CBS has FBI Tuesday, so why not Blue Bloods Friday?
It’s annoying that franchises take up a whole night time of tv — FBIs on Tuesdays on CBS and One Chicago on Wednesdays on NBC.
Nonetheless, if any present deserves an evening to itself, it’s Blue Bloods and any of its expansions. After insisting on canceling the unique on the peak of its recognition, the least CBS can do is give us THREE spinoffs.
Blue Bloods SHOULD Have Launched A Spinoff On The Lineup Earlier than It Went Off The Air
CBS screwed up by not even eager about spinoffs till after Blue Bloods began its last season.
Truthfully, I don’t know that Blue Bloods’ cancellation will ever make sense to me. But when a derivative had been ready within the wings, it could have softened the blow.
(Additionally they ought to have marketed the ultimate eight episodes as a shortened Blue Bloods season 15 as a substitute of calling them Blue Bloods Season 14 leftovers that solely received onto the autumn schedule due to the writers’ strike, however that’s irrelevant.)
Which may not have been doable final season due to the writers’ strike, but when CBS had begun airing a Blue Bloods spinoff alongside these last eight episodes of the unique present, it could have made the lack of Blue Bloods a lot simpler to take.
We’d have had half a season to get to know the brand new collection, after which after Blue Bloods was performed, the spinoff might have slid into its spot.
That will have given followers a seamless transition that didn’t contain placing issues in that point slot that completely don’t attraction to Blue Bloods fanatics.
Sadly, CBS didn’t do this.
As a substitute, they eliminated Blue Bloods from the schedule and caught S.W.A.T as a replacement, as if the rationale Blue Bloods was so fashionable was that it was a police procedural, so another crime drama would do.
CBS can’t return in time and repair that egregious error. However now that there’s a derivative on the desk, it might probably begin the method of fixing this by ordering two different spinoffs to accompany it.
Having a Bunch of Blue Bloods Spinoffs Would Be Like Having Blue Bloods Again
The explanation Blue Bloods labored so nicely wasn’t as a result of it was a police drama.
It was the household elements — the one factor that fashionable viewers are hungry for that community TV doesn’t appear to need to give them anymore.
CBS felt the present was too costly, and that’s why it canceled Blue Bloods.
We will’t repair that at this level, but when we had an evening stuffed with spinoffs, it’d assist us really feel just like the Reagans are nonetheless in our lounge each Friday night time.
To this point, CBS has solely ordered one Blue Bloods spinoff: Boston Blue.
I’m excited however involved as a result of this new present guarantees to pluck Danny out of the Reagan household and put him in Boston, the place he’ll work together with another person’s outstanding cop household.
Think about, although, if there have been two different spinoffs on the identical night time as Boston Blue.
For instance, we might have:
- Danny in Boston on Boston Blue
- Jamie and Eddie working for Nassau County Police whereas caring for his or her new child in a derivative the place they transfer to the suburbs
- A prequel the place Frank is a younger father and cop and his father is Commissioner of Police (nonetheless my favourite Blue Bloods spinoff thought.)
Having all of these exhibits on one night time would allow us to meet up with what many of the Reagans are doing after the finale (and do a deep dive into Frank’s previous that truly seems like Blue Bloods.)
The Largest Drawback With The Blue Bloods Friday Thought: Too Many Potentialities
To be able to make this work, another exhibits must be moved elsewhere or scrapped.
I’m petty sufficient to be okay with that. CBS handled Blue Bloods like one thing that wanted to be rushed into the trash when it was one among its prime exhibits, in any case.
In addition to, that’s not the most important drawback with this concept. The reality is, there are such a lot of Blue Bloods spinoff potentialities that one night time isn’t sufficient.
We’d like a present from Erin’s viewpoint in regards to the instances she tries, one about Joe Hill, and perhaps even one about Henry’s second act — him discovering objective and staying related to the cops as a senior citizen who New York Metropolis desires to write down off as feeble and frail.
Overlook Blue Bloods Friday. We’d like a Blue Bloods channel that exhibits nothing however spinoffs all week lengthy and reruns of the unique on the weekends.
Over to you, Blue Bloods fanatics.
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All 14 seasons of Blue Bloods at the moment stream on Paramount+. Boston Blue will air on CBS someday within the 2026-2027 TV season.
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