CBS has FBI Tuesday, so why not Blue Bloods Friday?
It’s annoying that franchises take up a complete evening 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 top 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 fascinated with spinoffs till after Blue Bloods began its last season.
Actually, 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 will have softened the blow.
(Additionally they ought to have marketed the ultimate eight episodes as a shortened Blue Bloods season 15 as an alternative of calling them Blue Bloods Season 14 leftovers that solely acquired onto the autumn schedule due to the writers’ strike, however that’s inappropriate.)
That may not have been attainable 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 will have made the lack of Blue Bloods a lot simpler to take.
We might have had half a season to get to know the brand new sequence, after which after Blue Bloods was carried out, the spinoff may have slid into its spot.
That may have given followers a seamless transition that didn’t contain placing issues in that point slot that completely don’t enchantment to Blue Bloods fanatics.
Sadly, CBS didn’t try this.
As a substitute, they eliminated Blue Bloods from the schedule and caught S.W.A.T as a substitute, as if the explanation Blue Bloods was so widespread 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 may well 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 features — the one factor that trendy viewers are hungry for that community TV doesn’t appear to wish 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 filled with spinoffs, it would assist us really feel just like the Reagans are nonetheless in our front room each Friday evening.
Thus far, 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 distinguished cop household.
Think about, although, if there have been two different spinoffs on the identical evening as Boston Blue.
For instance, we may 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 concept.)
Having all of these exhibits on one evening 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 appears like Blue Bloods.)
The Greatest Drawback With The Blue Bloods Friday Concept: Too Many Prospects
So as 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 certainly one of its high exhibits, in spite of everything.
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 evening isn’t sufficient.
We want a present from Erin’s viewpoint concerning the circumstances she tries, one about Joe Hill, and perhaps even one about Henry’s second act — him discovering goal and staying related to the cops as a senior citizen who New York Metropolis desires to jot down off as feeble and frail.
Neglect Blue Bloods Friday. We want 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 presently stream on Paramount+. Boston Blue will air on CBS someday within the 2026-2027 TV season.
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