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This image released by CBS shows, from left, Sonequa Martin-Green, Bridget Moynahan, and Donnie Wahlberg in a scene from “Boston Blue.” (John Medland\/CBS via AP)<\/p>\n
NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Donnie Wahlberg is finally getting his dream of shooting a TV series in his beloved hometown of Boston. There\u2019s just one catch: He\u2019s playing a New Yorker.<\/p>\n
The die-hard Red Sox fan is transplanting his Danny Reagan character from the Big Apple-based procedural \u201cBlue Bloods\u201d to a new CBS spinoff, \u201cBoston Blue,\u201d stepping purposefully into the New York-Boston rivalry.<\/p>\n
\u201cI loved New York for 14 years working there. I loved it so much. But I would never root for any of the New York teams,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019ve never stopped being a Boston fan. Still die hard, still loyal to the end.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wahlberg has to hide his love of the Sox as Danny, a hard-charging NYPD detective who finds himself rushing north to Boston when family tragedy strikes, in essence portraying a fish-out-of-water in his real-life old stomping grounds. The series launches Friday.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo be able to carry on the character of Danny Reagan is a tremendously exciting opportunity with a ton of responsibility and pressure,\u201d says the actor and New Kids on the Block member.<\/p>\n
New blood<\/p>\n
That pressure comes from continuing the legacy of the Tom Selleck-led \u201cBlue Bloods,\u201d which ran for 14 seasons until 2024. And there\u2019s pressure in depicting Boston right, too.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we don\u2019t get the city right, if we don\u2019t do certain things right, if we don\u2019t get the Reagan family right, if we don\u2019t carry on certain traditions of the Reagans and part of that legacy, then it\u2019s easy to goof it up, right?\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m from Boston. I saw \u2018The Departed,\u2019 and if I heard one more bad accent in that movie, I was going to walk out of the movie theater. So I know that responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n
In \u201cBoston Blue,\u201d Wahlberg\u2019s Danny befriends an extended law enforcement family similar to the Reagans. He teams up with a local detective played by Sonequa Martin-Green, whose mother is the district attorney, her sister is the police superintendent and her brother is a beat cop.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe can see in some ways himself through this family and in some ways a way to approach things a little differently,\u201d says Wahlberg. \u201cHe\u2019s going to be who he is, but I do think it\u2019s also an opportunity for him to grow and change.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brandon Sonnier, who created the show with his writing partner Brandon Margolis, was a fan of \u201cBlue Bloods\u201d since its first episode and jumped at the chance to continue its legacy.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love a good procedural. I love good family drama. When you get a family drama that is dressed up like a procedural, I\u2019m in,\u201d Sonnier says.<\/p>\n
Beantown versus Brooklyn<\/p>\n
The cast also includes Ernie Hudson as a Baptist minister and patriarch of the local cop family, Gloria Reuben as his daughter the DA, Marcus Scribner as her son and Maggie Lawson as the police superintendent. The pilot also co-stars \u201cBlue Bloods’\u201d Bridget Moynahan, visiting as Danny\u2019s on-screen sister.<\/p>\n
In one scene, Wahlberg is invited over to the Boston multi-generational, multifaith, multiracial family for dinner, where, of course, they discuss the latest case. \u201cWe\u2019re talking shop at the table. It really is starting to feel like home,\u201d Danny says.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was such a universal, unifying element of the original series. It wasn\u2019t a far leap to imagine another family around a table and welcoming in visitors,\u201d says Margolis.<\/p>\n
That table will be where the family and Danny thrash out issues of the week, like the use of racial profiling software or how to be a good boss, with different members weighing in.<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes the alliance is over gender lines, sometimes the alliance is over racial lines, sometimes it\u2019s over generational lines,\u201d says Sonnier, who used his own diverse family as a model. \u201cThere\u2019s so any different points of view and points of connection for all of the people that we have brought to the table that the conversations are incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n
At the heart of the show is the pairing of Wahlberg with Martin-Green, two strong-willed detectives with family members outranking them. She calls him \u201cBrooklyn;\u201d he calls her \u201cBeantown.\u201d She teases him: \u201cPretty far from New York, aren\u2019t you?\u201d He later tells her after a clue appears, \u201cTrust me. I\u2019ve done this once or twice before.\u201d<\/p>\n
A closeted Red Sox fan<\/p>\n
In addition to carrying on the \u201cBlue Bloods\u201d legacy and depicting Boson on prime time, Wahlberg says another reason to do the show was \u201ca way to continue other elements of \u2018Blue Bloods\u2019 that are really important \u2014 family, faith, tradition and law enforcement families.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThose families are in every city, in every state, and come from every walk of life, every background. Telling those stories is important,\u201d he says. \u201cWith \u2018Blue Bloods\u2019 going away, I didn\u2019t think that should be the end of those stories being told.\u201d<\/p>\n
The pilot shows Danny racing through Boston in three separate foot chases and in the second episode he goes to Fenway Park, home of the Red Sox. But he\u2019s there as a Mets fan, which delights Margolis, who is also a Mets fan.<\/p>\n
\u201cDonnie may be the unofficial mayor of Boston but Danny is a New Yorker and he has been for a long time and he\u2019s so committed to that character that it\u2019s so much fun watching him live that conflict that is New York-Boston,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
Wahlberg doesn\u2019t think his New Yorker character will ever fully switch allegiances, but at least soften his stance on Boston. \u201cI think he can come to see the beauty of Boston that really you can only see by being there.\u201d<\/p>\n
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