NKOTB News: February 2025

Thursday, February 27, 2025

Joey's interview with WJCL in Savannah

Joey was interviewed by WJCL channel 22 in Savannah. Check out the video below:

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Joey's interview with Good Day Alabama

Joey was interviewed by Good Day Alabama on WBRC yesterday. He talked a bit about his upcoming tour, he sang a bit of "Shut up and Sing", and more! Here's the clip:

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Joey on the "You Made It Weird" podcast

Joey was interviewed by Pete Holmes on the "You Made It Weird" podcast! Here is the video!

Catching up with Donnie

Donnie announced that the actual table used for the Blue Bloods dinner scenes has arrived at Wahlburgers in St. Charles, IL. He is offering a chance to have dinner with him at that table! You can sign up here! People Magazine posted an article about it here.

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Donnie also posted these in his stories:

The first episode of the latest season of "Very Scary People" podcast is now available!

Donnie left a new message on the NKOTB Hotline when he was at Wahlburgers recently. Click here to listen!

Donnie was on a couple of Jenny's recent Formless Beauty Livestreams! Here's the parts with Donnie and their pups:

Click here to watch the full video.

Donnie will be featured in a new HBO Max series about the Boston Celtics called "Celtics City" which debuts on March 3. Click here for more info!

NBC10 talked about Donnie trying to get a WNBA team in Boston:

Sherri Shepherd talked about the Blue Bloods spin-off on her show:

Here are some other highlights from Donnie's recent stories:

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Joey's interview with FOX 4 in Dallas

Joey was interviewed by FOX 4 KDFW in Dallas!

Click here to watch!

Joey's interview with WDRB

Joey was interviewed by WDRB out of Louisville to talk about his upcoming solo tour and more!

Click here to watch!

Catching up with Joey

Joey left a new message on the NKOTB Hotline for Valentine's Day. Click here to listen!

Here are a couple of adorable photos of Joey and a yorkie pup:

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Getty Images has some new photos of Joey at the SiriusXM Studios on February 21, 2025, in New York City.

And here are some of him and Griffin at the Debbie Allen 25th Anniversary Gala at Debbie Allen Dance Academy on February 13, 2025, in Los Angeles, California.

Here are some highlights from Joey's stories:

And Sean Thomas shared a few photos from last week here!

Monday, February 24, 2025

Joey's interview with the Wicked Awesome 80s Show

Joey was interviewed by Heather & Amy on the Wicked Awesome 80s Show! Check out their interview below:

Sunday, February 23, 2025

Joey at the Empire State Building with KTU

Joey made an appearance at KTU’s “Flip the Switch” event on Thursday! Here is a video of them flipping the switch to the KTU colors and his interview and performance:

Here’re some photos from the event:

Thursday, February 20, 2025

Joey’s interview with 92 Pro FM

Joey was interviewed by 92 Pro FM yesterday! Check out the interview below:

Check out a highlight video here and some photos here!

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Joey’s solo tour dates announced!

Update: presale starts tomorrow at 10am local time. Here’s the link to get tickets!

Update here’s the list with the venues:

Apr. 4, 2025

White Oak Music Hall

Houston, TX

Apr. 5, 2025

The Studio @ The Factory

Dallas, TX

Apr. 7, 2025

Red Flag

St. Louis, MO

Apr. 8, 2025

Joe's Live

Rosemont, IL

Apr. 9, 2025

Crofoot Ballroom

Detroit, MI

Apr. 11, 2025

The Opera House

Toronto, ON

Apr. 12, 2025

House of Blues Restaurant & Bar

Cleveland, OH

Apr. 14, 2025

Mercury Ballroom

Louisville, KY

Apr. 15, 2025

Cannery Hall

Nashville, TN

Apr. 16, 2025

Iron City Bham

Birmingham, AL

Apr. 18, 2025

Vivid Music Hall

Gainesville, FL

Apr. 19, 2025

District Live at Plant Riverside District

Savannah, GA

Apr. 21, 2025

Lincoln Theatre

Raleigh, NC

Apr. 22, 2025

Howard Theatre

Washington, DC

Apr. 23, 2025

Theatre of Living Arts

Philadelphia, PA

Apr. 25, 2025

Citizens House of Blues

Boston, MA

Apr. 26, 2025

Irving Plaza

New York, NY

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Donnie Wahlberg-led group is preparing offer for Boston WNBA expansion team

From a new article from Boston.com

Report: Donnie Wahlberg-led group is preparing offer for Boston WNBA expansion team

Wahlberg and ex-NBA player Michael Carter Williams are attempting to bring the WNBA to Boston

A group of investors led by Massachusetts natives Donnie Wahlberg and Michael Carter-Williams are preparing a bid to bring a WNBA expansion team to Boston, according to Gary Washburn of The Boston Globe.

Wahlberg, a Dorchester native, rose to fame in the 1980’s as a member of the boy band New Kids on the Block. Carter-Williams, who is from Hamilton, played nine seasons in the NBA.

The group is called Boston Women’s Basketball Partners. The push for a new team in Boston comes during a period of significant expansion for the league. There were 12 teams in the WNBA last season. With the additions of teams in San Francisco, Portland, Toronto, and Cleveland, the league is expected to be at 16 teams by 2028.

Boston has enjoyed a long and storied basketball history with the Celtics, who have an NBA-record 18 championships. If this bid is successful, it would be the first WNBA team in Boston.

“As a longtime Boston Celtics fan who attended countless NBA games in my lifetime, nothing would bring me more joy than to have a WNBA franchise in the city of Boston,” Wahlberg told the Globe. “I look forward to the day I can walk into the Garden, along with thousands of the greatest (and most knowledgeable) basketball fans on the planet, to root for Boston’s hometown WNBA team.”

