All of these series, along with 9-1-1: Nashville, will be part of the Disney network’s 2025/26 schedule. Doctor Odyssey remains in limbo.
The Rookie is being boosted by recent ratings growth, with last month drawing its highest ratings — 8.25 million after three days — since a fifth-season episode in January 2023. The police drama has also performed well on Hulu.
The series, which is reportedly set for 18 episodes, follows John Nolan (Nathan Fillion), once the oldest rookie in the LAPD, who has used his life experience, determination and sense of humor to keep up with the rookies 20 years his junior. Now recovering from a gunshot wound and feeling the effects of age, John and the team welcome two new rookies and continue the hunt for two dangerous escaped convicts with very personal vendettas.
Newcomers Deric Augustine, who plays Miles Penn, and Patrick Keleher, who plays Seth Ridley, join Mekia Cox as Nyla Harper, Alyssa Diaz as Angela Lopez, Richard T. Jones as Sergeant Wade Grey, Melissa O’Neil as Lucy Chen, Eric Winter as Tim Bradford, Jenna Dewan as Bailey Nune, Shawn Ashmore as Wesley Evers and Lisseth Chavez as Celina Juarez.
It’s unclear whether The Rookie will remain a midseason series; the show’s first two seasons, which premiered in 2018, aired in October and September respectively, before moving to January in 2020, largely due to the Covid pandemic. Seasons four and five debuted in September, before moving to the midseason with a shortened sixth season — thanks in part to the strikes — with season seven launching in January with an 18-episode order. It’s unclear how many episodes The Rookie will have for season eight.
The Rookie is also the subject of a new spin-off from creator Alexi Hawley. It would be the series' second spin-off after The Rookie: Feds, which ran for one season.
