The Rookie
2018 American police procedural television series
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| April 3 2025 | ABC renewed the series for an eighth season. |
| February 12 2025 | Fifth season of The Rookie released on DVD in Region 4 |
| January 7 2025 | The seventh season of The Rookie premiered on television. |
| December 5 2024 | A second spin-off series was reported in development, set in Washington state and focusing on a male cop in his second act of life, to be created by Hawley with Fillion, Norcross, and Chapman as executive producers. |
| April 15 2024 | ABC renewed the series for a seventh season, which premiered on January 7, 2025. |
| February 20 2024 | The sixth season premiered. |
| November 9 2023 | 'The Rookie: Feds' was canceled after one season, partly due to the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. |
| May 2 2023 | 'The Rookie: Feds' concluded its first and only season. |
| April 17 2023 | Executive producer and showrunner Alexi Hawley confirmed in an interview that the sixth season would contain ten episodes. |
| September 27 2022 | 'The Rookie: Feds' premiered. |
| August 31 2022 | Fourth season of The Rookie released on DVD in Region 4 |
| June 2022 | Britt Robertson, Kevin Zegers, and James Lesure joined the cast of 'The Rookie: Feds' as series regulars. |
| May 13 2022 | ABC gave a series order to the spin-off under the title 'The Rookie: Feds', with subsequent creative changes removing Kat Foster's character. |
| March 30 2022 | ABC renewed the series for a fifth season, which premiered on September 25, 2022. |
| March 9 2022 | Kat Foster and Felix Solis joined the cast of the FBI spin-off series, with Frankie Faison also joining the cast that month. |
| February 16 2022 | Third season of The Rookie released on DVD in Region 4 |
| February 8 2022 | ABC ordered a pilot for a planned FBI spin-off of The Rookie series, starring Niecy Nash, introduced through a two-episode backdoor pilot in Season 4. |
| October 21 2021 | Following the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the Rust film set, The Rookie banned live weapons during filming. Showrunner Alexi Hawley mandated that only airsoft guns would be used, with muzzle flashes added through CGI in post-production. |
| May 14 2021 | ABC renewed the series for a fourth season, which premiered on September 26, 2021. |
| April 15 2021 | During filming in Los Angeles, police received a call about a possible shooting near Hartford Avenue and West 5th Street. Three gunshots were heard, but no crew members were injured. Filming in the immediate area was temporarily shut down. |
| February 24 2021 | Second season of The Rookie released on DVD in Region 4 |
| May 21 2020 | ABC renewed the series for a third season, which premiered on January 3, 2021. |
| January 22 2020 | First season of The Rookie released on DVD in Region 4 (Australia) |
| October 28 2019 | The second season received a full season order of 20 episodes. |
| October 2 2019 | Mekia Cox joined the cast as a new series regular, Nyla Harper, for the second season. |
| September 17 2019 | An investigation into Williamson's allegations was completed by law firm Mitchell Sillerberg and Knupp and third-party firm EXTTI, which involved nearly 400 hours of interviews and evidence examination. The investigation found no merit to Williamson's claims. |
| August 27 2019 | First season of The Rookie released on DVD in Region 1 |
| August 4 2019 | Afton Williamson announced her departure from the series, citing alleged racial discrimination, sexual harassment, and sexual assault during the first season. |
| July 26 2019 | TVLine reported that Afton Williamson would not return for the second season of The Rookie, following her allegations of racial discrimination, sexual harassment, and bullying on set. |
| May 10 2019 | ABC renewed the series for a second season, which premiered on September 29, 2019. |
| November 5 2018 | The series was picked up for a full first season of 20 episodes. |
| October 16 2018 | The Rookie television series premiered on ABC, starring Nathan Fillion as John Nolan, the oldest rookie in the Los Angeles Police Department. |
| March 7 2018 | Production on the pilot began, with filming taking place in multiple locations including Los Angeles, Oxnard, Burbank, and New York City. |
| February 7 2018 | Initial main cast members were announced, including Afton Williamson as Talia Bishop, Eric Winter as Tim Bradford, Melissa O'Neil as Lucy Chen, Richard T. Jones as Sergeant Wade Grey, Titus Makin as Jackson West, Alyssa Diaz as Angela Lopez, and Mercedes Mason as Captain Zoe Andersen. |
| January 2018 | Liz Friedlander signed on to direct and executive produce the pilot for The Rookie TV series. |
| October 26 2017 | ABC announced a straight-to-series order for The Rookie, starring Nathan Fillion and written by Alexi Hawley, with Fillion and Hawley serving as executive producers. |
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