Another “Blue Bloods” TV show is in the works — but this one is about vampires, not cops
No, this will not have the Vampire Selleck.
Wait, what is Tom Selleck doing?!
Expect to hear comments like this when viewers who want to watch CBS' hit police procedural Blue Bloods accidentally flip their TV to watch, um, Blue Bloods, and vice versa. EW has confirmed that Paramount-owned company Awesomeness is developing a series based on author Melissa de la Cruz's YA books about vampires. Deadline was the first to report the news.
EW has reached out to de la Cruz.
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On her official website, the author describes the nine-book series this way: "Within New York City's most elite families, there lurks a secret society of celebrated Americans whose ancestors sailed on the Mayflower. They are the powerful and the wealthy — and in fact, they are not human. They are the Blue Bloods, an ancient group of vampires."
The story centers around Schuyler Van Alen, a misfit at her prestigious New York City private school who begins craving raw meat and seeing blue veins on her arms when she turns 15. Soon, she becomes enthralled in mysterious happenings, like a popular boy suddenly becoming interested in her and the death of a classmate.
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The vampire series is obviously different from the cop show, which also stars Donnie Wahlberg and Bridget Moynahan, that first aired in 2010. It follows an Irish Catholic family in Boston with a tradition of fighting crime.
The double names might not be too much of a problem, though, because the Selleck drama is on its way out, at least when it comes to new episodes. CBS announced in November that this would be its last season, despite high ratings. It was the No. 3 drama on broadcast television, with 9.54 million viewers, during the 2022-23 season, and it was the most-watched one on Friday nights.
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Still, Selleck has called for the show to continue, and Paramount co-CEO Brian Robbins has said that Blue Bloods is one of the series for which the studio is planning "franchise extensions."
Still, the end of an era is coming, with Wahlberg even having documented his final day of filming.
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"Last day of Blue Bloods," the New Kids on the Block member wrote on social media. "Not sure I have the words to describe how I feel about today, or the last 14 years on this special Blue Bloods journey, but I do know how incredibly thankful I am for every moment of it."
The final episodes of that series will premiere Oct. 18 on CBS.
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