Star Trek: Discovery‘s Sonequa Martin-Inexperienced will star alongside Donnie Wahlberg in Boston Blue, CBS’ upcoming spinoff of the long-running Blue Bloods collection.
The collection is ready to debut this fall and can observe Detective Danny Reagan (Wahlberg) as he leaves New York Metropolis and his household to take a place with the Boston Police Division. He shall be partnered with Detective Lena Silver (Martin-Inexperienced), the eldest daughter of a outstanding legislation enforcement household.
“I’m gonna should get a extremely good Boston accent, simply so I can throw it out at occasions,” Martin-Inexperienced advised reporters at a CBS press occasion. “We love the Reagans. Now we have all cherished the Reagans for therefore lengthy. Being Detective Lena Silver, who’s coming from a outstanding legislation enforcement household, you’ll love the Silvers too. I’m tremendous excited for this partnership, and to be again within the CBS household.“
Wahlberg added, “I’m extremely grateful for the years on Blue Bloods, and extremely grateful to have the ability to preserve the the normal Blue Bloods alive and transfer it ahead into a brand new value with new associates and new conditions. We’re actually actually engaged on this universe in a method that I believe the Blue Bloods viewers are gonna be very completely happy, very excited, and a complete new world of viewers are gonna have the ability to uncover us, too.“
Blue Bloods followers can in all probability count on some acquainted faces to indicate up, as Wahlberg stated, “There’ll be connective tissue to the previous household. However we’re additionally going to get to find a new household and keep on the custom of telling their tales and nonetheless telling the Reagan tales.“
The unique collection was one in every of CBS’s most-watched dramas, and lots of solid members didn’t need it to finish. Tom Selleck, who starred in Blue Bloods as Frank Reagan, the New York Police Division Police Commissioner, stated that everybody concerned needed to return for extra. “I can’t work out why they didn’t begin streaming it, do 10 episodes a yr,” he stated. “However I’m not the boss. Everyone needed to come back again. And I believe with this solid, it might have been a present for the viewers. I don’t make these choices. I’m ready to rejoice and commemorate this present, however I’m nonetheless getting used to it.” Possibly he’ll make an look in Boston Blue.