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Niecy Nash-Betts makes her debut as Simone Clark in the first trailer for ABC’s The Rookie: Feds (above) ahead of the show’s premiere on September 27. Simone is a former guidance counselor living her dream of becoming an FBI agent in The Rookie spinoff—making her the oldest rookie in the agency. Taking on the role…

Key creatives behind ABC’s hit police procedural The Rookie and its upcoming spinoff The Rookie: Feds made an appearance at Comic-Con today to tease what’s coming up on both series and discuss the nature of the interaction planned for them. Panelists for the conversation with TV Guide magazine’s Damian Holbrook…

Those 135,000 folks flying into San Diego from various countries to line up for hours to see their fave stars at Comic-Con might be greatly upset to learn that not all panels are live and in-person. The crowds are real, but some panelists are being beamed in via satellite. Deadline has learned that today’s panels for…

ABC will get more of The Rookie, renewing the cop drama headlined by Nathan Fillion for Season 5. The Rookie hails from creator and executive producer Alexi Hawley. The Rookie renewal comes less than two months after Deadline revealed exclusively that ABC is looking to expand on the drama’s world with an FBI-focused sp…

EXCLUSIVE: Frankie Faison rounds out the quartet of actors set to anchor ABC's proposed spinoff from The Rookie set at the FBI. Along with previously cast Niecy Nash, Kat Foster and Felix Solis, Faison will guest star in a two-episode arc in the current fourth season of The Rookie, which serves as a backdoor pilot for…

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…