Whereas it was introduced that Blue Bloods’ 14th season could be its final, star Tom Selleck is hoping the present may need extra time to inform its story.
On Tuesday, the actor sat down with ET’s Rachel Smith to promote his new memoir, You By no means Know, and he opened up about why he feels Blue Bloods is “a 15-season present.”
“It is actual easy — the best way every thing got here down, we have been gonna do an 18-show 14th season. Then, with the strike, we did a 10-show season, identical to everyone else,” shared Selleck, who stars as Commissioner Frank Reagan on the CBS cop drama.
“However then we stored capturing, and we’re capturing proper now,” Selleck, 79, mentioned, explaining that the 14th season acquired cut up into two elements, with the second half of season 14 not airing till the autumn.
“I am not simply gonna sit round doing a countdown to [the new episodes]. I am gonna keep optimistic as a result of everyone on the present needs to do it,” Selleck mentioned. “I am simply staying optimistic.”
When Selleck’s iconic TV present Magnum P.I. got here to an finish in 1988, the finale drew in an enormous viewers and the collection “went out as an enormous success,” Selleck famous. He needs Blue Bloods to get an analogous alternative to exit on high.
“Blue Bloods proper now’s fairly wildly profitable,” Selleck mentioned. “I am speaking about that to not brag, however [to say that] the individuals on our present — if and when it ends — deserve this type of five-star entry on their résumé.”
“The rationale I speak about it this a lot is actually so the general public does not suppose we’re simply form of winding down and the present is drained,” Selleck mentioned. “We’re nearly as good as ever — and really profitable.”
Whereas followers wait for brand new episodes of Blue Bloods to air in October, Selleck has penned a memoir about his life in present enterprise and his journey to success.
“I attempted to be sincere, not hype something up,” Selleck defined of his new ebook. “I wasn’t gonna do a ebook about who I dated or getting even or politics — it is in regards to the work… [and my] very lengthy, kinda unintended profession.”
As Selleck acknowledged, he by no means thought he’d be an actor when he was youthful. All through faculty, he thought he’d be an athlete.
“I had fantasies about being knowledgeable baseball participant, however by no means about appearing. And I by no means did a play, by no means studied or something,” Selleck shared. “I feel I used to be simply very lucky to develop up within the metropolis the place the enterprise is.”
Selleck’s memoir, You By no means Know, is out there now.
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