Donnie Wahlberg as Danny Reagan in Boston Blue. "Suddenly it was like, 'Do I really wanna do a spinoff?' I didn't know," he said during a screening and Q&A on Oct. 14. "And this idea was really good.

I had my doubts about Boston Blue, but now that the premiere has aired, I’m excited. Boston Blue is not Blue Bloods 2.0, and that’s a good thing. If CBS had greenlit a carbon copy of the original show ...