In the last 25 years, CBS has developed an unprecedented arsenal of network shows, with many that have been on the air for longer than its viewers have been alive. One CBS series that was around for years is Blue Bloods, the hit series starring Tom Selleck and Donnie Wahlberg. CBS released the first season of Blue Bloods all the way back in 2010, and it wasn’t until 2024 that the show finally went off the air after 14 years and 14 seasons. This is much longer than many other shows in the modern streaming era are on the air, but Blue Bloods is one of those shows from a different era. Still, that doesn’t mean fans were okay with the cancellation, and many began pushing for CBS and Paramount to bring the show back in the form of a new reboot.
It didn’t take long for CBS to deliver on this, either. Last year in October, CBS released the first season of Boston Blue, the new spin-off series starring Donnie Wahlberg as Danny Reagan now that he’s moved from New York to Boston to work with Lena Silver (played by Sonequa Martin-Green), the oldest daughter of a notable Boston law enforcement family. The second season of Boston Blue is now in full swing, with new episodes airing every Friday, and CBS just teased a massive crossover coming in a future episode. This afternoon, Paramount released the first two images from Boston Blue Season 2, Episode 6, “Bloodlines,” which will be released on November 13. Marg Helenberger, best known for her long-time role as Catherine Willows in the CSI universe, will star in the new episode as Gwen Wilver, Sarah’s biological mother.
Collider Exclusive · 8 Questions · 2 Minutes Which Iconic Detective Should Solve Your Case? Columbo · Benoit Blanc · Jessica Fletcher · Marlowe
Answer eight quick questions and we will tell you who should be assigned to your murder. Four of the most famous detectives ever put on screen, and four completely different ways of getting somebody to admit what they did.
🕵Columbo(Columbo)
🧣Benoit Blanc(Knives Out)
🖨Jessica Fletcher(Murder, She Wrote)
🚬Philip Marlowe(The Big Sleep)
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What do people assume about you when they meet you? Pick the one that sounds most like you.
02
Pick a coat. No wrong answers here.
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How do you get information out of people? One answer only.
04
How would your friends describe you? Be honest.
05
Pick a drink. Pick the closest answer.
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Where do you do your best thinking? Pick the closest answer.
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What is your car like? Think about the one on your drive.
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What makes you good at reading people? Last one. This is the one that decides it.
The Case Is Assigned Your Detective Is…
A great detective is really just a personality with a method attached,
which is why we keep remaking the same four of them. Here is yours, what it says about you, and the
case for them being the best in the business.
Peter Falk · Columbo · 1968 to 2003
Columbo
You let people think you are not a threat and then you simply
never go away. Columbo is the only major detective show that tells you who did it in the
first ten minutes, because the pleasure was never the puzzle, it was watching a rich man
slowly realise he is in trouble.
You are underestimated constantly, and you have stopped minding because it keeps
working.
The show invented the inverted detective format for television and nobody has bettered
it since.
Peter Falk won four Emmys for the part and played him across five decades.
Your flaw is that one more question is rarely one more question.
Daniel Craig · Knives Out · 2019 to now
Benoit Blanc
You are the most interesting person in the room and you know
exactly how to use it. Rian Johnson built Blanc as a gentleman detective who is also an
outsider everywhere he goes, which lets him be charming at people who would never otherwise
talk to him.
You read a room in seconds and you are not above performing a little to speed things up.
Rian Johnson was nominated for the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Knives Out in
2020.
Wake Up Dead Man arrived on Netflix in December, making three Blanc films in six years.
Your risk is enjoying the performance so much that people stop taking the point
seriously.
Angela Lansbury · Murder, She Wrote · 1984 to 1996
Jessica Fletcher
Everybody tells you everything, and you have never once asked
them to. Jessica Fletcher is a crime novelist from a small town in Maine who is so warm and
so obviously trustworthy that suspects confess to her essentially as a social courtesy.
You are the person friends call first, and you have a frankly alarming amount of
information about everybody.
Angela Lansbury was nominated for the Emmy twelve times for this role and never won
once.
The show ran twelve seasons, and Jamie Lee Curtis is now bringing the character back.
Your flaw is that being told everything is only a gift if you know what to do with it.
Raymond Chandler · The Big Sleep · 1939
Philip Marlowe
You expect to be lied to and you are almost never disappointed.
Chandler wrote Marlowe as a man with a rigid private code in a city that has none, which is
why he takes the case, solves it, gets nothing out of it and takes the next one.
You are the most cynical person your friends know and the one they would call at four in
the morning.
Bogart played him in The Big Sleep in 1946 and the plot is famously impossible to
follow, which matters not at all.
Elliott Gould, Robert Mitchum and Liam Neeson have all taken the part, and every version
says something about its decade.
Your weakness is a code so strict that it mostly punishes the person holding it.
What Is ‘Blue Bloods’ Season 2, Episode 6 About?
Boston Blue Season 2, Episode 6, “Bloodlines,” was written by Estevan and directed by Monica Raymund. In the new episodes, Danny’s anger causes him to slip back into his old ways when Boston P.D. discovers a baby abandoned in a food delivery robot. Meanwhile, Sarah faces a difficult decision when her estranged mother, Gwen (played by Marg Helenberger), comes back into her life. Sean and Jonah will also be searching for a fellow officer who went missing in the new episode.
Check out new episodes of Blue Bloods every week on CBS and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage on the future of the show.
Release Date
October 17, 2025
Directors
Alex Zakrzewski, Anthony Hemingway, Antonio Negret, Randall Zisk, Jackeline Tejada
