Harmon, and that’s nonetheless going. However, persevering with with out Selleck would imply both having his seat empty on the dinner desk or another person filling it, neither of which might really feel proper.
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Blue Bloods, Winter Premiere, Friday, January 6, 10/9c, CBS