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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…

Cop dramas have been under the microscope following the death of George Floyd and the subsequent protests against police brutality. ABC's The Rookie, which stars Nathan Fillion as John Nolan, the oldest rookie in the LAPD, is taking steps to address these issues as it heads into season three. ABC Entertainment…

ABC has renewed 13 more series for 2020-21, eight of them scripted, including freshmen Stumptown and mixed-ish. The broadcast network has picked up American Housewife, black-ish, The Conners, The Goldbergs, A Million Little Things, mixed-ish, The Rookie, Stumptown; reality stalwarts The Bachelor, Dancing with the Stars…

ABC gave us another helping of magic on Sunday with The Disney Family Singalong: Volume II, which won the night delivering a 1.3 in the adults 18-49 demographic and 5.74 million viewers. Its medley of the tunes from the vast Disney music library overtook American Idol (1.0, 6.10M), which usually takes the top spot in…

Easter Sunday was fairly quiet on the TV front, with American Idol leading ratings again. ABC aired the first part of a two-part behind-the-scenes special, which drew a 1.0 in the adults 18-49 demographic and 6.91 million viewers. The show took a two-tenths hit from last week’s episode. Idol served as a lead-in to a…

ABC’s American Idol held steady Sunday with a 1.3 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and 7.20 million viewers, finishing as the night’s top-rated show. The two-hour episode led into The Rookie (0.8, 5.13M), which ticked up from last week and scored the series’ best audience numbers to date. The duo gave ABC the…

ABC on Sunday saw the return of The Rookie, which hit its highest rating in a year with a 0.8 in the adults 18-49 demographic and 4.89 million viewers, its second-largest viewership total ever. The Nathan Fillion-starring series benefited from American Idol (1.4, 7.46M) as its lead-in, with the reality singing…

ABC, the last network to make pickup decisions on its new fall series, has given back orders to comedy Mixed-ish and drama Stumptown. Additionally, the network has ordered additional episodes of sophomore drama The Rookie, which had a 13-episode pickup. I hear the Black-ish prequel has received an order for nine…

It was a sports-filled Sunday in broadcast primetime with Sunday Night Football on NBC and Game 5 of the World Series on Fox. But at the end of the night, it was football that sacked baseball’s fall classic. SNF, on which the Green Bay Packers beat the Kansas City Chiefs 31-24, scored a 5.1 rating in fast affiliates…

EXCLUSIVE: Once Upon a Time alumna Mekia Cox is returning to ABC with a series regular role on the upcoming second season of the network’s light cop drama The Rookie starring Nathan Fillion. Cox will play Detective Nyla Harper. After a four-year stint working undercover, Nyla Harper nearly lost herself. Now she's…

Another day of the 2019-20 broadcast season, another new series opening to a 0.7 adults 18-49 Live+Same Day rating. This time it is Fox’s animated comedy Bless the Harts. At this point, because so many new shows are starting this year at a ratings level which series in the past had hit en route to swift cancellation…

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…