TOM SELLECK NYPD BLUE

Magnum PI in Manhattan?  Tom Selleck is back for a new TV show as a Big Apple cop, The ENQUIRER has learned.

The mustachioed 80s heartthrob is purportedly close to inking a deal to star with Wahlberg bro, Donny, in as yet untitled cop series.

Selleck would play Michael, the "handsome" and well-decorated chief of police for the NYPD.

The show previously  known as Reagan's Law was created by  two Sopranos writer/producers.

It would be the Emmy and Golden Globe winner's first regular gig since buoying up Las Vegas in its final season two years ago.

Not only is the 65 year-old one time Hawaiian Eye toplining in the CBS miniseries of Jess Stone mysteries Tom is also in  the new Ashton Kutcher- Katherine Heigl flick Killers.

Old TV stars don't fade away…they just get new gigs.