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The hotly-anticipated Blue Bloodsoffshoot adds a fan-favorite Star Trek: Discovery star to its leading cast.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, Star Trek: Discovery star Sonequa Martin-Green has officially signed on to co-star in the upcoming Blue Bloods offshootalongside series mainstay Donnie Wahlberg. Martin-Green is set to portray Lena Peters, a Boston police detective who is partnered up with Wahlberg's Detective Danny Reagan following the latter's move from New York City. The pair immediately find a common connection as, like Danny, Lena is revealed to be the oldest child in a family that has held prominence in the city's law enforcement community for generations.

Boston Blue is set to feature a new creative team led by Brandon Sonnier and Brandon Margolis as co-showrunners, along with Jerry Bruckheimer Television's Jerry Bruckheimer and KristieAnne Reed, each of whom are executive producing with Wahlberg. This marks a departure from Blue Bloods, which was created by...

Blue Bloods fans haven't seen the last of Donnie Wahlberg's Detective Danny Reagan. The actor will be back as the fan-favorite character for the upcoming offshoot Boston Blue.

Wahlberg recently shared the first promo for Boston Blue, featuring archive footage of the actor as Danny Reagan from Blue Bloods, on Instagram. The promo confirms that Boston Blue will be part of CBS' Fall 2025 schedule as opposed to being saved as a midseason replacement. Wahlberg also teased what Blue Bloods fans can expect from the Boston-set offshoot, writing in the post's caption, "So excited to carry on the tradition, to share so many surprises, to answer some unanswered questions and to welcome all of you — to [Boston Blue]! The next chapter in the [Blue Bloods] legacy begins. I can’t wait. See you CBS fall!"

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Spoiler Alert: This story contains details of tonight’s Blue Bloods series finale and Season 14 ender ‘End of Tour.’

“I’m handing you the keys,” a wounded New York Mayor Peter Chase (Dylan Walsh) says to NYPD Commissioner Frank Reagan (Tom Selleck) in the Blue Bloods series finale tonight as murderous gangs rage on the streets killing police, judges, and anyone else who gets in their way. “Get us out of this,” the often cunning politician tells the top cop he has so often clashed with over the long running CBS drama’s run.

“Tom Selleck’s character, Frank Reagan, had spent 14 years arguing with his boss, and there was an opportunity there for him to finally serve his boss in a way that also was true to his character,” explains Blue Bloods longtime showrunner Kevin Wade of the importance of the scene in “End of Tour,” the 293rd episode...

From the moment it premiered Sept. 24, 2010, and throughout its 14 seasons on CBS, “Blue Bloods” distinguished itself as more family drama than police procedural. Its series finale, which aired Friday, stayed true to that concept by honing in on a heightened case for the cop family involving a notorious gang leader joining forces with other gangs to orchestrate violent hits around the city in a play for amnesty, rather than a grandiose send-off or flashback-driven series reflection.

Eddie Janko-Reagan’’s (Vanessa Ray) partner Luis Badillo (Ian Quinlan) was killed in an ambush, making the case personal for the entire Reagan clan, including her husband Jamie’s nephew Joe. Even from a hospital bed, Eddie refused to back down from the case. Because the Mayor was also shot, Frank (Tom Selleck) was even more tied to the case professionally. And of course, there is a personal tie for Danny (Donnie Wahlberg) because there almost always is.

Spoiler Alert: This story contains details of tonight’s Blue Bloods series finale and Season 14 ender ‘End of Tour.

“Our dinners are never about the food,” proclaims NYPD Commissioner Frank Reagan (Tom Selleck) near the end of Blue Bloods‘ final episode. “You know, we’ve got a lot to be thankful for, and looking around this table, I gotta say, I couldn’t be more proud, or grateful,” the patriarch adds before the family bows their heads to pray like the good Catholics they are.

In the end, as it was when the Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess created CBS series debuted on September 24, 2010, Blue Bloods remains all about family – the fictional multi-generational cop family of the Reagans, the fraternity of the police, plus the District Attorney’s office, City Hall, and New York City itself. With a guest appearance by Edward James Olmos as an incarcerated ganglord Lorenzo Batista,...

Since the turn of the 2010s, one CBS procedural has shone brighter than most others, with millions of fans tuning in for fourteen years and fourteen seasons to catch the policing antics of the Reagan family in Blue Bloods. Created by Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, Blue Bloods' blend of neat character drama and intense, action-packed set pieces made it one of the hottest procedurals on television, even earning a Primetime Emmy nomination in 2013.

