The Rookie Archives

It's been a pretty good week already for ABC's Nathan Fillion-starring The Rookie and it's only Tuesday Yesterday, viewers learned that Jenna Dewan's firefighter Bailey Nune has been promoted to series regular status as of the current fourth season The news comes only a day after actor, comedian & Saturday Night Live cast member Pete Davidson returned[...]

Viewers of ABC's Nathan Fillion-starring The Rookie will be seeing a lot more of firefighter Bailey Nune, with Deadline Hollywood reporting that Jenna Dewan has been promoted to series regular beginning the current fourth season Described as fun & unpredictable with a subversive sense of humor, Bailey was asked out by Nolan (Fillion) during the[...]

That's because ABC's Nathan Fillion-starring The Rookie is back with a Halloween-set episode that sees… the dead rising!!!!!! Okay, not really But a new designer drug has hit the streets that's pretty much bath salts on steroids, turning users into "zombies"- and making for helluva Halloween for Nolan (Fillion) Meanwhile, Lucy (Melissa O'Neil) starts wondering[...]

Only three episodes in and ABC's fourth season of the Nathan Fillion-starring The Rookie is already looking to match if not exceed the excitement of last season And the next episode "Red Hot" doesn't look to be letting up on the tension any time soon While Nolan (Fillion) and Chen (Melissa O'Neil) look to avert[...]

After stopping a major attempted robbery and Nolan (Nathan Fillion) restarting things fresh with Bailey (Jenna Dewan), this week's episode of ABC's The Rookie finds him and Chen (Melissa O'Neil) arriving at what they think is just a structure fire but there are vibes of something much more in play Meanwhile, a sniper shooting sends the[...]

In the following preview for this week's round of ABC's Nathan Fillion-starring series The Rookie, "Five Minutes"  finds Nolan (Fillion) facing some big decisions on both personal and professional levels First, Nolan and Chen's (Melissa O'Neil) one-on-one with an infamous thief could lead them to stop a heist at the Getty's big gala event[...]

Our line-up of news & opinion topics for today include HBO's The Last of Us, The CW's The Flash & Batwoman, Netflix's Super Crooks, FXX's It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, FOX's Family Guy, Apple TV Plus' Foundation, ABC's The Rookie, AMC's The Walking Dead, and a ton more And we wrap things with our reviews[...]

This Sunday sees the fourth season of ABC's Nathan Fillion-starring series The Rookie picking up where last season left off as Nolan (Fillion) and the entire team race to find Lopez (Alyssa Diaz) after she's abducted on her wedding day Now, the network is giving viewers two opportunities to get up to speed First, we[...]

With the fourth season of ABC's Nathan Fillion-starring series The Rookie set to kick off on September 26, viewers are getting an extensive look at season-opener "Life and Death" with the release of over two dozen preview images along with an episode overview and teaser But if you're up-to-speed on the series heading into the[...]

Written by series creator Alexi Hawley and directed by Lisa Demaine, the third season finale of The Rookie shows that the hit ABC series has no intentions of going out quietly As you see in the preview we posted yesterday (check it out here), Nolan (Nathan Fillion) faces a simple in-chase injury that doesn't stay simple for[...]

The good news? ABC and Alexi Hawley's The Rookie will be back for a fourth season, with the network making it official on Friday The not-so-good news? There's no way of knowing who will be around or how things will be left by the time the end credit roll on this Sunday's season finale "Threshold"- written by[...]

Friday brought a storm of series renewals, pick-ups, and cancellations, but viewers of ABC and Alexi Hawley's The Rookie got the news they were waiting for With Season 3 finale "Threshold" set for this Sunday, the Nathan Fillion-starring series was officially picked up a fourth season Considering the numbers that the series pulls for the network,[...]

Even though John Nolan (Nathan Fillion) is still dealing with some dire days ahead on a personal level, this week's episode of ABC's The Rookie ("Triple Duty") forces him out of the hospital and back on the streets in a very deadly way La Fiera (Camille Guat) has suffered the kind of personal loss that would[...]

While last week's episode of ABC's The Rookie focused on a very personal emergency in John Nolan's (Nathan Fillion) life, this week's "Triple Duty" brings the action back to the streets in a very deadly way Now that La Fiera (Camille Guat) has lost her last thread to reason and understanding, an all-out drug war[...]

Yesterday, we shared a preview for Sunday night's episode of ABC's The Rookie the shows the action shifting from the streets to the hospital after Nolan's (Nathan Fillion) son Henry (Zayne Emory) collapses at dinner- meaning Nolan and his ex-wife Sarah (Emily Deschanel) will need to work together to help him through this latest and deadliest[...]

