Donny Wahlberg’s Boston Blue Expands the Blue Bloods Universe on M-Net This February
Highly-rated Blue Bloods ‘universe expansion’ series, Boston Blue, starring Donnie Wahlberg, Sonequa Martin-Green, Ernie Hudson, Maggie Lawson, Gloria Reuben, Marcus Scribner and Mika Amonsen comes to M-Net on Tuesday, 10 February at 19:00.
Danny Reagan (Wahlberg, who also executive produces) joins Boston PD from NYPD and partners with Detective Lena Silver (Martin-Green), the oldest daughter of a Boston law enforcement family that is essentially city royalty – including Boston district attorney Mae Silver (Reuben), police superintendent Sarah Silver (Lawson), rookie cop Jonah Silver (Scribner)and renowned Baptist pastor Reverend Edwin Peters (Hudson).
As Reagan settles into his new city, he also hopes to reconnect with his younger son, Sean (Amonsen), who previously moved to the city to become the fifth generation of Reagans to don police blues. Danny’s move turns out to be heavily motivated by rushing to Sean’s side after he’s hospitalised after being critically injured in a fire, and finding himself fitting into the rhythm of the city easily. In the hard-hitting season premiere, Reagan teams up with Boston detective Lena Silver to investigate a deadly fire at a tech company.
A woman from next door informed the author that nobody lived at the residence where she thought her daughter was playing, but the bottom stopped falling out of her world when the neighbour told her the family had moved two streets over, and she’d be happy to give Mara their new address. “Five minutes later, I had my daughter by the hand and was joking with the mother about turning up at the wrong house. I didn’t, of course, tell her I’d briefly worried she’d abducted my child. That’s not the kind of thing you say to someone you’ve met twice at a coffee morning,” E! News reports.
Snook – fresh from a run on stage in West End and Broadway production of The Picture of Dorian Gray in which she portrayed all 26 characters herself, winning the Laurence Olivier Award and the Tony Award for ‘Best Actress in a Play’ – told The Hollywood Reporter that Succession had been life-changing and she found how different Marissa was from Shiv, very appealing.
“Shiv is internally cold and stiff and presented. Marissa, there’s a warmth. And so much of it came from costuming – we’ve got knits and cozy jumpers and we’re trying to find a way to keep that warmth alive, even though she’s going through the hellscape of having her child go missing,” she said.
She also executive produced the show and was delighted that it was filmed in her home country of Australia.
“Shaping a culture on set, that was really nice. To be able to take more of a hand in [things],” she said, as well as championing an eco-friendly set, too. “Being in Australia we were able to run the set in a particular way that was much more environmentally friendly,” she said. “We had reusable coffee cups. We had reusable cutlery and plates. I’m a very strong advocate for the environment and what we can do to help reduce waste. We did a lot of things on set, catalysed by [my] being a producer, that I’m really proud of. We had electric vehicles. We had hydrogenated vegetable oil running our unit-based trucks, which is just incredible.”
The third season of Taylor Sheridan’s Tulsa King and season 19 of The Block also return to M-Net in February.
The Block returns with hosts Scott Cam and Shelley Craft, site foremen Keith Schleiger and Dan Reilly and judges Shaynna Blaze and Darren Palmer, all returning from the previous season, with Marty Fox stepping in as partial guest judge for Neale Whitaker. Season 18 contestant Tom Calleja joins this season as the main Hipages plumber who will also judge each room for ‘Best on Block‘.
In Season 3 of Tulsa King, as Dwight’s (Sylvester Stallone) empire expands, so do his enemies and the risks to his crew. Now, he faces his most dangerous adversaries in Tulsa yet: the Dunmires, a powerful old-money family that doesn’t play by old-world rules, forcing Dwight to fight for everything he’s built and protect his family. Jeremiah Dunmire, the patriarch of the family, will be portrayed by Robert Patrick, and his son Cole will be played by Beau Knapp. Samuel L. Jackson appears this season as Russell Lee Washington Jr., an old prison buddy of Dwight’s who is sent to Tulsa to eliminate him.
Boston Blue premieres on 10 February at 7pm on M-Net (DStv Channel 101), and also on DStv Stream and Catch Up.
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