Donnie Wahlberg made an odd comment about her on-screen dad Tom Selleck he thought of his own Blue Blood a spinoff Boston Blue.
“[With] Tom, when the time is right, I’m sure we’ll find something to do together [on the show],” Wahlberg said exclusively Us Weekly at CBS Fest on Wednesday, April 15. “Tom supported me in doing this.”
Wahlberg revealed that Selleck would “want to play” Frank again — or “may not.”
“But it’s really going to depend on the time, the situation and the script more than anything. But we’ve had other actors from Blue Bloods. It’s been amazing,” he noted “We’ve had Grandpa Reagan. We’ve had a few surprises before the end of the season with other Reagans. It’s great.”
He concluded: “Yes, it would be great to have Tom. It would be great. But when the time is right. Until then, onward.”
The former Blue Bloods star played Reagan family patriarch and NYC police commissioner Frank for 14 seasons of the CBS series, which premiered in 2010. Frank’s father, Henry Reagan (Le Cariou) and children – daughter Erin Reagan (Bridget Moynahan) and sons Danny (Wahlberg) and Jamie Reagan (Will Estes) – were also part of the program.
The speculation appeared in 2023 that Blue Blood it was about to end. At that time, the police procedure was renewed, but the actors and producers agreed to a 25 percent salary reduction. Selleck later addressed the news of the official cancellation and questioned the decision.
“I’m frustrated,” he told TV Insider in October 2024. “In those eight episodes, I didn’t want to talk about the end of Blue Bloods but it’s still very successful.”
Selleck disputes that Blue Blood he had to stay in the air, saying, “I’m not going to turn into a bitter old man saying, ‘Get off my lawn.’ I don’t believe in holding grudges, but if you said to a television show, ‘Here’s a show you can put on at the worst time you’ve got, and it’s going to make sure you win on Friday nights for the next 15 years,’ it would probably be hard to believe.”
At the time, Selleck said his frustration stemmed from a show that is often “taken for granted because it plays right from the start.”
“So, how do I feel?” he continued. “It will take a long time to fix all this, I remember after the weekend [of the final episode’s shoot]I said, ‘I’ll have to sleep early today because I have to do my interview on Monday.’ Well, there was no Monday. It will only take a little while.”
Ahead of the series finale, which aired one month later, Selleck opened up about what life was like next Blue Blood he may bring. “I don’t know where my next job will take me. A good Western is always on my list. I miss that. I want to get back on a horse,” he told Parade in December 2024. “I’d like to do another comedy. The right kind of comedy. Friends make people laugh and sometimes cry. That’s the kind of comedy I enjoy doing.”
Selleck was also asked if he would return Boston Blue, which premiered this October.
“I’m open to suggestions, because I love Frank Reagan, but nobody’s really asking,” Selleck told Parade. “I don’t see him retiring and going somewhere else.
Boston Blue airs on CBS Fridays at 10 pm ET.