With this Sunday's post-Oscars return episode of ABC's The Rookie, the action shifts from the precinct and city streets to the hospital after Nolan's (Nathan Fillion) son Henry (Zayne Emory) collapses at dinner With their son's life on the line, every minute matters as Nolan and ex-wife Sarah (Emily Deschanel) must work together to help[...]

Netflix has cast their golden boy Noah Centineo in a new series, where he will star as a "fledgling lawyer at the CIA who becomes enmeshed in dangerous international power politics when a former asset threatens to expose the nature of her long-term relationship with the agency unless they exonerate her of a serious crime."[...]

With our rookies making the grade to official officers, it's time for ABC's The Rookie to welcome some "New Blood" to their first day of training- and what better way for us to introduce them to you via a set of preview images, a promo, and sneak previews revealing some of the new faces Meanwhile,[...]

When ABC's The Rookie returns this Sunday, "Man of Honor" finds Nolan (Nathan Fillion) and Harper (Mekia Cox) once again facing the clock as a life's on the line when they attempt to help a mother being forced to steal $250,000 in diamonds in exchange for her child But as the minutes tick away, the[...]

Welcome back to another preview of ABC's third season of The Rookie, and it appears to be an episode filled with lasts, almost-last, and a possible first for two of our officers For Jackson (Titus Makin Jr.) and Chen (Melissa O'Neil), it's their last shift as rookies- an honor that Nolan (Nathan Fillion) will also[...]

ABC's The Rookie looks to be changing things up with this Sunday's episode, as Nolan (Nathan Fillion) and the team take on the case of a former child actor who now has a cult following in his name Of course, the leader's name is Jedidiah and the cult is the Children of the Stars- and in[...]

Heading into our preview for this Sunday's episode of ABC's The Rookie, Nolan's (Nathan Fillion) passed his disciplinary exam but also found himself faced with the stark realities of just how far he's going to go in the LAPD On tonight's "Revelations," we see the first step in Nolan's attempt at a "reset" as he[...]

After a week off thanks to the wide berth that the Super Bowl was afforded last Sunday across the television landscape, ABC's The Rookie returns this week- and wastes no time putting Nolan (Nathan Fillion) back into the meatgrinder As if facing down the future of his career in law enforcement in the form of[...]

Heading into this Sunday episode of ABC's The Rookie, viewers should have their radars attuned to some major things happening this week Why? Because the gods that keep our dumpster fires of speculation roaring have brought it to our attention that the episode description for tonight's "Sabotage" focuses on Officer West (Titus Makin Jr.) needing[...]

Welcome back to our weekly preview of ABC's third season of The Rookie– and if things haven't been volatile enough in his professional life? Sunday night's "La Fiera" finds Nolan (Nathan Fillion) dealing with an unexpected visitor in the form of his mother, played by Watchmen star Frances Fisher Meanwhile, Lopez (Alyssa Diaz) has personal matters[...]

With Nolan (Nathan Fillion) having suffered the "Consequences" of his season-ending action in last week's third season premiere of ABC and Alex Hawley's The Rookie, the attention turns to the Mid-Wilshire station attempting some serious community service to gain back the trust of the people Unfortunately, Brandon Routh's Doug Stanton might end up making that a[...]

With Alexi Hawley and ABC's The Rookie set to hit the streets for its third season this Sunday night, it does so with some major changes happening on both sides of the camera In the wake of the protests stemming from the 2020 protests over the killing of George Floyd, Hawley has promised that the[...]

DC's Legends of Tomorrow star Brandon Routh is moving on from his five seasons on the long-running CW to the set of the third season of ABC's The Rookie Created by Alexi Hawley and starring Nathan Fillion, the police drama is set to introduce Routh's Doug Stanton in the fourth episode and is contracted for[...]

While ABC's The Rookie might be the latest television series to be hit by several positive COVID-19 tests, show producer Entertainment One is continuing on with production on the third season after a "deep cleaning" of the set and filming locations On October 21, it was confirmed that four crew members had tested positive with[...]

Edgar Hoover worked with, and sometimes coerced, television producers to make shows that put law enforcement in a positive light. So what to do with our Law and Orders? Our SWATs? Our Hawaii-Five-O's? Our Criminal Minds? Our Numbers? Our NCIS's? Our CSI's? What about even more recent, and slightly more "woke" Brooklyn Nine-Nines and The Rookies?[...]