Boston Blue: Donnie Wahlberg Marks 'A New Chapter' For Blue Bloods' Danny Reagan At First Table Read
Danny Reagan's story is ready to resume.
Nearly seven months after CBS' long-running Blue Bloods aired its series finale, franchise vet Donnie Wahlberg RSVP'd for the first table read for Boston Blue, the "universe expansion" announced back in February.
Wahlberg flew into Toronto, Ontario — Boston Blue's production base — the other night, sharing on Instagram, "A new day. A new city. A new opportunity. A new adventure. The same gratitude."
The morning after, he snapped a pic from the first Boston Blue table read, where he was seated next to leading lady Sonequa Martin-Green (Star Trek: Discovery).
"A new chapter," he wrote, adding a (Boston?) blue heart emoji.
The offshoot's pilot is penned by showrunners Brandon Sonnier and Brandon Margolis, and will be directed by Anthony Hemingway (whose myriad TV credits include Major Crimes, Shameless and Starz's Power Universe).
Ordered to series on Feb. 18, Boston Blue finds Wahlberg's Detective Danny Reagan leaving New York City and his family to take a position with the Boston PD. There, he will be partnered with Martin-Green's Detective Lena Silver, the eldest daughter of a prominent law enforcement family.
The cast also includes Gloria Reuben (ER) as Mae Silver, family matriarch and Boston's District Attorney; Ernie Hudson (NBC's Quantum Leap reboot) as Lena's grandfather, Reverend Peters, a renowned pastor of a historic Baptist church in Boston; Maggie Lawson (Psych) as Boston PD Superintendent Sarah Silver, Lena's "strong-willed" and "decisive" stepsister; and Marcus Scribner (black-ish) as Jonah, Lena and Sarah's rookie cop brother.
Boston Blue will do some filming in Boston, but production is based out of Toronto, Ontario (which is in Canada).
Boston Blue will premiere this fall (exact date TBA) and air Friday nights at 10/9c — aka Blue Bloods' long-held time slot.
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