Before it wrapped last year, Blue Bloods star Donnie Wahlberg didn’t want his time on the popular cop drama to end.

Over the course of 14 seasons, Wahlberg, 56, played NYPD detective Danny Reagan on the series that followed multiple generations of a family working in law enforcement.

Despite good ratings during its Friday night timeslot, CBS pulled the plug on the Tom Selleck-led cop drama. Finances, COVID, and a prolonged actors and writers strike all played a part in hastening its end.

Speaking to Postmedia on a recent Monday morning, Wahlberg says he tried everything to keep the show on the air. He even says he would have worked for free.

But he admits that he always teased the writers on that long-running New York City-based procedural that if it were ever to come to a close, he

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