Cross-media recommendations across film, TV, games, books & music — picked by taste.
Blue Bloods follows the Reagan family — an Irish-American Catholic dynasty in New York City where nearly every member works in law enforcement. Frank Reagan is the NYPD Commissioner who manages both the police department and the family's competing loyalties and moral debates. The show ran for fourteen seasons on CBS, pairing procedural crime plots with the friction that comes when institutional duty and personal conscience share a dinner table.
Blue Bloods is an American police procedural drama television series that aired on CBS from September 24, 2010, to December 13, 2024, across 14 seasons and 293 episodes. Its main characters are the fictional Reagan family, an Irish-American Catholic family in New York City with a history of work in law enforcement. Blue Bloods stars Tom Selleck as New York City Police Commissioner Frank Reagan; other main cast members include Donnie Wahlberg, Bridget Moynahan, Will Estes and Len Cariou for all 14 seasons, plus Amy Carlson, Sami Gayle, as well as Marisa Ramirez and Vanessa Ray.
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Film
Pride and Glory
Another NYPD family dynasty cracks when an investigation forces a son to confront his own kin over police corruption.
Film
The Blue Knight
A veteran LAPD cop approaching retirement refuses to ease up on crime in his final days on the beat.
Film
My Blue Heaven
An FBI agent assigned to protect a mob informant finds the job harder than expected in this crime comedy.
Film
Mob Cops
A retired NYPD detective's memoir exposes family ties to organized crime, pitting dirty cops against honest ones.
Film
Line of Duty
A disgraced cop goes rogue to redeem himself when the police chief's young daughter is abducted.
Film
The Devil's Own
A New York cop unknowingly shelters an IRA assassin, blurring the line between family trust and deadly consequence.
Book
Beyond the Law
When the Bayport police chief is accused of bribery, the Hardy Boys investigate a decades-old cover-up.
Book
Final Cut
Frank and Joe go undercover at a movie studio after a screenwriter is murdered on the lot.
Book
Blood Money
Gangland killings and a dead crime boss's lingering reach drive an investigation into organized crime's lasting grip.
Book
The job
A twenty-year NYPD veteran recounts cases that test the line between procedure and street-level reality.
Book
Acting Up
Frank and Joe travel abroad to investigate sabotage on a film set in unfamiliar territory.
Book
Maximum Challenge
The Hardy Boys enter a high-stakes TV game show that turns dangerous when crime enters the competition.
Series
Boston Blue
Danny Reagan joins the Boston PD and is paired with a detective from another law-enforcement family dynasty.
Series
NYPD Blue
A New York precinct drama built around ensemble plots and the internal and external pressures officers face daily.
Series
Rookie Blue
Young cops prove themselves in high-stakes careers where the smallest mistake can have deadly consequences.
Series
Bluey
A sergeant running an unconventional unit solves cases other departments can't, driven by his own methods.
Series
Blue Lights
Rookie officers navigate the unique dangers of frontline policing in Belfast, a city with fraught pressures.
Series
Shades of Blue
A detective embedded with corrupt colleagues faces the moral squeeze between loyalty and conscience.
If you want more NYPD family drama, Boston Blue is the direct spinoff following Danny Reagan. Shades of Blue and NYPD Blue offer grittier takes on New York policing with strong ensemble casts.
Pride and Glory is the closest match — a multi-generational NYPD family torn apart by a corruption scandal. Mob Cops covers similar ground with a retired detective's exposé of dirty cops tied to organized crime.
The show holds the family dinner table and the precinct floor in the same frame, making every moral debate feel personal. It offers procedural comfort alongside genuine stakes about loyalty, legacy, and what it costs to do the right thing.