Blue Bloods: Why Do They Use Fake Silverware For Family Dinners?
By C.M. CROCKFORD
With enough repetition, certain situations become comforting tropes on long-running television shows. On the CBS cop drama “Blue Bloods,” it’s the Reagan’s Sunday dinners.
Tom Selleck, who plays Commissioner Frank Reagan, says the dinners are “the most fun to film because everyone is telling stories, laughing, sharing their points-of-view.”
The show did originally use real plates, glasses, and silverware for the dinner scenes in the early seasons, but the noises kept getting picked up by the studio mics.
Still, the cast loves being at the table together anyway because once a show, they “get to have a family dinner, which [they] all look forward to,” according to Selleck.