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Tom Selleck Would Rather Do More Jesse Stone Movies Than a ‘Blue Bloods’ Spinoff for This Reason
It’s safe to say Tom Selleck doesn’t think Blue Bloods fans will see Frank Reagan in a spinoff after the season 14 finale airs. The TV icon shared an unfortunate update about talks surrounding the show’s potential revival after its cancellation.
“I’m open to suggestions because I love Frank Reagan, but nobody’s really asked,” he told Parade Magazine in an interview published on Friday, December 6, of whether or not he would do a spinoff. “I don’t see him retiring and going off somewhere. If he goes off to a small town, I’d rather do more Jesse Stone movies.”
Tom, 79, will appear in the Blue Bloods penultimate episode on December 6, as well as the show’s highly-anticipated season finale on Friday, December 13.
He famously appeared in nine Jesse Stone films, with the most recent one being Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise in 2015. But now that Blue Bloods has wrapped, Tom will certainly have more time on his hands for other projects.
The Magnum, P. I. alum’s costars have also been publicly discussing possible spinoff options, including one in L.A. But still nothing has been officially announced.
“There was talk of a spinoff happening,” cast member Abigail Hawk told Hello! Magazine in October. “But if it did happen, so immediately after our series ends, it would have to be not involving the Reagan’s or the NYPD at all. It would have to be set in L.A. or we follow a different family.”
At the time of her interview, Abigail, 42, said that she still had hope that CBS would overturn the decision to cancel Blue Bloods.
“Now I think once these episodes start airing, CBS executives may realize that they have made a colossal error and perhaps rethink down the line so I think it remains possible,” she said.
“I don’t think there’s a possibility of it going to another network – I know that there’s been a bit of chatter about that, but I don’t think that that’s a viable option given the talks that we’ve had with the cast and the producers and things like that,” she added. “But hope floats, and I think it’s necessary to have something to hang on to and we would all certainly drop everything and make that happen. At the end of the day, CBS can do whatever they want, but I hope they realize not only how commercially viable Blue Bloods is, but how beloved it is, and the staying power that it has, because family is universal and there are more stories to be told.”
Unfortunately, it looks like CBS will not be overturning their decision, as they aired a retrospective special to say goodbye to Blue Bloods on November 29. Still, the cast and crew were happy to reflect on their best memories from the set of the show.
Abigail in particular credited Tom for helping her get her big breakthrough on the show. Initially, she was only supposed to appear in one episode after the pilot.
“You know Abigail started, and she had one line, and she earned that position,” Tom said during Blue Bloods: Celebrating a Family Legacy.
“Tom advocated for me and it changed my life,” Abigail said after appearing in more than 260 episodes of the show ahead of the finale.
