ABC Cancels THE ROOKIE: FEDS

THE ROOKIE: FEDS has been canceled after a season.

During the WGA strike, THE ROOKIE: FEDS co-showrunner Alexi Hawley expressed hope the show would be picked up for a second season when the strikes came to an end.

“I do feel very positive about it, still,” he shared in September. “They do really like to show. We did have conversations at the end of season 1 about some things that work well and some things that we could make some changes on, which I agree with, too. Any first-year show, there’s a learning curve. So I still feel really good about it. But the issue ultimately is going to be, do they have an open hour of television? So that’s where it’s the math that I can’t really equate, because I don’t know what else they have.”

“What I will say is that to have Niecy Nash-Betts as a lead on your network is a huge deal,” he continued. “She might win an Emmy for that DAHMER role. She’s on the top of everyone’s list in Hollywood. The second she became available, [she would be snapped up,] so I think that’s an opportunity. We’re hoping they understand what they have, and they just embrace it. Because again, they really do like to show creatively. And it did really well. I mean, at the end of the day, it was more about sort of carryover numbers, because they still do that math of [viewers] going from ROOKIE into FEDS. And we were doing really good, but we weren’t at that level yet of, oh, an immediate [renewal]. But that’s what season 2 is about.”

The drama also starred James Lesure, Britt Robertson, Felix Solis, Kevin Zegers, and Frankie Faison. Terence Paul Winter co-created the series with Hawley.

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