{"id":220965,"date":"2026-01-01T02:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T02:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/220965\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T02:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T02:43:09","slug":"the-rookie-season-8-cast-shakeup-1-star-seemingly-exits-several-confirmed-to-return-eg-nathan-fillion-slideshow-television-the-rookie-celebrity-news-and-gossip-entertain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/220965\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Rookie\u2019 Season 8 Cast Shakeup: 1 Star Seemingly Exits, Several Confirmed to Return! | EG, Nathan Fillion, Slideshow, Television, The Rookie | Celebrity News and Gossip | Entertainment, Photos and Videos | Just Jared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"page-links\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/12\/31\/the-rookie-season-8-cast-shakeup-1-star-seemingly-exits-several-confirmed-to-return\/\" alt=\"&#039;The Rookie&#039; Season 8 Cast Shakeup: 1 Star Seemingly Exits, Several Confirmed to Return!\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00ab First<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/12\/31\/the-rookie-season-8-cast-shakeup-1-star-seemingly-exits-several-confirmed-to-return\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00ab Previous <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/12\/31\/the-rookie-season-8-cast-shakeup-1-star-seemingly-exits-several-confirmed-to-return\/3\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/rookie1.jpg\" alt=\"Nathan Fillion as John Nolan\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nathan Fillion as John Nolan \u2013 Of Course Returning!<\/p>\n<p>Nathan Fillion will definitely be back as John Nolan for the hit series!<\/p>\n<p>When ABC renewed the show, he posted on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DIATj05yHAE\/\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DIATj05yHAE\/&#039;); return false;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>, \u201cI\u2019ve been around long enough to know how truly challenging and rare it is to have a long running show. Thank you all for sticking around for these 7 seasons- it\u2019s because of you that we are announcing season 8!! Congratulations to @alexihawley and the wonderful team that puts this show together. I am so very proud to work alongside all of you. Let\u2019s do this! #therookie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/rookie8.jpg\" alt=\"Jenna Dewan as Bailey Nune\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jenna Dewan as Bailey Nune \u2013 Confirmed to Return!<\/p>\n<p>Jenna Dewan is expected to return!<\/p>\n<p>In June 2025, she posted that she was in Prague on her Instagram Stories, writing, \u201cStarting Season 8 off in the most amazing way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While on Jimmy Kimmel Live this summer, Nathan confirmed the season kicks off in Prague, saying, \u201cWe went off to Prague to shoot a portion of the premiere episode of season 8..It felt like I was shooting Casino Royale. I\u2019m telling you, I\u2019m in a suit, you\u2019re walking down these incredible streets. I love the history. There\u2019s so much history. This building was built in the 1400s, but behind it are the old buildings. This beautiful clock, and it\u2019s such a dark history, too. This beautiful clock, it was so incredible, they said after the fella made it, they went and burned out his eyes with a white-hot poker so he would never make anything so beautiful again. Like, these were tough times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"page-links\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/12\/31\/the-rookie-season-8-cast-shakeup-1-star-seemingly-exits-several-confirmed-to-return\/\" alt=\"&#039;The Rookie&#039; Season 8 Cast Shakeup: 1 Star Seemingly Exits, Several Confirmed to Return!\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00ab First<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/12\/31\/the-rookie-season-8-cast-shakeup-1-star-seemingly-exits-several-confirmed-to-return\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00ab Previous <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/12\/31\/the-rookie-season-8-cast-shakeup-1-star-seemingly-exits-several-confirmed-to-return\/3\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00ab First\u00ab Previous Continue \u00bb Nathan Fillion as John Nolan \u2013 Of Course Returning! Nathan Fillion will definitely&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-220965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}