Family Reunion

Blue Bloods

SEASON PREMIERE

Friday, Dec. 4, 10/9c, CBS

It’s been seven months since we shared Sunday dinner with the close-knit Reagans on Blue Bloods, CBS’s long-running hit. The May 1 meal turned out to be a very special occasion: Officer Joe Hill (Will Hochman), the newly discovered grandson of NYPD police commissioner Frank Reagan (Tom Selleck), won the honor of sitting at the family table. “It was really a special room to find myself in,” recalls Hochman, who now recurs on the drama, of shooting that scene. “It was quite the departure from the most recent thing I’d done, which was a two-person show on Broadway!”

During the lengthy hiatus, lots of won’t ignore the issues that affect the police force. Stressing that this “show about a family of white cops” was “never politically driven,” executive producer Kevin Wade explains, “In the season going forward, we try to provide the points of view of the people who are charged with protecting the people who sometimes charge them with stepping over boundaries in that protection. Those are both true and fair stories to tell.”