The Rookie Archives

Seems like it was just yesterday that I was writing up that the new Nathan Fillion series, The Rookie, had cast Afton Williamson to play his training officer and that they were still looking to cast his love interests… and that's because it was just yesterday Today, the new ABC straight-to-series project has announced that[...]

Credit: Sam Aronov / Shutterstock.com The new Nathan Fillion-led series The Rookie has added Afton Williamson (The Night Of, Banshee) as a series regular The straight-to-series crime dramedy features Fillion as a 40-year-old rookie cop with Williamson playing Talia Bishop, his newly promoted training officer. Reports say that the series is still looking for to fill the[...]

The first pilot order was for executive producer Nathan Fillion's The Rookie, starring the actor as a middle-aged man who ends up becoming the youngest police rookie in the history of the LAPD. Take Two, the second pilot and one that hails from Castle creators Andrew Marlowe and Terri Edda Miller, follows a TV star (Rachel[...]

So, it's absolutely no surprise that ABC has ordered his new project, The Rookie, straight to series EW.com says the series is based on a true story as Fillion plays John Nolan, a rookie cop in the LAPD who is twenty years older than his fellow rookies. The series teams the actor with former Castle producer[...]