Tom Selleck admitted to being “pissed off” over CBS‘ resolution to finish the long-running police procedural Blue Bloods.
In a new interview with TV Insider, the star — who has portrayed NYPD police commissioner Frank Reagan throughout almost 300 episodes, 14 seasons and simply as a few years — mentioned feeling that the primetime collection has been “all the time taken as a right.”
“I’m form of pissed off. Throughout these final eight reveals [Blue Bloods will conclude with eight episodes that begin airing Oct. 18 at 10 p.m.], I haven’t wished to speak about an ending for Blue Bloods however about it nonetheless being wildly profitable,” he stated, including that the collection was a prime performer throughout final 12 months’s broadcast season when it comes to whole viewership, cracking the High 10 when one reductions the highest soccer packages. Regardless of averaging 8.1 million viewers — a feat in at the moment’s broadcast panorama — the collection is on its means out, doubtless because of the monetary burden required to maintain a long-running present going.
He continued, “I’m not going to show right into a bitter outdated man saying, ‘Get off my garden!’ I don’t imagine in holding grudges, however in the event you have been to say to the tv community, ‘Right here’s a present you may program within the worst time slot you bought, and it’ll assure you successful Friday night time for the subsequent 15 years,’ it might be virtually not possible to imagine.”
“My frustration is the present was all the time taken as a right as a result of it carried out from the get-go,” the Associates actor stated. “So how do I really feel? It’s going to take a very long time to kind all of this out. I keep in mind after the weekend [of the final episode’s shoot], I stated, ‘I’ve received to get to mattress early tonight as a result of I’ve to do my dialogue for Monday.’ Nicely, there was no Monday. It’s simply going to take some time.”
Selleck has beforehand spoken about his dislike for the community cancellation, saying again in Might that he hoped CBS would reverse the choice. “I’ll proceed to suppose that CBS will come to their senses,” the Emmy winner stated on the time. “We’re the third-highest scripted present in all of broadcast. We’re successful the night time. All of the forged desires to return again. And I can inform you this: We aren’t sliding off down a cliff. We’re doing good reveals, and nonetheless holding our place. So, I don’t know. You inform me!”
His feedback got here on the heels of a press convention led by CBS Leisure president Amy Reisenbach, who confirmed the finality of the collection. “We love this forged, we love their ardour for the present. All reveals have to return to an finish. It’s necessary to us to refresh the schedule. We’re going to finish the present come December,” she stated when reminded by reporters that forged members have known as for the present to stay on air.
Blue Bloods, which first premiered on CBS on Sept. 24, 2010, follows the members of the fictional Irish-Catholic Reagan household, who has a historical past of working in New York Metropolis regulation enforcement.
