Tom Selleck addressed the "very frustrating" end to "Blue Bloods," saying the cast had already taken a 25% salary cut to keep it on the air despite it still ranking in sixth place in broadcast shows."They claim 14, but it was 15.We did 15 seasons.
293 episodes," Selleck told Ted Danson on his "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" podcast on Wednesday."’Blue Bloods’ was a labor of love for everybody."He continued, "Maybe people don't realize, but a lot of shows become miserable to work on.
You get a lot of egos and ‘I'm not coming out of my dressing room ‘til he's coming out,’ and it's miserable.It's absolutely miserable."TED DANSON WAS SHOCKED WOMEN VIEWED HIM AS A SEX SYMBOL DURING EARLY ‘CHEERS’ DAYSTom Selleck poses with "Blue Bloods" castmates Bridget Moynahan and Donnie Wahlberg in 2014.
(GC Images)But he said "Blue Bloods" was never like that.Knowing that his character was the patriarch of the family on the show, he decided to "set an example.""Either way, everybody got it," he continued, saying that in the last year of the show, "at our last family dinner, everybody wanted to come back.We'd already taken a 25% cut in salary.
We'd already done all sorts of things to keep the show going.But the show was, it was very frustrating 'cause ‘Blue Bloods’ was out of the top 100 shows on broadcast television, ‘Blue Bloods’ was number six in our 15th year."ROSEANNE BARR HASN’T SPOKEN TO TV SISTER LAURIE METCALF SINCE SHOW’S CANCELLATIONThe 81-year-old actor reiterated that "Nobody wanted to leave.
Everybody was gonna stay on.That's hard to get.
It may be some kind of record to have the same cast intact for that length of time."The cast might have made different decisions if it wasn’t a family, "but, you know, you couldn't very well replace Jamie [Will Estes] or Danny [Donnie Wahlberg] or anybody with another actor."LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSTom Selleck is seen filming "Blue Bloods" in 2011 (WireImage)Tw...