It’s been over a decade since Tom Selleck embodied the role of the New York City Police Commissioner Frank Reagan in the CBS crime drama Blue Bloods. However, the long-running show might not have existed today had it not been for the surprising twist of fate involving the hit HBO drama The Sopranos.

Tom Selleck in Blue Bloods | Credit: CBS

Known for redefining the landscape of television drama, The Sopranos opened the door for Blue Bloods, after it parted ways with its key writers, Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, who would later go on to create the CBS police procedural drama.

How The Sopranos Lead to the Creation of Tom Selleck’s Blue Bloods?

Created by Mitchell Burgess and Robin Green, the police procedural drama Blue Bloods follows the Reagan family, a multi-generational lineage of New York City law enforcement, balancing their professional duties with personal lives.

Blue Bloods | Credit: CBS

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Blue Bloods will be ending when the final episode of Season 14 airs in December. However, Abigail Hawk, who has a recurring role in the series as Detective Abigail Bake, hopes that the police procedural will continue with a spinoff.

"There was talk of a spin-off happening," Hawk told Hello Magazine. "But if it did happen, so immediately after our series ends, it would have to be not involving the Reagan's or the NYPD at all. It would have to be set in LA, or we follow a different family." She also talked about the existing show continuing for a 15th season. "If you had asked me this question during the summer, before these episodes were about to air, my answer would have been, 'there's a pinprick of hope'.

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Blue Bloods star Bridget Moynahan recalls her emotional last day of filming on season 14. Premiering on CBS in 2010, the hit police procedural is created by Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess with a story that revolves around the Reagan family of police officers in New York. Starring Tom Selleck, Donnie Wahlberg, Will Estes, Len Cariou, and Andrew Terraciano, Blue Bloods season 14, which premiered earlier this year and will return in October, is now set to bring the show to an end.

In a recent interview with People, Moynahan, who plays Erin Reagan, Frank's (Selleck) daughter, recalls her final week of filming on Blue Bloods season 14, revealing that "every single day was emotional". The actor recalls one moment she shared with Selleck, in particular, when her on-screen father came to set to watch her and Wahlberg film their last scene even though he had already wrapped. While there's evidently a lot of sadness about the show's ending,...

Blue Bloods has been entertaining the world over the course of fourteen seasons, but it's time for the procedural drama created by Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess to say goodbye. New images from the last installment of the series have been released by CBS. While it might be hard for audiences to let go of characters such as Detective Danny Reagan (Donnie Wahlberg) and Assistant District Attorney Erin Reagan (Bridget Moynahan), viewers can be assured that the show's conclusion will be one to remember.

We hate to see them go. Blue Bloods’ looming departure on CBS this December after 14 hit seasons will leave millions of faithful fans with not only a hole in their hearts but also in their Friday night TV schedule. The seeds of the family-first cop drama were planted when The Sopranos writers Mitchell Burgess and Robin Green decided to deviate from the late-2000s trend of shows with dark antiheroes. “We wanted to go for the positive, the heroic,” Green noted in 2010, when Blue Bloods premiered. Joining with veteran network exec and producer Leonard Goldberg (Starsky & Hutch), they found their heroes in the fictional Reagans, a tight-knit, multigenerational Irish Catholic clan of NYPD cops and an assistant district attorney who investigate and prosecute crimes, rather than commit them. The police procedural planned to have action-packed, edge-of-your-seat moments but would really home in on the family drama and interwoven relationships. CBS...

Blue Bloods showrunner Kevin Wade explains why fans shouldn't be expecting the series' core cast to make any major career moves in the finale.

Per TVLine, Wade responded to the question of whether any of Blue Bloods' main cast members could expect a promotion in the upcoming series finale. "It seemed to me to be kind of a fool's errand to promise something that you, by definition, wouldn't be delivering on," Wade explained. "Putting somebody in a new job, but you'll never see them again? No, we just had them do the jobs they've been doing all these years and doing them, hopefully, as well as they ever did them."

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Linda Reagan was a series regular on Blue Bloods and the wife of Danny Regan until she was killed off after Season 7. But did Linda need to die?

Created by Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess,...

M*A*S*H, Cheers, Mary Tyler Moore, and The Sopranos all influenced the forthcoming series finale of Blue Bloods. Showrunner/executive producer Kevin Wade recently revealed what the series finales for all the aforementioned shows have in common and how he set out to make sure Blue Bloods follows that formula.

