The primary season of The Rookie: Feds got here to an finish again in Could, and the leisure business was at a standstill over the months that adopted because of the WGA writers strike adopted by the SAG-AFTRA actors strike. Followers needed to wait greater than six months to search out out if Simone Clark and Co. would get a second season, and the information lastly broke on the identical day that the actors strike ended. Niecy Nash’s The Rookie spinoff has been cancelled after one season.
Along with ABC cancelling The Rookie: Feds, Deadline studies that The Good Lawyer is not transferring ahead as a derivative of The Good Physician. That is much less of a blow, nevertheless, as The Good Lawyer did not get additional than a backdoor pilot, whereas Niecy Nash’s present went from backdoor pilot to a 22-episode season with some crossovers with The Rookie. Whereas the Season 1 finale – which is now the sequence finale – did not finish on a cliffhanger, it did really feel prefer it was lacking one thing. Luckily, the cancellation does not need to imply that we have seen the final of Nash as Simone Clark.
The Rookie was renewed again in April, with weeks left earlier than the bloody Season 5 finale that arrange some severe issues for Season 6. There was no crossover with Feds, and John Nolan and Co. presumably have their plates full to begin the sixth season (with or with out Nathan Fillion’s Tom Selleck-worthy mustache), however I am hoping that The Rookie delivers some closure for Simone and the opposite Feds characters.
Niecy Nash, who beforehand mentioned that she felt good about the way forward for Feds, might undoubtedly match proper into The Rookie as a visitor star in Season 6. The actress even already opened up about what she needed to occur for Simone in a second season. Whereas all of her needs virtually definitely could not come true as a visitor star versus main girl of her personal present, the tip of Feds does not need to imply the tip of Nash within the Rookie universe.
If The Rookie and Feds have been somewhat extra related, I’d even pitch the concept of Niecy Nash becoming a member of the unique sequence as an everyday solid member, however it’s exhausting to think about the present discovering a approach to proceed Simone’s journey as a rookie FBI agent whereas additionally telling the tales of Chenford, Lopez, Nolan, and all the remaining.
Apparently, The Rookie was on the checklist of exhibits anticipated to start manufacturing in late November for the 2024 TV schedule; certainly there’s time to plan a particular episode or two to carry Nash again as Simone to complete her story somewhat greater than the Season 1 finale of Feds, proper? I hope so, anyway!
For those who’re nonetheless mourning the spinoff and are not fairly prepared to maneuver on and begin hoping to see Niecy Nash reprise her function on The Rookie, you may all the time revisit the complete first season of The Rookie: Feds streaming with a Hulu subscription. Nathan Fillion’s sequence is on the market on the streamer as nicely, so you can even try all of the Rookie crossovers with Feds as nicely.
