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Friday dramas return: high-stakes and mid-siege

When CBS’ Friday dramas finally return, they’ll find tough times.
There’s a big blaze in “Fire Country” (there usually is) at 9 p.m., Feb. 27, a big case in “Blue Bloods” at 10. And a siege in “Sheriff Country,” at 8.
Yes, a siege, sort of like the old days of catapults and fireballs and such. In this case, the sheriff’s headquarters is being overwhelmed.
“It was a very carefully choreographed, staged area,” Morena Baccarin (shown here) told the Television Critics Association. “We had to … tell a very consistent story of being under siege, running out of ammo and having no radio connectivity to the outside world.” Read more…

Her simple life is Earthbound and zombie-free

Even when she’s chasing killers and saving lives, Sonequa Martin-Green can almost relax.
It’s refreshing, she said, “not having to save the actual universe all the time.”
For five seasons of “The Walking Dead,” she fought zombies; for all five seasons of “Star Trek: Discovery,” she was the main character, facing crises in new worlds. Now her new duty — as a “Boston Blue” police detective (shown here)– might feel like a breeze.
The show — debuting at 10 p.m. Friday (Oct. 17) on CBS — is a spin-off of “Blue Bloods.” For 14 seasons, Danny Reagan (Donnie Wahlberg, left) played a tough New York cop. As that show was ending, producers hatched the new plan: He goes to Boston, where his son is a rookie cop; at times, they link. Read more…