{"id":22945,"date":"2026-07-31T08:59:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T03:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=22945"},"modified":"2026-07-31T08:59:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T03:59:23","slug":"tom-selleck-says-blue-bloods-cast-took-25-pay-cut-to-keep-show-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=22945","title":{"rendered":"Tom Selleck Says &#8216;Blue Bloods&#8217; Cast Took 25% Pay Cut To Keep Show Going"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNearly two years after the Reagans had their last Sunday dinner on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/blue-bloods\/\" id=\"auto-tag_blue-bloods\" data-tag=\"blue-bloods\">Blue Bloods<\/a><\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/tom-selleck\/\" id=\"auto-tag_tom-selleck\" data-tag=\"tom-selleck\">Tom Selleck<\/a> is still frustrated over the show\u2019s cancellation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Golden Globe winner recently noted that the cast took a 25% pay cut in attempt to keep the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/cbs\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cbs\" data-tag=\"cbs\">CBS<\/a> procedural going past its 14-season run, which lasted from 2010 to 2024, before it was succeeded by the Donnie Wahlberg-led spin-off <em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/boston-blue\/\" id=\"auto-tag_boston-blue\" data-tag=\"boston-blue\">Boston Blue<\/a><\/em>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201c<em>Blue Bloods<\/em> was a labor of love\u2026 I think for everybody,\u201d he said on the <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/tom-selleck-live-in-santa-barbara\/id1745204141?i=1000778784172\">Where Everybody Knows Your Name<\/a><\/em> podcast. \u201cThe real truth to that is in the last year of [<em>Blue Bloods<\/em>], at our last family dinner, everybody wanted to come back. We\u2019d already taken a 25 percent cut in salary. We\u2019d already done all sorts of things to keep the show going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSelleck continued, \u201cIt was very frustrating because\u2026 out of the top 100 shows on broadcast television, <em>Blue Bloods<\/em> was number six in our fifteenth year. Nobody wanted to leave. Everybody was gonna stay on. That\u2019s hard to get. It may be some kind of record to have the same cast intact for that length of time. Usually if it wasn\u2019t a family, it would be different, but you know, you couldn\u2019t very well replace Jamie [played by Will Estes] or Danny [Wahlberg] or anybody with another actor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHaving previously starred in shows like <em>Magnum, P.I.<\/em>, <em>Friends<\/em> and <em>Las Vegas<\/em>, Selleck raved about his experience starring as patriarch, Commissioner Frank Reagan, on the Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess cop family drama.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cMaybe people don\u2019t realize, but a lot of shows become miserable to work on. You get a lot of egos and \u2018I\u2019m not coming out of my dressing room until he\u2019s coming out\u2019\u2026 and it\u2019s miserable,\u201d explained Selleck. \u201c<em>Blue Bloods<\/em> was never that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFollowing <em>Blue Bloods<\/em>\u2018 2024 finale, Wahlberg reprised his role as Det. 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