Speaking with TVLine for its Fall Preview Q&a, Wade shared that he had begun thinking about how to wrap up the long-running CBS procedural around five years ago. "I mean, if youre on for 14 years, in at least four or five of those years you started out a season going, 'This could be the last one,' just as a numbers game," the showrunner explained. "So, Ive thought about it a lot, along with my colleagues. [Longtime executive producer] Siobhan Byrne OConnor and I would talk about it a lot over the seasons."

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In 2010, just five episodes into Blue Bloods’ run, Kevin Wade interviewed with Leonard Goldberg, Mitchell Burgess and Robin Green, cocreators of the promising family police drama, about a writing job. “The meeting centered around developing Tom Selleck’s character,” Wade recalls. “I offered that New York’s police commissioner is more of a CEO to 35,000 cops than a cop himself, and that his conflicts, dilemmas, strengths and vulnerabilities should reflect that. They responded positively, and I started the next day. Although any crime-story chops I might have were wholly unproven, I was drawn to the challenge.” Those challenges included “two requests written in stone” by Goldberg, Wade explains: “Each episode must wrap up the crimes of the week by that show’s end, and no matter how deep the conflicts between family members, they would have dinner together on Sunday at Frank and Henry Reagan’s home.” As a result,...

Though he’s made films for theatrical release and the occasional series for a different network or streamer, prolific documentarian Alex Gibney and the HBO nonfiction brand have become borderline synonymous over the past decade. It was almost inevitable that Gibney would, at some point, take the serpent’s tail into his mouth and make a documentary about HBO.

Gibney’s first stab at HBOuroboros is Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos, a documentary that is, per its title, completely self-explanatory. Simultaneously tracing the life of David Chase and the run of his game-changing mob dramedy, the two-parter is a must-watch for fans of The Sopranos — even television critics for whom many of its juiciest details are already established lore.

Especially in its 85-minute second part, which has to cover most of the Sopranos’ stretch after its first season, Wise Guys isn’t always as “definitive” as it wants to be,...

The Rookie is definitely one of the most fun and thrilling procedural series of recent times. Created by Alexi Hawley, the ABC stars the always wonderful Nathan Fillion in the lead role of John Nolan, a middle-aged small-town man who decides to become the oldest rookie in the LAPD after a life-altering incident. The Rookie recently concluded its sixth season and has been renewed for a seventh season. So, if you love the compelling characters, grounded action, and thrilling stories in The Rookie here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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The Rookie: Feds is a police procedural action crime-drama series created by Alex Hawley and Terence Paul Winter. The ABC series serves as spin-off to The Rookie and it follows Simone Clark, a former school counselor as she becomes the oldest rookie in the FBI Academy at the...

The lore of “The Sopranos” is dissected in buzzy two-part documentary “Wise Guy: David Chase and ‘The Sopranos.'”

The feature, which debuted at Tribeca 2024, is directed by Academy Award winner Alex Gibney, who once again partners with HBO after helming “The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley” and “Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief.” Per the official synopsis, the documentary “delves deep into the psyche of renowned ‘Sopranos’ creator and writer, David Chase, to illuminate his life and career while offering a unique window into his unparalleled work on the iconic program.”

Of course, as “Sopranos” fans know, the series debuted 25 years ago in 1999.

For “Wise Guy,” director Gibney puts series creator Chase in the psychiatrist’s chair to analyze the origins of the iconic show that drew upon his own upbringing in north New Jersey. Lorraine Bracco, Edie Falco, Michael Imperioli, Drea de Matteo, and...

Blue Bloods may be ending, but CBS isn't quite ready to call it quits on the beloved brand. CBS Studios President David Stapf recently teased a possible extension in the franchise that would keep the focus on one or more members of the Reagan family.

Speaking with Deadline, CBS Studios President David Stapf confirmed that there have been discussions about extending Blue Bloods on CBS with a spinoff series. One centered around Donnie Wahlberg's Danny Reagan was reportedly pitched but did not end up getting the greenlight. "We dont have anything thats going to be in development soon but its a brand, a title and a show that is beloved," Stapf said. "Weve got to get it right so were taking our time and trying to figure it out, okay, what is the next iteration of Blue Bloods? We have a whole season to go where we intend to...

The television series Blue Bloods is wrapping up its run. After debuting on CBS in 2010, the series will end with its current 14th season.

On Instagram, series star Vanessa Ray shared an image of herself embracing co-stars Donnie Wahlberg and Maria Ramirez. She also added the message, "Last day feels. I love them so much it hurts." Another Instagram post shared by Wahlberg included a message he wrote about his experience working on Blue Bloods. While the actor noted his difficulty in coming up with the right words to cap it off, he expressed how thankful he is for everyone involved with the series, from the cast and crew to all of the fans who'd watched over the past 14 years.

