Blue Bloods Audience Hit a Season High With Series Finale, CBS Reports

The Reagans went out on a high note.

CBS is reporting that Friday’s Blue Bloods series finale averaged 6.7 million total viewers (according to VideoAmp Overnight data; Paramount is not contracted with Nielsen this TV season). That marks a Season 14 high for the family/cop drama, including the 10 episodes that aired February through May; a second straight week of growth (+11%); and a 3% increase over May’s mid-season finale.

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According to VideoAmp and CBS Research estimates, that final audience could grow to north of 11.4 million viewers with Live+7 playback alone.

Blue Bloods Series Finale Recap: What Was Your Favorite Moment?

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TVLine gave the Blue Bloods series ender an average grade of “A-“; read TVLine’s recap, and get the inside story on the episode’s choice of big death and why [Spoiler] wasn’t at the final Sunday dinner.

Serues front man Tom Selleck and other cast members lobbied for the show to continue, but CBS Entertainment president Amy Reisenbach believed it was time for Blue Bloods to turn in its badge.

“We love this cast, we love their passion for the show. All shows have to come to an end. It’s important to us to refresh the schedule,” Reisenbach said in May.

In June, Paramount Global co-CEO Brian Robbins said during a presentation to stockholders,“ In TV, new franchise extensions are coming for Dexter, Billions, and Blue Bloods” — quietly revealing that the long-running family/cop drama might spawn a spinoff.

It was not clear if any such offshoot would be for CBS or Paramount+. Instead, the focus has been on finding the best premise, after one pitch centered on Donnie Wahlberg’s Danny Reagan failed to “materialize,” our sister site Deadline reported.

“We don’t have anything that’s going to be in development soon, but it’s a brand, a title and a show that is beloved,” CBS Studios president David Stapf told Deadline. “We’ve got to get it right, so we’re taking our time and trying to figure it out, ‘OK, what is the next iteration of Blue Bloods?’”

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