‘Blue Bloods’ To Finish With 2-Half Season 14 In Spring 2023 & Fall 2024 – Deadline

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EXCLUSIVE: The upcoming 14th season of CBS‘ venerable cop household drama Blue Bloods might be its final. The favored collection starring Tom Selleck is getting an prolonged farewell with a two-part last season which can encompass 18 episodes, Deadline has realized. The primary 10 will air this coming midseason, premiering on CBS Feb. 16 and streaming reside on Paramount+; the remaining 8 will run in fall 2024.

Coming off a double Hollywood strike that diminished the sizes of the 2023-24 scripted seasons to 10-13 episodes every — with quite a few CBS exhibits solely doing 10 — the community is giving two of its prime collection which can be coming to an finish, Blue Bloods and Younger Sheldon, a correct sendoff with expanded last seasons. As Deadline reported final week, the Huge Bang Idea prequel’s seventh and last season might be comprised of 14 episodes.

Blue Bloods, about a number of generations of the Reagan household workin in New York regulation enforcement, is leaving whereas nonetheless on prime. A protracted-time anchor to CBS’ formidable Friday night time lineup, it was probably the most watched primetime program of the night time final season and the #3 most watched broadcast drama with 9.54 million viewers (greater than 11 million viewers an episode after +35-day multiplatform viewing.) Blue Bloods, produced by CBS Studios, has gained its Friday 10 PM time slot in complete viewers each season because the collection’ 2010 launch.

“Blue Bloods will without end be a beloved a part of CBS’s legacy. It dominated Friday nights with unprecedented dominance since its premiere and established itself as a pillar of our profitable lineup with an exceptionally devoted fan base,” Amy Reisenbach, President, CBS Leisure and David Stapf, President, CBS Studios, stated in a joint assertion.

The 2 executives acknowledged the collection’ star and govt producer Selleck, the late Blue Bloods govt producer Leonard Goldberg, who died in 2019, and author/govt producer Kevin Wade, who has been on the present since halfway via the primary season and showrunner since Season 2. Additionally they referenced a Blue Bloods fixture, the Reagan’s weekly Sunday dinner, which is on the coronary heart of every episode.

“We’ll be without end grateful to the legendary Leonard Goldberg for growing this signature collection and to the wonderful solid led by Tom Selleck, who America embraced as household and watched as welcomed visitors on the Reagan dinner desk,” Reisenbach and Stapf stated. “We additionally sincerely thank the unbelievable writing and producing groups guided by govt producer Kevin Wade, for years of compelling episodes as they conceive this last chapter that we anticipate to be probably the most satisfying season but for our loyal viewers.”

As Deadline reported extensively earlier this 12 months, Blue Bloods’ March renewal adopted tough negotiations, with CBS asking for vital price range cuts — 25% for above-the-line expertise, together with actors — amid elevated fiscal scrutiny within the media enterprise and a push to comprise manufacturing prices. The solid and producers in the end agreed to the wage reductions to be able to preserve the present going and preserve tons of of crew and different help personnel employed.

The March renewal got here with a presumption that Season 14 could be seemingly the collection’ final, sources stated. When the Blue Bloods writers reconvened in early October following the tip of the WGA strike, they began crafting the upcoming season as a possible last chapter, I hear. The choice to finish Blue Bloods was solidified after the tip of the SAG-AFTRA strike when the scale of the order was decided and the thought to separate it into two elements took place.

Blue Bloods, which has aired 275 episodes in its 13 seasons to this point, will finish its run with 293 episodes. With its 14 seasons, it ranks among the many ten longest-running CBS scripted collection ever. Selleck leads a solid that additionally consists of Donnie Wahlberg, Bridget Moynahan, Will Estes, Len Cariou, Marisa Ramirez and Vanessa Ray.

“For the previous 13 years it has been an honor and a privilege to work on a present that not solely celebrates the women and men who shield and serve in New York Metropolis, but additionally displayed the significance of household,” Selleck stated. “Working alongside these unbelievable actors, writers, producers, administrators and crew has been a dream come true and I’m grateful to have been part of this extraordinary group for over 275 episodes. Thanks to CBS Studios and CBS Community for his or her steadfast help and we provide heartfelt gratitude to the followers who gathered with us for dinner each Friday night time.”

Blue Bloods ranks within the prime 10 for collection on Paramount+ based mostly on minutes considered, and for considered channels on Pluto TV. With sturdy performances on CBS, streaming (together with a run on Netflix), in syndication and internationally, the drama, govt produced by Wade, Siobhan Byrne-O’Connor, Ian Biederman and Dan Actually, has grow to be a key asset for the corporate over the previous decade and a half.

“It has been an incredible privilege these previous 13 years to fill the large canvas that Leonard Goldberg imagined; a police procedural informed from the perspective of 4 generations of a close-knit, fiercely loyal household. Blue Bloods will go away behind a permanent legacy that was collectively achieved by our extraordinary solid, our proficient and tirelessly creative writers, and the very best crew within the enterprise,” Wade stated. “CBS Studios and the CBS Tv Community inspired us to inform our tales in multi-layered narratives which have gone on to resonate with tens of millions of individuals, and we thank them for his or her unwavering partnership and collaboration. We stay up for giving followers an thrilling and emotionally satisfying last season, and we’re without end grateful for his or her enthusiasm and their loyalty over all these years.”