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Blue Bloods is ending after 14 seasons in late 2024, but a spinoff will reportedly continue the franchise. Production costs played a major role in CBS's cancelation of Blue Bloods and ordering a spinoff. CBS aims to freshen up its TV lineup by canceling Blue Bloods for a spinoff.

Blue Bloods is sadly coming to an end in late 2024 after 14 seasons, but CBS still plans to expand the franchise with a spinoff, which might be a bit confusing to some, given the network's decision to cancel the original show. The police procedural series, created by Mitchell Burgess and Robin Green, debuted on September 24, 2010, and as anyone could tell from its 14-season run, the show has been a massive success for CBS. Nevertheless, CBS canceled Blue Bloods in the fall of 2023, with season 14 split into two parts and serving as the series' final outing.

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CBS' decision to cancel Blue Bloods for season 15 is more puzzling with news of a spinoff. The spinoff announcement hints at a desire to revitalize the show despite its existing success. Blue Bloods' cancellation raises concerns about network decisions prioritizing spinoffs over main shows.

Blue Bloods will seemingly live on after all, but not in the way that anyone thought or campaigned for, making the network's decision to cancel the show all the more puzzling. The CBS police procedural drama series, created by Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, premiered on September 24, 2010, and quickly became one of the highest-rated shows on the network. Its success continued over the years, but a few months prior to the Blue Bloods season 14 premiere, CBS announced that the season would be its last, canceling the series before it could reach season 15 (and hit 300 episodes).

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Magnum, P.I. was a huge hit in the 1980s, giving star Tom Selleck his big break in Hollywood. Despite enjoying his time on the show, Selleck shared in his new memoir, You Never Know, that he disliked the show's title for one specific reason.

Per TVLine, Selleck wrote in his memoir that the beloved crime drama series, created by Donald P. Bellisario and Glen A. Larson, was originally titled Magnum. At that time, the title character's full name was also different, being Harry Magnum instead of Thomas Magnum. However, over concerns that Magnum and Harry Magnum were too similar to Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry in Magnum Force, CBS and Bellisario opted to re-title the show Magnum, P.I., since Selleck's title character worked as a private investigator. Although a minor change, Selleck thought Magnum, P.I. "was a shitty title" because he knew, from his brief time in Hawaii, that "P.

Frank Reagan will not retire in the Blue Bloods series finale, according to the showrunner's comments. The show's future may not be over after season 14, with hints that key storylines will continue. Blue Bloods could potentially have a season 15 or spinoff, keeping certain plotlines open for continuation.

CBS canceled Blue Bloods ahead of its fourteenth season, but an update on how Tom Selleck's Frank Reagan's story ends indicates that the story may not be over after the series finale. The procedural drama, created by Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, follows an Irish Catholic family (the Reagans), many of whom work in law enforcement, in New York City. Blue Bloods premiered in 2010 and, as proven by its 14-season run, has been a hit show for CBS throughout most of its years on the network. However, the series is reportedly becoming too expensive, resulting in Blue Bloods' cancelation.

The second half...

Officially, Prime Video’s spy drama Mr. and Mrs. Smith is based on the 2005 film of the same name. Unofficially, however, its origins are a bit murkier. Though this 2024 streaming iteration of Mr. and Mrs. Smith starring Donald Glover and Maya Erskine shares its basic premise with the previous Brad Pitt and Angelina-starring version (a married couple who also happen to be spies), the series diverges from it in some major ways as well.

In an interview with The Today Show, Glover (who also co-created the 2024 series) even admitted to not having seen the 2005 Doug Liman-directed film when he decided to embark upon the project. Co-creator Francesca Sloane wrote in an open letter to fans that “No one would need a show that retold the same blockbuster movie. But what we set out to do was to make something wholly original.”

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The Tom Selleck-led series Blue Bloods is set to soon wrap up its run on television.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, it has been revealed that CBS is ending Blue Bloods with its upcoming fourteenth season. The final season will be split into halves, with the first batch of 10 episodes set to premiere on Feb. 16, 2024. Another batch of eight episodes will conclude the series in Fall 2024. The news comes as the series resumes production following the end of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. CBS Entertainment president Amy Reisenbach and CBS Studios president David Stapf have also confirmed the announcement in a statement.

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“Blue Bloods will forever be a beloved part of CBS’ legacy. It ruled Friday nights with unprecedented dominance since its premiere and established itself as a pillar of our winning lineup with an exceptionally devoted fan base,...

