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Castle has a new address. Lifetime has set an October 5 premiere date for the latest exclusive cable syndicated run of the crime dramedy starring Nathan Fillion and Stana Katic. The series will play at 2 p.m. Tuesdays starting next week and will continue through November. It will go on hiatus when Lifetime begins its…

Amid strong ratings, ABC has picked up a fourth season of cop drama The Rookie. Created by Alexi Hawley, The Rookie stars Nathan Fillion as John Nolan, the oldest rookie at the Los Angeles Police Department. The Rookie averages nearly 10 million total viewers this season (9.80 million) after 35 days of delayed viewing…

The Rookie seeks to challenge the status quo of cop shows when it returns for its its third season in January. During a panel with ABC7’s Mark Brown, creator Alexi Hawley teased what’s to come in the new season and explained how the show will incorporate the ongoing conversations about police brutality sparked by the…

Nathan Fillion has been a mainstay at Comic-Con and other cons for years. In fact, during a Comic-Con@Home panel dedicated to the actor and moderated by The Rookie showrunner Alexi Hawley, a mustachioed Fillion recalls his first Comic-Con being in 2002 when he was a guest of Joss Whedon’s after he first signed on to…

The actor accused of sexual misconduct by former The Rookie star Afton Williamson has spoken out personally three days after being cleared in an investigation by producers eOne. Westworld alum Demetrius Grosse took to social media tonight in his first direct public statement since being implicated with harassment by…

Less than six weeks after Afton Williamson revealed on social media that she left ABC's The Rookie over sexual harassment and racial discrimination incidents, producer eOne today released the results of its investigation to what happened on the LAPD drama starring Nathan Fillion. “As a result of the independent…

EXCLUSIVE: We’re also hearing that Nathan Fillion will be starring in James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad at Warner Bros. The actor’s role is being kept under wraps. Fillion has a long history of working with Gunn: He played the voice of a monstrous inmate in Guardians of the Galaxy, Bill Pardy in Gunn’s 2006 horror comedy…

Emmy-winning film editor Chi-Yoon Chung has learned her craft from the likes of documentary filmmaker Nancy Baker and Oscar-nominated Silence of the Lambs and Reds editor Craig McKay. She recently put those skills to use cutting the pilot for ABC’s Nathan Fillion cop drama series The Rookie, which she discussed on…

Cop drama The Rookie will be hitting the streets of L.A. again for ABC. Heading into next week’s Upfronts, the Disney-owned network has decided to renew the Nathan Fillion led series for a second season. The pick-up for another cycle comes as ratings have been strong-ish for the show. The Rookie has averaged a 1.4…

ABC has picked up seven additional episodes of its new cop dramedy series The Rookie, bringing its freshman-season order to 20 episodes. This is considered a full-season order by ABC as The Rookie launched almost a month after the start of the broadcast season. Toplined by Castle star Nathan Fillion, ABC's The…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details about the pilot episode of The Rookie. At the beginning of ABC’s new cop drama The Rookie, Nathan Fillion’s character John Nolan is going through a divorce and is on a journey of self-discovery after 40. He asks “Who am I?” to a bank manager/friend. She answers, “The…

British pay-TV giant Sky and French commercial broadcaster M6 are among the broadcasters in 160 territories that have picked up Nathan Fillion cop drama The Rookie ahead of its ABC debut. Producer and distributor Entertainment One (eOne) has closed the deals ahead of its TX on October 16. NBCUniversal International…