The reprising the role of Danny Reagan, though he'll be ed by a largely new cast.
Deadline has confirmed the latest addition to the spinoff, confirming that Psych's Maggie Lawson is set to Boston Blue in a main cast member capacity alongside Wahlberg and the previously announced actors Sonequa Martin-Green and Ernie Hudson. Lawson, known for her role as Juliet O’Hara in the long-running crime comedy Psych, will play the Superintendent of the Boston Police Department.
What The Latest Cast Addition Means For Boston Blue
It's A Family Affair
Reprising his role as NYPD Officer Danny Reagan, Wahlberg's character takes a job with the Boston Police Department. He gets paired with Detective Lena Silver (Martin-Green), the eldest daughter of a prominent law enforcement family, and he'll work under Sarah Silver (Lawson), the Superintendent of the Boston Police Department, who is described as confident. She is also Lena's stepsister, walking the tightrope between her family and her job.
Boston Blue will air on Fridays at 10 PM ET, though an exact premiere date hasn't been announced.
The family ties are completed by Ernie Hudson's character, who plays Reverend Peters. The patriarch of the blended Silver family, Peters is the father of Mae Silver, Boston’s District Attorney, and grandfather of Detective Lena Silver, Sarah Silver (Lawson), and rookie patrol cop Isaac Silver. Some of these roles have yet to be announced, but it sets up the spinoff to have a different family focus than the original series.
Our Take On How Boston Blue Is Shaping Up
It Has The Right Stuff
The spinoff, which is produced by CBS Studios in association with Jerry Bruckheimer TV, with Brandon Sonnier and Brandon Margolis as showrunners and executive producers, will be a departure from the long-running police procedural. However, with Jerry Bruckheimer, KristieAnne Reed, and Wahlberg himself as executive producers, plus the veteran Anthony Hemingway as director, there will be a lot of progression. There is also continuity in of the story, although the family of Boston Blue has their own challenges and struggles that will set the new drama apart from what came before with the Reagan family.
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Source: Deadline
