{"id":23516,"date":"2026-07-31T20:51:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T15:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=23516"},"modified":"2026-07-31T20:51:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T15:51:55","slug":"tom-selleck-calls-blue-bloods-cancellation-very-frustrating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=23516","title":{"rendered":"Tom Selleck Calls &#8216;Blue Bloods&#8217; Cancellation &#8220;Very Frustrating&#8221;"},"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<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/tom-selleck\/\" id=\"auto-tag_tom-selleck_1\" data-tag=\"tom-selleck\">Tom Selleck<\/a> says he shaved everything but his iconic mustache to keep <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/blue-bloods\/\" id=\"auto-tag_blue-bloods_1\" data-tag=\"blue-bloods\">Blue Bloods<\/a><\/em> going, but after 14 (or 15, depending who you ask) seasons and a <a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/blue-bloods-renewed-season-14-stars-producers-pay-cut-1235361682\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/blue-bloods-renewed-season-14-stars-producers-pay-cut-1235361682\/\">25 percent producer- and cast-wide pay cut<\/a>, CBS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/blue-bloods-end-season-14-cbs-1235666644\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/blue-bloods-end-season-14-cbs-1235666644\/\">pulled the plug anyway<\/a>. And that, Selleck says, was \u201cvery frustrating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201c<em>Blue Bloods<\/em> was a labor of love,\u201d Selleck told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/ted-danson\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ted-danson_1\" data-tag=\"ted-danson\">Ted Danson<\/a> on the <a rel=\"nofollow\" data-id=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/tom-selleck-live-in-santa-barbara\/id1745204141?i=1000778784172\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/tom-selleck-live-in-santa-barbara\/id1745204141?i=1000778784172\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Where Everybody Knows Your Name<\/em> SiriusXM podcast<\/a>. \u201cThe real truth to that is in the last year\u2026 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 \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cIt was very frustrating because <em>Blue Bloods<\/em> was \u2014 out of the top 100 shows on broadcast television \u2014 number six in our fifteenth year,\u201d Selleck continued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tA check of the Nielsen sheets shows Selleck (mostly) knows his numbers. The final season of <em>Blue Bloods<\/em> was actually seventh in viewers on network television in the 2024-25 season, though that number drops when elongating the measurement window and adding additional platforms. (Old people, which was <em>Blue Bloods<\/em>\u2018 audience, don\u2019t do much delayed viewing, let alone streaming.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cNobody 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,\u201d Selleck said. \u201cUsually\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/blue-bloods-tv-review-30074\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/blue-bloods-tv-review-30074\/\">if it wasn\u2019t a family<\/a>, it would be different, but you know, you couldn\u2019t very well replace Jamie (Will Estes) or Danny (Donnie Wahlberg) or anybody with another actor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThough <em>Blue Bloods<\/em> ended in 2024, the franchise continued with <em>Boston Blue<\/em> on CBS. This time, Det. Danny Reagan (Wahlberg) is the head of the household.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tDanson is \u201csometimes\u201d joined on the podcast by co-host Woody Harrelson \u2014 the full, official title is <em>Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)<\/em> \u2014 which makes the titular <em>Cheers<\/em> reference a bit stronger. Harrelson was not a part of this live episode, which took place at the Granada Theatre in Santa Barbara, California. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tSelleck is making the rounds to promote his memoir, <em>You Never Know<\/em>. He and Selleck also used to time to reminisce on making <em>Three Men and a Baby<\/em> together, and discuss Selleck\u2019s star-making <em>Magnum, P.I.<\/em> role \u2014 the one he nearly didn\u2019t take.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Selleck says he shaved everything but his iconic mustache to keep Blue Bloods going, but after 14 (or 15, depending who you ask) seasons and a 25 percent producer- and cast-wide pay cut, CBS pulled the plug anyway. And that, Selleck says, was \u201cvery frustrating.\u201d \u201cBlue Bloods was a labor of love,\u201d Selleck told&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/118495_0485bc-H-2026.jpg?w=1296&h=730&crop=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pics-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}