Niecy Nash-Betts‘ The Rookie: Feds will keep for a full season. ABC has ordered 9 extra episodes of The Rookie spinoff, bringing its Season 1 episode rely to 22.
Nash-Betts performs Particular Agent Simone Clark, the FBI’s oldest rookie, within the crime procedural. Clark is a pressure of nature, the residing embodiment of a dream deferred. She works collectively together with her new colleagues on the Bureau to deliver down the nation’s hardest criminals. Clark and her fellow Rookie: Feds gamers had been launched in a backdoor pilot in The Rookie Season 4. Nathan Fillion helped usher within the new collection by showing as John Nolan in The Rookie: Feds collection premiere on September 27.
The complete-season pickup comes after simply 4 episodes of the freshman collection have aired. After its community debut, the drama jumped almost 5 occasions in adults 18-49 after delayed multi-platform viewing with a delayed-viewing carry of +394% (1.53 score vs. 0.31 score), per ABC. After only one week of viewing throughout linear and digital platforms, the collection premiere picked up greater than +4.0 million viewers over its Dwell+Similar Day common (+4.2 million – 6.4 million vs. 2.2 million). It’s additionally one in every of solely three broadcast packages this season to greater than double its Dwell+Similar Day viewers after seven days of delayed linear playback (+101%).
The Rookie: Feds additionally stars Frankie R. Faison as Simone’s father, Christopher “Cutty” Clark. Her colleagues on the bureau are James Lesure as Carter Hope, Britt Robertson as Laura Stensen, Felix Solis as Matthew Garza, and Kevin Zegers as Brendon Acres. Nash-Betts teased an thrilling love curiosity for Simone at San Diego Comedian-Con 2022, promising the lover reveal would are available in The Rookie: Feds Season 1 Episode 3. As promised, the meet-cute went down exterior Simone’s father’s home when Simone met DJ (whose actual identify is Dina) — performed by Nash-Betts’ IRL spouse, Jessica Betts!
In Episode 5, “Felicia” (airing October 25 at 10/9c), Simone and Carter get trapped within the tropics whereas looking down a suspect on the run. Simone’s sudden meet-cute with DJ throws a wrench into Cutty’s love life, and Elena’s high-end vogue splurge cracks open an unsolved homicide thriller.
The Rookie: Feds was created by The Rookie bosses Alexi Hawley and Terence Paul Winter, who additionally function co-showrunners and govt producers. Mark Gordon, Nash-Betts, Fillion, Michelle Chapman, Invoice Norcross, Corey Miller, Michael Goi and Bibby Dunn are govt producers.
Different Fall 2022 reveals with current season orders are the Quantum Leap reboot at NBC and Fireplace Nation, East New York, and So Assist Me Todd at CBS. All 4 of the reveals are a few of community TV’s largest premieres of the 12 months.
The Rookie: Feds, Tuesdays, 10/9c, ABC
