{"id":91574,"date":"2025-03-01T00:54:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T00:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/01\/why-boston-blue-should-be-the-beginning-of-blue-bloods-friday\/"},"modified":"2025-03-01T00:54:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T00:54:45","slug":"why-boston-blue-should-be-the-beginning-of-blue-bloods-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/01\/why-boston-blue-should-be-the-beginning-of-blue-bloods-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Boston Blue Should Be The Beginning of Blue Bloods Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"


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CBS has FBI Tuesday, so why not Blue Bloods Friday?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s annoying that franchises take up an entire night of television \u2014 FBIs on Tuesdays on CBS and One Chicago on Wednesdays on NBC.<\/p>\n

Still, if any show deserves a night to itself, it\u2019s Blue Bloods<\/a> and any of its expansions. After insisting on canceling the original at the height of its popularity, the least CBS can do is give us THREE spinoffs.<\/p>\n

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Blue Bloods SHOULD Have Introduced A Spinoff On The Lineup Before It Went Off The Air<\/h2>\n

CBS screwed up by not even thinking about spinoffs until after Blue Bloods started its final season.<\/p>\n

Honestly, I don\u2019t know that Blue Bloods\u2019 cancellati<\/a>on will ever make sense to me. But if a spinoff had been waiting in the wings, it would have softened the blow.<\/p>\n

(They also should have marketed the final eight episodes as a shortened Blue Bloods season 15 instead of calling them Blue Bloods Season 14<\/a> leftovers that only got onto the fall schedule because of the writers\u2019 strike, but that\u2019s beside the point.)<\/p>\n

That might not have been possible last season because of the writers\u2019 strike, but if CBS had begun airing a Blue Bloods spinoff alongside those final eight episodes of the original show, it would have made the loss of Blue Bloods so much easier to take.<\/p>\n

We would have had half a season to get to know the new series, and then after Blue Bloods was done, the spinoff could have slid into its spot.<\/p>\n

That would have given fans a seamless transition that didn\u2019t involve putting things in that time slot that absolutely do not appeal to Blue Bloods fanatics.<\/p>\n

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Sadly, CBS didn\u2019t do that.<\/p>\n

Instead, they removed Blue Bloods from the schedule and stuck S.W.A.T<\/a> in its place, as if the reason Blue Bloods was so popular was that it was a police procedural, so any other crime drama would do.<\/p>\n

CBS can\u2019t go back in time and fix that egregious error. But now that there\u2019s a spinoff on the table, it can start the process of fixing this by ordering two other spinoffs to accompany it.<\/p>\n

Having a Bunch of Blue Bloods Spinoffs Would Be Like Having Blue Bloods Back<\/h2>\n
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The reason Blue Bloods worked so well wasn\u2019t because it was a police drama. <\/p>\n

It was the family aspects \u2014 the one thing that modern viewers are hungry for that network TV doesn\u2019t seem to want to give them anymore.<\/p>\n

CBS felt the show was too expensive, and that\u2019s why it canceled Blue Bloods.<\/p>\n

We can\u2019t fix that at this point, but if we had a night full of spinoffs, it might help us feel like the Reagans are still in our living room every Friday night.<\/p>\n

So far, CBS has only ordered one Blue Bloods spinoff: Boston Blue<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m excited but concerned because this new show promises to pluck Danny out of the Reagan family and put him in Boston, where he\u2019ll interact with someone else\u2019s prominent cop family.<\/p>\n

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Imagine, though, if there were two other spinoffs on the same night as Boston Blue.<\/p>\n

For example, we could have:<\/p>\n