It’s dinner time for the Reagan clan, and the extended family of CBS’ Blue Bloods is crammed around the table, sharing the news that their parish priest has been sent off to Bolivia after allegations of sexual advances, in an episode airing tonight (10 ET/PT).
It’s the only time the show’s entire main cast, led by Tom Selleck, Donnie Wahlberg, Will Estes and Bridget Moynahan, comes together in its Brooklyn studio.
“Luckily we don’t have to eat anything crazy like cheesecake or Chinese food,” says Moynahan (who plays daughter Erin, an assistant DA) of Bloods‘ signature scene, which caps every episode and gives writers a chance to show the family debating the issues raised by the cases.
“I think the audience responds to these things more than any part of the show, really. It’s a place where you get everybody’s point of view.”
It could be the tight-knit family, or Selleck’s star appeal, or the unusual blending of a family drama with a sturdy police procedural, but Bloods is this season’s most-watched new series. It chugs away on Friday nights, with an average of 12.4 million viewers, and is considered a lock for a second season. …
Bloods connects its cases to the multi-generational family, led by police commissioner Frank (Selleck), a stoic police commissioner who’s sometimes at odds with a mayor who appointed him when his last pick didn’t work out.
“He was a way of getting the mayor off the hook for choosing a corrupt man,” Selleck says of his character. “His biggest flaw is he cares too much; he has a hyperactive sense of responsibility.”
His dad Henry (Len Cariou), a retired commissioner, is a grandfatherly fixture at those dinners, even though Cariou, 71, is actually just five years older than Selleck. Erin (Moynahan), a divorced single mom, is the by-the-book legal compass. But Danny, a hotheaded cop, is an Iraq War vet who “may bend the rules because he knows he’s going to get away with it more,” Wahlberg says.
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