The Blue Bloods collection finale noticed a file variety of viewers as followers tuned in to say goodbye to the Reagan household.
The series finale, led by Tom Selleck, earned a season-high 6.68 million viewers in Stay+Similar Day scores, per VideoAmp information. Moreover, this was up 15 % over the season-to-date in Stay+Similar Day viewership common.
The Friday, 10 p.m., time slot was not the favorable spot within the CBS lineup, however the famous person forged that includes Tom, 79, Donnie Wahlberg, Bridget Moynahan, Will Estes, Vanessa Ray and Len Cariou, propelled the collection to the highest of the scores.
“Think about if you happen to informed CBS after we began in 2010, ‘Right here’s a present you possibly can program in your worst time slot. You don’t must market it, and it’ll win the night time for 15 years.’ That’s fairly neat!” Tom informed Variety in a December 12 interview.
The Blue Bloods series finale aired on December 13, with all the Reagans working to resolve the identical case. Ultimately, all of them joined collectively for the ultimate household dinner, the place Eddie and Jamie introduced they had been anticipating their first baby collectively. Erin and Jack additionally revealed they had been going to get married once more.
“We’d typically considered Eddie having a toddler,” showrunner Kevin Wade informed TV Insider. “It appeared like a pure development from the chemistry that they needed to their wedding ceremony. It was at all times within the playing cards that they’d suppose, ‘Let’s begin a household earlier than it’s too late.’ However we went 12 months to 12 months for the final variety of years not realizing if we had been coming again. As a result of we’d at all times discover out near the final minute, we didn’t wish to paint ourselves right into a nook that we both couldn’t dramatize or couldn’t get out of.”
“So we’d kind of paint the horizon in a bit bit after which filling within the particulars appeared like the best way to do it — particularly for Jamie and Eddie and for Erin and Jack, and positively for Danny and Baez,” he added.
Although the episode ended on a cheerful be aware, it actually stings to see such a profitable present go off the air.
“We labored exhausting to characterize the individuals of New York and the NYPD, and we labored exhausting to maintain the present going and to maintain it compelling for 14 years,” Donnie, 55, informed Fox News on December 14. “And it was rather a lot to say goodbye. It would typically, from the skin, appear bizarre, like, ‘Oh, all these actors are crying that their present’s over.’ However we did turn into a household, and we did turn into a household with the crew. And simply to say goodbye to them was emotional.”
Followers are so used to seeing Tom and his castmates on TV each Friday. It’s going to be an enormous adjustment, however the Magnum, P.I. alum assured followers that he has no plans to stop acting any time soon.
“I’m not retiring. I‘ve obtained a mortgage; I obtained a ranch that I like and I like the work. Look, I’m not precisely a spring hen within the enterprise,” he stated, acknowledging that “the cellphone can cease ringing.”
“I’m nonetheless adjusting,” he stated of life after Blue Bloods. “I’d wish to suppose that any person will consider one thing totally different. A comedy could be good.”
