After 14 seasons, it’s time to bid farewell to the Reagan family.
“Blue Bloods” aired its first episode on September 2010, following a New York City family that worked in law enforcement. The star-studded cast includes Tom Selleck, Donnie Wahlberg, Bridget Moynahan, Will Estes and Len Cariou as the tight-knit family.
The CBS police procedural kept devoted viewers coming back year after year to watch the Reagans navigate personal obstacles and the criminal justice system while still making it to their weekly family dinners.
The show’s 14th and final season will conclude with the last of 18 episodes on Friday, Dec. 13.
The series finale, titled “End of Tour,” will bring the series total to 293 episodes.
Audiences will follow the Reagans one last time “as they race to stop deadly mayhem in the city when the gangs of New York unite together to demand amnesty for the release of their imprisoned members and those awaiting trial,” per the press release. “Miami Vice” and “Battlestar Galactica” star Edward James Olmos will be a guest star.
Keep scrolling to find out when and where the last episode of “Blue Bloods” is airing.
When is the ‘Blue Bloods’ series finale?
The final episode of “Blue Bloods” will air Friday, Dec. 13, at 10 p.m. ET/PT.
How to watch the final episode of ‘Blue Bloods’
The long-standing series finale will air on CBS and will also stream on Paramount+.
Customers who subscribe to Paramount+ with the Showtime add on will have access to the finale live and on demand.
Those who have the Paramount+ Essential tier will be able to stream the finale on demand the next day.
Other options include:
Stream free with DIRECTV free trial.
Stream free with Hulu + Live TV free trial.
Stream free with Fubo free trial.
What has the cast said about the show ending?
CBS announced their decision to cancel the long-running procedural in November 2023. Selleck, 79, who played patriarch Frank Reagan, later admitted to TV Insider that he was frustrated with the news.
“I’m not going to turn into a bitter old guy saying, ‘Get off my lawn!’ I don’t believe in holding grudges. But if you were to say to the television network, ‘Here’s a show you can program in the worst time slot you got, and it is going to guarantee you winning Friday night for the next 15 years,’ it would be almost impossible to believe.”
“After 15 years, it’s hard. It’s hard to let go because coming to work was a joy,” he added.
Despite the end of “Blue Bloods,” Selleck told People in April that he is grateful for the experience and all his blessings throughout his decades-long career.
“I’ve had a very good life, a very lucky life. I don’t know if it’s what I figured I’d be doing, but it’s with a lot of gratitude,” Selleck gushed.
Meanwhile, Wahlberg, 55, who portrays Detective Danny Reagan, shed light onto filming the show’s final dinner scene.
“I think when we finished the final take of the final dinner scene, everyone just kind of sat there in silence,” he told The Post. “Secretly, we hoped someone would walk in and say ‘it was a joke, there will be 14 more seasons!’”
And when Selleck broke the silence and started speaking, “we all started crying,” Wahlberg recalled.
The New Kids on the Block member also revealed that the “Jesse Stone” vet sparked the waterworks for the rest of the cast from one sweet gesture in particular.
“He said a poem. He kind of did that from time to time. He would have these old poems,” Wahlberg explained before sharing Selleck read the poem “The Man in the Arena,” originally written by Theodore Roosevelt.
The “Band of Brothers” actor said that it became “tradition,” for Selleck to read the poem “every now and again.”
So “of course, he did it” after filming the final “Blue Bloods” scene.
In that moment, “a lot of life passed by me while he was speaking,” he confessed.
“I used to watch [Selleck in ‘Magnum P.I’] as a kid with my parents, and my parents are gone. And that little kid is now here with this guy making this show. It’s a lot to process in the moment.”
And, of course, Wahlberg wanted to keep the show going as did the rest of the cast and crew.
“It hurt to not be able to tell them we’re going to keep going. I can’t tell you how many people every day and even guest actors would say, ‘my parents love it, and I watch it, and they’re so excited I’m going to be on the show.’”
CBS ending the show, “was sad and difficult in that regard,” Wahlberg reiterated.
But, “I take that away from the show as the thing that makes me feel most gratitude. We were part of something that meant a lot to a lot of people.”
