The End of Jesse Stone — and the Man Who Still Can’t Let Go

After nearly ten years away from Paradise, Massachusetts, Tom Selleck is pulling Jesse Stone’s badge out of the drawer again. With Blue Bloods wrapped, the 79-year-old actor says he’s ready to return to the small-town police chief who’s haunted him—and his fans—for years.

“It wouldn’t be the final one,” Selleck told TV Insider. “Everybody loves it.” Still, there’s a sense this next case might be the last.

How Jesse Stone Changed Everything

For years, Selleck was the guy from Magnum, P.I.—mustache, grin, sun. Then Jesse Stone came along: nine TV movies from 2005 to 2015 about a cop who drank too much and talked too little. Selleck co-wrote most of them, shaping a man worn down by regret but still chasing decency. The stories moved slow, with long silences that said more than speeches ever could.

Ten Years Gone

The last movie, Lost in Paradise, aired in 2015. Fans waited for another, but Blue Bloods consumed his time. Now that it’s over, there’s finally space to pick up where Jesse left off.

The Last Watch

The new film, Jesse Stone: The Last Watch, is in development. It follows an older Jesse—sharper in some ways, lonelier in others. Selleck plans to co-write again, keeping the tone spare and honest. Streaming platforms like Paramount+ and Amazon Prime Video are circling, looking at it as a limited movie event.

Selleck calls it “unfinished business.” He’s never played Jesse as a nostalgia act; the man’s too damaged for that. What draws him back is the question of what happens when the world stops needing you, but you still feel responsible for it.

One More Morning in Paradise

Whether The Last Watch ends the story or restarts it, the image holds: Tom Selleck in the gray light of Paradise, coffee in hand, waiting for the next call.

Sources: TV Insider, CBS News, Variety