“Nobody was more disappointed than me,” Donnie Wahlberg said on “Obsessed: The Podcast.”
14 years into its run, CBS ’s hit police proceduralwas canceled, leaving its fans and actors devastated—none more than its co-lead, Donnie Wahlberg.host Kevin Fallon. “Nobody shed more tears than me. Nobody was shocked more than me, and nobody fought harder to keep the show on the air than me.
”, how an overseas war interrupted his Super Bowl halftime show with New Kids on the Block, and how he helped give Jennifer Lopez her big break. After his TV show"Blue Bloods" was cancelled in 2024, actor Donnie Wahlberg returned in the CBS spinoff"Boston Blue."Despite consistently ranking among the top 10 highest-rated TV shows for most of its 14-season run, CBS cancelled the show in 2024, citing the high cost of retaining its cast and crew. The show’s father-son duo, Tom Selleck and Wahlberg, were among the many actors and producers who took a 25% pay cut for its final season. “I stopped being able to work with friends, and our crew lost their jobs,” Wahlberg said, who played Detective Danny Reagan. “I know all of us in the cast felt a personal responsibility for that. When our crew lost their jobs, I felt like I let them down personally.” Despite its consistently high viewership, CBS cancelled"Blue Bloods" in 2024, citing the high payment of its cast and crew.claimed the oldest median age of any primetime series in 2024. The older-than-average audience became the show’s calling card. Wahlberg thinks this was the key to their success. “Most television shows are looking for that 18–45 demographic of viewers. And here, this show kind of turned that upside down.“Ironically, that’s why it defied the odds and lasted so long,” he added. In"Boston Blue," Wahlberg reprises his"Blue Bloods" role as Detective Danny Reagan, now transferred to the Boston Police Department.Now, the former New Kid on the Block is reprising his detective role in a new spinoff of his beloved show. In“I want to say this the right way. If I didn’t care for,“ Wahlberg told Fallon. ”This was the only way that Danny Reagan could continue being on television, and therefore, any other Reagan, by extension, can stay on television. This was the only way."
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