Blue Bloods, Sky Atlantic

Meet the Reagans, New York's Number One crime-fighting dynasty

by Adam SweetingWednesday, 02 February 2011

Bridget Moynahan as Assistant DA Erin Reagan-Boyle and Donnie Wahlberg as Detective Danny Reagan

If the jewel in Sky Atlantic's crown is the award-guzzling Boardwalk Empire, great things are also expected of its new cop-opera Blue Bloods, judging by the number of trailers spattering the Sky networks. It's the Dynasty of law enforcement, chronicling the relationships and travails of the Reagan family of New York.

It took him barely 15 minutes to crack a child abduction case, via the simple expedient of flushing the prime suspect's head down a toilet

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