Blue Bloods is an American police procedural television series created by Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess. It premiered on September 24, 2010, on CBS.[1] The series centers on the Reagans, a family of police officers in New York City. Frank Reagan (Tom Selleck) is the police commissioner with three grown children working in law enforcement: the oldest, Danny (Donnie Wahlberg), a pragmatic detective; Erin (Bridget Moynahan), an assistant district attorney who prosecutes many of the offenders Danny apprehends; and Jamie (Will Estes), a Harvard Law School graduate and a patrol cop in the NYPD. Frank's second son, Joseph, an NYPD detective, was killed in the line of duty while investigating a group of dirty cops nicknamed "The Blue Templar" 15 months prior to the start of the series.
As of November 8, 2024,[update] 291 episodes of Blue Bloods have aired, currently in its fourteenth season.