Donnie Wahlberg steps into the bitter New York-Boston divide with new series, 'Boston Blue'

NEW YORK (AP) — Donnie Wahlberg is finally getting his dream of shooting a TV series in his beloved hometown of Boston. There's just one catch: He's playing a New Yorker.

The die-hard Red Sox fan is transplanting his Danny Reagan character from the Big Apple-based procedural “Blue Bloods” to a new CBS spinoff, “Boston Blue,” stepping purposefully into the New York-Boston rivalry.