Tom Selleck says 'Blue Bloods' cast made major sacrifice to save show before cancellation

Tom Selleck addressed the “very frustrating” end to “Blue Bloods,” saying the cast had already taken a 25% salary cut to keep it on the air despite it still ranking in sixth place in broadcast shows.

“They claim 14, but it was 15. We did 15 seasons. 293 episodes,” Selleck told Ted Danson on his “Where Everybody Knows Your Name” podcast on Wednesday. “’Blue Bloods’ was a labor of love for everybody.”

He continued, “Maybe people don’t realize, but a lot of shows become miserable to work on. You get a lot of egos and ‘I’m not coming out of my dressing room ‘til he’s coming out,’ and it’s miserable. It’s absolutely miserable.”

He added that he felt “Blue Bloods” was “taken for granted because it performed from the get-go. So how do I feel? It’s going to take a long time to sort all of this out. I remember after the weekend [of the final episode’s shoot], I said, ‘I’ve got to get to bed early tonight because I have to do my dialogue for Monday.’ Well, there was no Monday. It’s just going to take a while.”

Last year, Selleck doubted that he would reprise his role on Wahlberg’s spin-off, “Boston Blue.”

“I don’t know if I would do ‘Boston Blue’ — that’s another show,” he told Hour Detroit in November. “I think it’s partly my lot in life to make sure ‘Blue Bloods’ has its place in television history, but I don’t think it’s my lot in life to keep playing Frank Reagan.”