Blue Bloods ends after its 14th season. Blue Bloods' final 18 episodes will be split into two parts, with the first 10 premiering in February, and the last eight episodes dropping in the fall of 2024. Tom Selleck and CBS executives praise Blue Bloods as a beloved show that dominated Friday nights, thanks to the talented cast and compelling storytelling.

Join the Reagans around the dinner table for one last helping of television history. After nearly 300 episodes, the immensely popular CBS police procedural Blue Bloods is coming to an end following its 14th season. And actor Tom Selleck has served as the family patriarch, Frank Reagan, every step of the way since the show debuted in September of 2010. Selleck addressed the series’ conclusion (per Deadline):

“For the past 13 years, it has been an honor and a privilege to work on a show that not only celebrates the men and women who protect...

Rolling Stone was founded in 1967 in San Francisco by a music critic and his 21-year-old protégé, a Berkeley dropout who borrowed money from his future in-laws to get it off the ground. For decades, Rolling Stone gripped tight to the beliefs and cultural blinders of that boomer beginning. Most of its rocker heroes from that Haight-Ashbury autumn were white and male, and those were the kind of people who stayed center stage at Rolling Stone. The misogyny and racism of that founding era lingered longer.

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"The Sopranos" features some incredible episodes. It was more cinematic than a gangster show was expected to be in the '90s and, as /Film's Shae Sennett writes, creator David Chase was aware of its potential as a national phenomenon. It was a television show about a Mafia man, of course, but borne of Chase's experiences in therapy, this mob boss would learn everything about himself and change little — a concept that would eventually dominate the wave of prestige TV to come.

For its six-season run from 1999 to 2007, the HBO crime series mostly stayed in northern New Jersey, where the Dimeo crime family would operate with Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) at the top. But some of its most celebrated episodes — Christopher goes to Hollywood, Carmela and Rosalie go to Paris — broke free of the show's own boundaries and gave a chance for the traveler-protagonist to add some depth to their character arc.

With credits like "Kolchak: The Night Stalker," "The Rockford Files," and "Northern Exposure," decades of television work gave "The Sopranos" creator and showrunner David Chase a strong sense of what would and wouldn't work for network TV. Tag-teaming with a strong stable of writers, the HBO drama surrounding a New Jersey-based Italian-American mob family took on the shape of an epic text that would appeal to the masses while also commanding critical respect.

In the writers' room, the nuances of New Jersey mob life were meticulously explored in ways that both nodded to and departed from their gangster movie forebears. Writers for the show would include Terrence Winter (who would go on to helm "Boardwalk Empire"), cast members like Michael Imperioli, and "Northern Exposure" writers Robin Green and Mitch Burgess, the latter of whom understood what Chase was going for -- a crucial part of staying in the writers' room after its fifth episode.

Like the Emmys’ Best Drama Directing category, there have not been a lot of individual female winners in Best Drama Writing. Only five solo women have ever won before — slightly better than the three female drama directing champs — but just like the directing race this year, there are three chances for another woman to join the drama writing winner’s circle.

Yahlin Chang (“Home” from “The Handmaid’s Tale“), Misha Green (“Sundown” from “Lovecraft Country”) and Rebecca Sonnenshine (“What I Know” from “The Boys”) are all individually nominated this year for their scripts. There are other two female nominees, Janet Mock and Our Lady J, but they share their bid for the “Pose” series finale with co-writers Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuck and Steve Canals. The other nominees are solo dudes: Peter Morgan (“War” from “The Crown”), Jon Favreau (“Chapter 16: The Rescue” from “The Mandalorian”) and Dave Filoni (“Chapter 13: The...

“NCIS,” “Bull,” “Swat,” “Blue Bloods” and “Magnum P.I.” have all been renewed at CBS.

The network made the announcement on Thursday on Twitter. That will mean a Season 19 for “NCIS,” Season 6 for “Bull,” Season 5 for “Swat,” Season 12 for “Blue Bloods” and Season 4 for “Magnum P.I.” All four shows are produced by CBS Studios, with “Swat” being a co-production with Sony Pictures Television.

“NCIS” stars Mark Harmon, Sean Murray, Emily Wickersham, Wilmer Valderrama, Maria Bello, Brian Dietzen, and Diona Reasonover. Donald P. Bellisario created the series and executive produces along with Harmon, Frank Cardea, Steven D. Binder, Chas. Floyd Johnson, Mark Horowitz and Scott Williams. Harmon is expected to return to the show after earlier reports indicated he was considering exiting the long-running drama. CBS is also currently working on an “NCIS” spinoff set in Hawaii.

