“Tom Selleck Thanks CBS for ‘Blue Bloods’ as Show Enters Final Stage”

Tom Selleck thanked CBS for the final eight episodes of the popular family cop drama Blue bloods, which will air tonight and, once completed, will end the show’s impressive 14-season run.

“These eight shows that we have to look forward to are because CBS agreed and wanted to do this and celebrate – not just celebrate.” Blue blood but remember his legacy. And I just wanted to thank them,” the actor said at PaleyFest in NYC.

By the end of Season 14, Part 2, the series will have aired nearly 300 episodes. Part 1 aired from February to May.

Deadline first reported the end of CBS’ plans Blue blood‘ ran almost a year ago. Network executives later said, “All shows must come to an end. It’s important to us to update the schedule,” acknowledging that EP and showrunner Kevin Wade’s series had been an integral part of the schedule. The financial burden required to keep a long-running show running was likely a deciding factor in the decision.

Cast members have lamented the network’s decision to close a television show that still attracted large audiences. Selleck, who plays NYPD Police Commissioner Frank Reagan, has been less forgiving in recent comments. “My frustration is that the show has always been taken for granted because it worked right from the start,” he said after the cancellation.

At the event on Thursday evening the Magnum, P.I Star also spoke about broadcast television, which has lost viewership due to streaming competition.

“I have a lot of faith and trust in broadcast television. I think it suffered from being placed second or third. And you know, I don’t think everyone in the world wants to spend an hour searching on their remote control for what they want to watch,” he said. He is proud of that Blue blood became “an appointment.”

“That was hard at ten o’clock at night… That’s rare.” And above all, it’s a reflection of our work. And that’s kind of the ultimate compliment.”

“Blue Bloods” airs Fridays at 10 p.m. ET.

“I think we are aware of the enormous amount of clichés in serial television,” he said. “And we comment on them, and we bring them up, and by commenting on them, it really helps the audience because, again, you’re sharing something. Magnum had a voice-over narration. We have an audience that, when we sit down to a family dinner, knows a lot of secrets that maybe not everyone at that table knows. And that’s the feeling of discovery… ‘Hey, wait until he hears this’.”

Selleck is referring to the intergenerational New York police family’s weekly Sunday dinner, which forms the focus of each episode. Selleck began the evening by reading an emotional letter from the family Blue blood EP, Leonard Goldberg, who initially envisioned the dinner as the centerpiece of the show.

“People come up to us and thank us for these scenes,” said Moynahan, who plays Selleck’s daughter, Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Erin Reagan Boyle (and Natasha). Sex in the city And And just like that).

Also on stage in NYC (where the show is filmed) were Len Cariou (Henry Reagan); Donnie Wahlberg (Detective Danny Reagan); Marisa Ramirez (Detective Maria Baez), Vanessa Ray (Eddie Janko, police officer and wife of Jamie Reagan, played by Will Estes) and Wade.

Cariou joked about being cast as Sellecks’ father, alluding to the six-year age difference between the two actors. Wahlberg said his other appearance in the band New Kids On The Block helped make the show so popular.

Mostly they talked about the end of an era and a large part of everyone’s life and sometimes the end. “We would be working on schedule right now, and I really miss that,” Selleck said. “But what I miss most are my friends, my acting family.”

“This opportunity we had, this gift of seeing everyone once every eight working days… It was always something to look forward to. There are two families – the Reagan family and the actors’ family.”

The convo followed the screening of tonight’s episode, “Life Sentence.” In it, Erin is accused of tampering with the jury, which complicates the murder case of Danny and Maria. Eddie befriends a child murder witness. Frank clashes with his friend and confidant Archbishop Kearn (Stacey Keach) over the death penalty. Jamie teams up with his nephew Joe Hill (Will Hochman) to recover his stolen car. Peter Hermann returns as John “Jack” Boyle, a defense attorney and Erin’s former husband.