EXCLUSIVE: The upcoming 14th season of CBS‘ venerable cop family drama Blue Bloods will be its last. The popular series starring Tom Selleck is getting an extended farewell with a two-part final season which will consist of 18 episodes, Deadline has learned.
The first 10 will air this coming midseason, premiering on CBS Feb. 16 and streaming live on Paramount+; the remaining 8 will run in fall 2024.
Coming off a double Hollywood strike that reduced the sizes of the 2023-24 scripted seasons to 10-13 episodes each — with a number of CBS shows only doing 10 — the network is giving two of its top series that are coming to an end, Blue Bloods and Young Sheldon, a proper sendoff with expanded final seasons.
As Deadline reported last week, the Big Bang Theory prequel’s seventh and final season will be comprised of 14 episodes. Blue Bloods, about multiple generations of the Reagan family workin in New York law enforcement, is leaving while still on top.
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