Donnie Wahlberg on "Boston Blue" and the return of Danny Reagan

For 14 years, Donnie Wahlberg starred as Detective Danny Reagan on the CBS police procedural "Blue Bloods." The hit drama about the Reagans, the fictional first family of the New York Police Department, had a loyal following. "I was stopped on airplanes, on trains, on the street, at basketball – you name it. Wherever I was, somebody would tell me they love 'Blue Bloods,'" said Wahlberg.

Now 56, Wahlberg is sitting at a new family's dinner table, in "Boston Blue," a "Blue Bloods" spinoff set in a city the actor knows well.

Donnie Wahlberg as Detective Danny Reagan in "Boston Blue," a spinoff of the long-running series "Blue Bloods." CBS

Wahlberg grew up the eighth of nine kids in the working-class Boston neighborhood of Dorchester. "We were poor," he said. "There were nine kids, a dog