Bummed about this but Tom Selleck is really starting to show his age and in the real world would have already been retired for 10-15 years:

Blue Bloods ending with season 14

I read that he's only a few years younger than the guy who plays his father on the show.


Season 14 premiere: Friday, Feb 16 at 10 p.m. on CBS

CBS’ long-running police drama Blue Bloods will be wrapping up with a two-part final season after over a decade. Starring Tom Selleck, Donnie Wahlberg, Will Estes, Bridget Moynahan, and Vanessa Ray, the upcoming 14th season will be split into two installments consisting of 18 episodes in total, according to Deadline.

Part one of Season 14 is slated to return on Friday, Feb 16 at 10 p.m. EST, while the second half of the season, consisting of eight episodes, will arrive in the fall of 2024.

I really enjoy this series and watch re-runs as well as new episodes. But yeah, this was inevitable.

This is a good show, nothing PC or woke about it. If an officer does something controversial like a cross-racial shooting, but otherwise did everything right (i.e., followed department policy and procedures), the commissioner has their back, sometimes even at the risk of his own job; if not, the officer gets appropriate disciplinary action. A neat touch adding realism is the portrait of Theodore Roosevelt in his office. Roosevelt was NYPD's first commissioner (actually the president of a board of commissioners).

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I read that he's only a few years younger than the guy who plays his father on the show.

I read that the father (Len Cariou) actually wears makeup and a teeth prosthesis to make him look older.

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Originally posted by PASig:

I read that he's only a few years younger than the guy who plays his father on the show.

If memory serves the difference in age between the two is only 4 or so years.

Bummer

Yup, heard this, sad to see it go. The wife will not be happy at all.

If only NYC could operate the same way as it is displayed on Blue Bloods, it would be a much better place.

This has probably been our favorite show in the years it has run. Darn few good TV shows left as reality TV has taken over.

I think when you watch him walk the arthritis is taking its toll
Good career over the years and bb was worth watching

Bumping this with the premiere date for final season; this Friday Oct 18, 2024

Looks like it will be 8 more episodes then that's it. Hope it doesn't feel rushed

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Originally posted by smschulz:
If only NYC could operate the same way as it is displayed on Blue Bloods, it would be a much better place.

Yeah, that NYC is gone now

It's almost like this show operates in an alternate/parallel Earth's NYC now

I am looking forward to picking up the last season on DVD. I have all the other seasons. I see that they are selling the first half of the last season on DVD. I am assuming they will do that for the last half as well.

I liked the show, but not as much recently. Like most shows with a long run like that, it ran out of gas a while ago.

Not to hijack the thread but I agree. Most good shows probably have 5 seasons in them before the writing and story telling hits the wall. Average shows, maybe four, and really great shows can stretch it for 8-10 years.

It amazes me that Law and Order SVU has 25 seasons, and it was a spinoff of Law and Order that started in '90.

I used to like Chicago P.D. when it came out in 2014, but I haven't watched it much passed the 5th season. Likewise NCIS came out 20 years ago. I was still watching solidly 8 years into it, but not so much now.

As to Blue Bloods, I haven't seen an episode in nearly 4 years. I thought the righting and acting were always solid, but as some have said, Sellecs character is pushing 80, and would have been retired 10-15 years ago. That makes the character of his dad an amazingly active centigenerian, (or damn close to it).