TCA: 'Sopranos' Alums Burgess and Green On Switching To A Show About Heroes

At the panel for CBS’ new cop/family drama Blue Bloods, the show’s writers-executive producers Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess were asked about departing the anti-hero drama genre they mastered on HBO’s The Sopranos to take on  the CBS series starring Tom Selleck.

“We did the anti-hero for all  those years, it was wonderful, it’s an old tradition…but every great character you see on TV right now is dark, they have a problem,  we were very interested, as a curative after the Sopranos, to find out what a hero is,“ said Green. Added Burgess: “We were very conscious that we wanted to rediscover the hero, and write that, we did the other thing and now we want to do this. “