Why Tom Selleck Was Frustrated Amid Blue Bloods Coming to an End
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Tom Selleck is inactive feeling bluish implicit this news.
Days earlier the last 8 episodes of Blue Bloods volition air, the 79-year-old reflected connected the beloved bid and wherefore helium disagrees with its cancellation aft 14 seasons.
"I'm benignant of frustrated," Tom told TV Insider successful an interrogation published Oct. 3. "I haven't wanted to speech astir an ending for Blue Bloods but astir it inactive being wildly successful."
He pointed to the No. 9 spot it held connected Nielsen's Top 100 most-watched TV shows for 2023-24, and if you discounted the apical three, NFL Sunday Night, Monday Night and Thursday Night Football, it would fertile sixth.
"My vexation is the amusement was ever taken for granted due to the fact that it performed from the get-go," helium explained. "I don't judge successful holding grudges, but if you were to accidental to the tv network, 'Here's a amusement you tin programme successful the worst clip slot you got, and it is going to warrant you winning Friday nighttime for the adjacent 15 years,' it would beryllium astir intolerable to believe."
Tom—who played New York City Police Commissioner Frank Reagan alongside actors DonnieWahlberg, BridgetMoynahanand WillEstes—also admitted it would instrumentality him clip to cod his thoughts aft filming the amusement that archetypal aired successful 2010.
"I retrieve aft the play [of the last episode's shoot], I said, 'I've got to get to furniture aboriginal contiguous due to the fact that I person to bash my dialog for Monday,'" helium recalled. "Well, determination was nary Monday. It's conscionable going to instrumentality a while."
But the Magnum P.I. alum has besides been vocal astir his absorption successful the past. "I volition proceed to deliberation that CBS volition travel to their senses," helium admitted connected CBS Sunday Morning successful May. "All the formed wants to travel back. I tin archer you this: we aren't sliding disconnected down a cliff. We're doing bully shows and inactive holding our place."
Nonetheless, erstwhile CBS announced successful November that the bull play would beryllium concluding, helium took a infinitesimal to gush implicit his clip moving connected the task for 13 years.
"It has been an grant and a privilege to enactment connected a amusement that not lone celebrates the men and women who support and service successful New York City, but besides displayed the value of family," helium shared successful a connection astatine the time. “Working alongside these unthinkable actors, writers, producers, directors and unit has been a imagination travel existent and I'm grateful to person been a portion of this bonzer radical for implicit 275 episodes."
While we cognize the Reagan household has scheduled their past Sunday dinner, support speechmaking to spot the destiny of much TV shows.