
Blue Bloods, which premiered in 2010, followed the lives of the Reagan family, many of whom worked for the NYPD. Speculation that Blue Bloods would end started in 2023, when the police procedural was renewed after the cast and producers agreed to take a 25 percent pay cut. Wahlberg exclusively told Us Weekly in April 2023 that he hoped to see Blue Bloods achieve the same level of success as Law and Order: Special Victims Unit.
Wahlberg noted that he wasn’t opposed to the idea of a Blue Bloods spinoff, joking, “Danny and Erin become private investigators and move to Hawaii, but that was too close to [Tom Selleck’s iconic 1980s series] Magnum, P.I., so we didn’t want to do that one.”
The actor got his wish with Boston Blue, which was announced after Blue Bloods ended in December 2024. Several of Wahlberg’s costars — including Tom Selleck — have discussed hopefully joining another project in the Blue Bloods universe.
“I’m open to suggestions, because I love Frank Reagan, but nobody’s really asked,” Selleck told Parade in December 2024. “I don’t see him retiring and going off somewhere.