The Rookie Archives

ABC's freshman cop dramedy The Rookie has a lot of promise The stories are interesting, the jokes are funny, the subject matter is treated respectfully, and the main character is played by geek idol Nathan Fillion (John Nolan) Additionally, the casting is fantastic! Of eight main character roles–all police officers–half are badass women played by fantastic actors: Alyssa Diaz[...]

ABC's new drama series The Rookie stars Nathan Fillion as John Nolan, a 40 year old rookie police officer with the Los Angeles Police Department Nolan and his fellow rookies Jackson West (Titus Makin Jr.) and Lucy Chen (Melissa O'Neil) have to learn their jobs, try not to piss off their training officers, and get past their[...]

Credit: ABC As follow up to their official Fall 2018-2019 programming schedule and upfront presentation to Madison Avenue advertising executives, ABC has released the trailers for seven of its new comedies and dramas; including an extended look at Nathan Fillion's The Rookie and our first look at Lauren Cohan's (The Walking Dead) action-comedy series Whiskey Cavalier: https://youtu.be/h5-0wgrWB9gVideo[...]

ABC is reopening their Friday 8-9 pm comedy block; and adding its first regular prime time talk show in nine years on Sunday night. Here's a look at ABC's Fall 2018-19 schedule, along with detailed descriptions of the network's new series (in bold): ● MONDAY 8 pm — Dancing with the Stars 10 pm — The Good Doctor ● TUESDAY 8 pm[...]

Credit: ABC Following up on yesterday's official announcement that Castle executive producer/co-showrunner Alexi Hawley's light crime drama series The Rookie has received a series order, ABC is sharing a teaser look at the upcoming Nathan Fillion (Castle, Firefly) series. Written by Hawley and directed by Liz Friedlander, the project was the subject of a "competitive situation" that resulted[...]

Credit: ABC/Kevin Foley Castle fans barely had time to mourn the loss of star Nathan Fillion's presence from their ABC screens (there was Modern Family, but that wasn't the same…) before today's news that the network has given a formal series order to Castle executive producer/co-showrunner Alexi Hawley's light crime drama series The Rookie[...]

Credit: CBS The precinct at ABC's The Rookie continues to get crowded, with word that Ray Donovan's Alyssa Diaz has been charged as a series regular in the light crime drama series. Written by former Castle executive producer/co-showrunner Alexi Hawley and executive produced by series star Nathan Fillion (Castle), the Mark Gordon/Entertainment One and ABC Studios production[...]

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[...]