“Bull” stars “NCIS” alum Michael Weatherly as well as Freddy Rodriguez, Yara Martinez, Geneva Carr,...

Exclusive: Unforgettable alum Dylan Walsh is set for a key recurring role opposite Tom Selleck and Bridget Moynihan on the upcoming tenth season of CBS’ Blue Bloods.

Walsh will play the newly-elected Mayor of New York. A pragmatic businessman who rose up through honest ingenuity and keen instincts, he took on the office as a means to “give back” to the City where he was raised in the disappearing middle-class and from which he launched his enormously successful career. In his first story, he approaches Erin (Moynihan) with an offer to back her in a run for the Manhattan District Attorney’s office, confident in his appraisal of her as someone he can work with to deliver the promises he ran his campaign on. But the lines between “work with” and “work for” are clearly blurred in his conception, and Erin must weigh her ambitions against...

Emerald Fennell replaced Phoebe Waller-Bridge as showrunner for the second season of “Killing Eve,” and now she can do what her predecessor was unable to: become just the sixth solo woman to win the Best Drama Writing Emmy.

Fennell, who will cede showrunner duties to Suzanne Heathcote for Season 3, is nominated for penning the second episode of Season 2, “Nice and Neat.” She is the only woman nominated by herself; Kira Snyder shares her nomination with Bruce Miller for “The Handmaid’s Tale.” The other nominees are Peter Gould and Thomas Schnauz (“Better Call Saul”), David Benioff and D.B. Weiss (“Game of Thrones”), Jed Mercurio (“Bodyguard”) and Jesse Armstrong (“Succession”).

First given out at the 7th Primetime Emmy Awards in 1955, Best Drama Writing has long skewed male. It took 19 years before the category crowned its first individual female champ, Joanna Lee, for “The Waltons” in 1974. Five years later, Michele Gallery (“Lou Grant”) prevailed,...

Twenty years ago, HBO was only beginning to establish its now-sterling reputation as a provider of top quality original series that took viewers to places network programs simply couldn’t dare venture. But soon enough David Chase’s “The Sopranos” would break out as a signature series and inspire a whole new wave of antihero-led programming.

Dark, funny, bold, ambitious, quirky, addictive: the mob family drama with the repellent yet compelling New Jersey capo Tony Soprano at the center was all of those things and more. And the show ushered in a glorious new era of television — one that celebrated rich, sharply delineated characters that didn’t always say what they thought or act in their own best interests, as well as gloriously cinematic storytelling fueled by striking visuals and sweeping camerawork, and, of course, a deeply flawed protagonist that, despite despicable acts, inspired deep relatability with the audience.

“The Sopranos...

Spoiler Alert: This story contains details about tonight’s Blue Bloods Season 9 premiere on CBS.

In a bloody season opener tonight bookended by murdered headless bodies, the return of Blue Bloods also cut deeper into what really happened in the abrupt death of Amy Carlson’s character last year.

Long before Robin Green was an Emmy-winning writer and producer for The Sopranos, she was a young post-grad living in Berkeley, California. In 1971, she got a job interview with Jann Wenner, co-founder of an upstart magazine called Rolling Stone. She thought she was interviewing for a clerical position; instead, she walked out with an assignment — to write about Marvel Comics, where she had worked for Stan Lee himself — and soon became the only female writer on the Rolling Stone masthead. The next few years would include some great stories, some bad acid trips,...

Phoebe Waller-Bridges (“Killing Eve”) is the only female nominee in the Best Drama Writing Emmy field of six. And “six” will also be associated with her should she win because only five other solo women have won the category before.

Since Best Drama Writing was added at the 7th Primetime Emmys in 1955, undergoing various name changes, the category has almost exclusively been a boys’ club. It took 19 years before Joanna Lee became the first individual woman to win, prevailing for “The Waltons.” In 1979, Michele Gallery (“Lou Grant”) joined her, followed by Patricia Green (“Cagney & Lacey”) and Ann Biderman (“NYPD Blue”) in 1994. Twenty long years later, Moira Walley-Beckett ended the drought with a statuette for penning “Ozymandias,” the best episode of “Breaking Bad.”

There were female winners in between Biderman’s and Walley-Beckett’s triumphs, but they all co-wrote their winning scripts with men. Robin Green (“The Sopranos”) shared her 2001 win with Mitchell Burgess,...