The WNBA has been in nearby Connecticut since 2003, with the Connecticut Sun playing at Mohegan Sun arena inside the Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey have offered support for the idea of binging a WNBA team to Boston, according to the Globe.

“As the city of champions, Boston is the hub for sports fans, and we would be delighted to host a trailblazing WNBA team,” Mayor Wu said in a statement to the Globe. “The introduction of a women’s team would expand opportunities for young basketball players in our city and we look forward to learning more about what we could accomplish together.”

If the bid is accepted, Boston Women’s Basketball Partners would have to apply for a team, be approved by league owners, and pay an expansion fee. Cleveland reportedly paid a league-record $250 million expansion fee, which is double the $125 million Portland paid in 2024.

The Sun played a sold-out game in Boston against the LA Sparks last summer at TD Garden. The Caitlin Clark-led Indiana Fever are scheduled to play the Sun at the Garden this August.

The WNBA began in 1997 with eight teams. Three of the eight, the New York Liberty, LA Sparks, and Phoenix Mercury, are still active. The league has seen teams fold and new ones rise over the years.

Now, it appears, the league is ready to grow, and Boston is vying for a piece of the action.

Joey at Newbury Comics/Faneuil Hall

Here are some videos from Joey’s appearance at Newbury Comics at Faneuil Hall this afternoon! He says that the first set of tour dates will be announced tomorrow! Thanks to @mac2knight for sharing these!

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Blue Bloods spin off announced!

From deadline.com:

Blue Bloods’ Universe Expands: CBS Orders ‘Boston Blue’ Drama Series Starring Donnie Wahlberg As Danny Reagan

EXCLUSIVE: Great news for Blue Bloods fans — one of the beloved police drama’s signature characters, Donnie Wahlberg‘s Danny Reagan, will be back on CBS with a new ‘Blue’ cop show in a new city. CBS has given a straight-to-series order to Boston Blue (working title), a universe expansion of the long-running Blue Bloods, for the 2025-2026 broadcast season.

In the new series, from writers Brandon Sonnier & Brandon Margolis (S.W.A.T.), Wahlberg will reprise his role as NYPD Detective Danny Reagan as he takes a position with Boston PD. Once in Boston, he is paired with Detective Lena Peters, the eldest daughter of a prominent law enforcement family.

Boston Blue is produced by CBS Studios in association with studio-based Jerry Bruckheimer Television. Sonnier and Margolis will serve as showrunners and will executive produce alongside Jerry Bruckheimer and KristieAnne Reed of JBTV as well as Wahlberg.

While CBS and CBS Studios, which produced Blue Bloods, had explored spinoffs from the popular family police drama, including one that would’ve had Danny Reagan move to Texas and another one with Tom Selleck, Boston Blue was not conceived as a Blue Bloods offshoot.

It originated with Sonnier and Margolis, along with JBTV, pitching CBS Studios and CBS a drama that follows a family of police officers in Boston whose eldest daughter is partnered with a new transfer from LAPD. The network ordered a script based off that pitch, sources said.

The script was well received at both the network and the studio whose executives saw the Boston family police drama project as an opportunity to make it part of the Blue Bloods universe by bringing in a character from the New York family cop drama.

Given Boston native Wahlberg’s deep ties to the city, CBS and CBS Studios zeroed in on Danny Regan and approached the Boston Blue creative team about changing the LAPD transplant character to NYPD’s Danny.

At the time, the network also ordered backup scripts while Wahlberg was approached about reprising his role, I hear. By early December, Jamaica Plain, named after a Boston neighborhood, was heating up for a pickup with Wahlberg in talks to join. His deal to star and executive produce just closed, and, with him on board and based on the creative, CBS made the decision to order now-titled Boston Blue to series for the 2025-2026 broadcast season.

Boston Blue joins Fire Country spinoff Sheriff Country, also from CBS Studios and JBTV, which is on deck for next season. The new series, as well as Fire Country, fall under JBTV’s overall deal at CBS Studios.

Additionally, CBS is exploring potential FBI, The Equalizer and The Neighborhood spinoffs for next season.

Finding a way to expand the Blue Bloods franchise has been a priority for the network and parent Paramount Global, with potential extensions teased at the company’s shareholder meeting last June. The popular series, starring Selleck, Wahlberg, Bridget Moynahan, Will Estes and Len Cariou, ended its 14-season run in December while maintaining a devoted fan following. In the series finale, Danny finally asked his longtime NYPD partner, Det. Maria Baez (Marisa Ramirez) out.

Sonnier and Brandon Margolis started in the NBC Writers on the Verge program. After five seasons on the long running NBC hit The Blacklist, they developed and showran L.A.’s Finest, the Sony and JBTV produced Bad Boys spinoff starring Gabrielle Union and Jessica Alba for Spectrum. The duo are executive producers on the upcoming third season of Fox’s procedural Alert: Missing Persons Unit.

Joey on Kiss 108 (February 18)

Joey announced that he will be playing a show in Boston on April 25! Sounds like his 16ish show tour will be on sale this Friday and the presale will be Thursday! Here is his interview!

Update: Here's another interview with Kiss 108 from Newbury Comics:

Monday, February 17, 2025

Donnie’s Bar Rescue episode airs next Sunday

Update 2/25: Not sure what happened, but Donnie's episode was not aired last Sunday. I'll post again if I hear when it actually airs.

In case you missed it in Donnie’s stories yesterday, he will be on “Bar Rescue” next Sunday, February 23rd, at 10/9c on the Paramount Network! Watch a preview clip here: