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The Rookie: North will follow a middle-aged man becoming a police officer
The Rookie creator Alexi Hawley is developing a new spin-off, titled The Rookie: North, with Jay Ellis as its lead.
The show is set in Washington State and follows Alex Holand, a man in his 40s or 50s who becomes a police officer.
That story closely resembles John Nolan’s path in The Rookie, where Nathan Fillion plays a man who starts a new career in the police force later in life.
The franchise’s earlier spin-off, The Rookie: Feds, also featured a character making a career change in her 40s, but she became an FBI agent and had worked as a guidance counselor.
The Rookie: Feds was canceled, and the new show’s similar premise has raised concerns that it may repeat that spin-off’s problems.
The Rookie: North is still in development, and no further details about its release or future are given.
ABC is developing The Rookie: North, a spin-off of its series The Rookie.
Jay Ellis has been cast as the lead, Alex Holand, a man in his 40s or 50s who becomes a police officer.
The series is set in Washington State and follows Holand as he starts a new phase of his life.
Collider argues that the premise is too similar to that of The Rookie’s lead character, John Nolan.
The article also compares the proposed spin-off with the cancelled The Rookie: Feds, which had a similar career-change premise.
- Who
- Alex Holand, played by Jay Ellis, is the lead character.
- What
- The Rookie: North is a planned spin-off about a middle-aged man who becomes a police officer.
- When
- Not stated.
- Where
- Washington State.
- Why
- Holand starts a new phase of his life; the reason he becomes a police officer is not stated.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
This story does not have a timeline yet.
- Series
- The Rookie: North
- Lead actor
- Jay Ellis
- Lead character
- Alex Holand
- Character's age
- 40s-50s
- Setting
- Washington State