Spoiler Alert: This story contains details of tonight’s Blue Bloods Season 8 finale.

Blue Bloods has long been and will continue to be one of my favorite Big 4 series and tonight’s Season 8 finale of the Tom Selleck led NYPD family drama served to confirm that opinion. In lieu of the traditional cliffhanger, the end of this season of the already renewed show brought resolution and depth at a point when most procedurals are barely doing much than hoping to go through the motions

Perhaps what worked best for me in tonight’s ‘My Aim Is True’ was how old wounds were opened up to show us new facets of already established characters like the Magnum P.I. alum’s Commissioner Frank Reagan. An arch that moved to show how deep Blue Bloods’ bench is besides its lead as the show simultaneously enlarger the multi-generational cop clan with a love for...

A version of this article originally appeared on EW.com.

The casts of two popular ’80s television series are reuniting at Atx Television Festival next year.

On Thursday, the Austin-based festival announced the cast and creator of CBS’ Designing Women will reunite for a special 30th anniversary panel. Stars Delta Burke, Annie Potts, Jean Smart, Gerald McRaney, Hal Holbrook and Douglas Barr will join creator and executive producer Linda Bloodworth-Thomason for the event. The festival is also planning retrospectives for Bloodworth-Thomason’s Evening Shade and Hearts Afire.

The cast of the quirky CBS comedy-drama Northern Exposure will also get together at Atx next year.

Welcome to the seventh installment of our summer trip through "The Sopranos" season 1. When I revisited early seasons of "The Wire," as well as the whole run of "Deadwood," I did separate versions of each review for newcomers and veterans, but over time realized that the newcomers weren't commenting much, if at all, and that it therefore made sense to simply do one review. Any significant spoilers for episodes beyond the one being reviewed will be contained in a separate section at the end of the review; so long as you avoid that, and the comments, you should be fine. Thoughts on the seventh episode, “Down Neck," coming up just as soon as the clown gets arrested, too... "My son is doomed, right?" -Tony The morning after "The Sopranos" series finale aired, David Chase reluctantly got on the phone with me to talk about everything but his intentions for the final scene.

Leslie Hope has been added to the cast of CBS’s “Blue Bloods,” TheWrap has learned. The actress will recur on the Tom Selleck-helmed police drama as a “no-holds barred” investigative reporter named Catherine Farrell. Hope is also set to reprise her role on FX’s “Tyrant,” where she plays Lea Exley. See Photos: The Faces of Pilot Season 2015 Currently on Season 5, “Blue Bloods” stars Selleck, Donnie Wahlberg, Bridget Moynahan, Will Estes, Len Cariou, Amy Carlson, Tony Terraciano and Andrew Terraciano as a family of New York City police officers. The Emmy-nominated series was created by Mitchell Burgess and Robin Green.

Exclusive: The Sopranos alums Mitchell Burgess and Robin Green are heading back to suburbia for another family show with mob elements. NBC has put in development Park Road, from Sony TV and eOne, which has received a script commitment with penalty. Based on the Danish show Lærkevej (trailer with English subtitles below), Park Road is an hourlong black comedy about three orphaned siblings forced to flee their big city life when the eldest of the three accidentally kills an Albania mobster in a drug scuffle. With the body in their trunk, they escape to Park Road, an isolated ex-urban neighborhood where no one turns out to be as benign and ordinary as they seem. Burgess and Green are writing/executive producing. The project originated from a visit eOne’s Evp Global Production Carrie Stein and Becca Tesarfreund, who oversees formats, made to Scandinavia where they met with local producers. They found Lærkevej,...

Exclusive: Kim Cattrall’s four-year quest to mount an adaptation of the 2005 British comedy series Sensitive Skin has come to fruition north of the border. Canada’s Movie Central and The Movie Network have given a six-episode order to the remake starring the Sex And The City alumna and Don McKellar (Slings & Arrows). It revolves around a woman (Cattrall) going through a mid-life crisis. Bob Martin (Slings & Arrows) is writing the adaptation, with McKellar set to direct all six episodes. Rhombus Media will produce in association with Baby Cow, the company behind the British series, and Sundance Prods. in partnership with the Canada Media Fund. Cattrall, McKellar and Martin are set to executive produce alongside Hugo Blick, creator of the original series, and Henry Normal. Blick’s series, starring Joanna Lumley, ran for two seasons on BBC Two (Watch clip below) Cattrall was originally attached to star in and executive...

Nashville, Tenn. -- Doug Dillard, an influential banjo player who helped shape rock `n' roll and introduce the nation to bluegrass music during a popular run on "The Andy Griffith Show," died Wednesday in Nashville. He was 75.

Lynne Robin Green, president of Dillard's publishing company, said he died due to a lung infection.

Dillard, a founding member of family band The Dillards out of Salem, Mo., was influential in several ways. Dillard, his brother Rodney and two band mates moved west in 1962, rather than taking the usual route to Nashville. They discovered the burgeoning folk scene in Southern California and helped inspire the country rock movement. They were among the first to attempt to modernize bluegrass music, electrifying their instruments and experimenting with rock elements.

Dillard also helped introduce bluegrass to TV viewers as a member of the unusual family band "The Darlings," who made multiple appearances on "The Andy Griffith Show...

Just 10 of the hundreds of things we miss about The Sopranos…

1. The Writing / Direction

Each Sopranos episode felt like a fifty minute movie such was the strength of visual style, narrative arcs, characterization and performances. Has another show nailed it in such cinematic fashion before or since, week in week out?

From crisp dialogue, to innovative sequences with plentiful of subtle Mise-en-scene and classic film homages, to a soundtrack at times to die to (literally in some characters cases!). Often it would all come together in single scenes to striking effect none more so than Christopher’s death at the hands of Tony.

As the show creator David Chase surrounded himself with a tour de force of directing talents (Tim Van Patten, Alan Taylor, Allen Coulter and the late John Patterson) and immense writers (Terence Winter, Matthew Weiner, Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess) whom have now gone onto stamp their...

Throughout the month of December, TV Editor Kate Kulzick and Film Editor Ricky D will review classic Christmas adaptions, posting a total of 13 each, one a day, until the 25th of December.

The catch: They will swap roles as Rick will take on reviews of classic television Christmas specials and Kate will take on classic Christmas movies. Today is day 9.

The Sopranos, “To Save Us All from Satan’s Power” (2001)

Season 3, Episode 10

Directed by Jack Bender

Teleplay by David Chase and Robin Green

Note: It’s difficult to really encapsulate the events that take place in this episode without spoiling it, since so much of it’s impact relies on the events that take place during the three seasons prior. I won’t be going into any specifics about the episode as to avoid spoiling it for anyone who hasn’t watched it. With that said, if you haven’t...

Blue Bloods executive producer Ed Zuckerman has insisted that the show's new season will not disappoint fans. Zuckerman told TV Guide that "no major changes are on the cards" for the CBS cop drama's second run. "There's a lot of continuity [from season one]," he claimed. "I kept almost all of the old writers who are a great resource. They're good writers, and they know the characters. People really know what they're doing." Zuckerman, who replaced series creators Mitchell Burgess and Robin Green, also dismissed suggestions that Blue Bloods will become more of a procedural drama. "The idea is to keep the show the same balanced show, between a case of the week and Reagan family issues (more)...

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Blue Bloods' new executive producer, Ed Zuckerman, wants to make one thing clear to viewers: He's not messing with the formula that made the sophomore CBS drama a hit in its first year.

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The veteran TV writer/producer was hired in May to replace outgoing creators Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess amid reports that CBS wanted to make the show more procedural. (Zuckerman's resume supported the theory: He served long stints on Jag and Law & Order.) However, Zuckerman insists nothing will change.

"The idea is to keep the show the same balanced show between a case of the week and the Reagan family issues and family drama," Zuckerman tells TVGuide.com....

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More fresh blood is being added to CBS' Blue Bloods as the cop/family drama is undergoing creative tweaks going into its second season. Veteran series director-producer Michael Pressman has joined the CBS TV Studios-produced series as co-executive producer/director. He directed two episodes of Blue Bloods' first season and has a long history at CBS, where he served as executive producer on Chicago Hope, The Guardian and two David E. Kelley series, Picket Fences and The Brotherhood of Poland, N.H. Another veteran, Law & Order alum Ed Zuckerman, was recently tapped as the new showrunner on Blue Bloods, succeeding the series' creators Mitchell Burgess and Robin Green, who exited at the end of last season.

Law & Order veteran Ed Zuckerman, who most recently ran ABC's legal drama The Whole Truth last season, has been tapped as the new showrunner on CBS'  Blue Bloods, which has not been officially renewed but is coming back next season. Zuckerman will succeed the series' creators Mitchell Burgess and Robin Green who have exited at the end of this season. Zuckerman's strong procedural background (he spent 14 years on Law & Order and also worked on Jag and L&O: Criminal Intent) confirms CBS' desire to take the cop/family drama in a more procedural direction next season.