{"id":221353,"date":"2026-01-01T08:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T08:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/221353\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T08:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T08:07:08","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-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/221353\/","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\/4\/\" 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\/6\/\" 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\/rookie6.jpg\" alt=\"Richard T. Jones as Wade Grey\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Richard T. Jones as Wade Grey \u2013 Returning!<\/p>\n<p>Richard T. Jones is expected back for the new episodes!<\/p>\n<p>He told <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/post\/rookie-actor-richard-jones-reflects-7-seasons-hit-abc-tv-series-far\/16116812\/\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/abc7.com\/post\/rookie-actor-richard-jones-reflects-7-seasons-hit-abc-tv-series-far\/16116812\/&#039;); return false;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABC<\/a> about the show\u2019s longevity, \u201cI hope we go on for a very, very long time. You know, I can have\u2026a cane, walking around chasing people, like, \u2018Stop! Stop!\u2019 You know, I don\u2019t care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/rookie9.jpg\" alt=\"Shawn Ashmore - Wesley Evers\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Shawn Ashmore as Wesley Evers \u2013 Returning!<\/p>\n<p>Shawn Ashmore is expected to return!<\/p>\n<p>In April, when the writers room for season 8 was starting, showrunner Alexi Hawley told <a href=\"https:\/\/tvline.com\/lists\/the-rookie-wesley-district-attorney-season-8\/primos-cancelled-disney-season-2\/\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/tvline.com\/lists\/the-rookie-wesley-district-attorney-season-8\/primos-cancelled-disney-season-2\/&#039;); return false;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TV Line<\/a>, \u201cThe writers room literally started yesterday [in April 2025], but we\u2019re sniffing around a bit of where to take that story, and it would certainly make sense for Wesley, who was a defense attorney and believes very strongly in righting the wrongs of an injust justice system. He\u2019s an assistant DA, they have not a ton of power, so becoming the DA would give him an ability to shake things up. So, we\u2019re definitely kicking the tires on that idea.\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\/4\/\" 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\/6\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00ab First\u00ab Previous Continue \u00bb Richard T. Jones as Wade Grey \u2013 Returning! Richard T. Jones is expected&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-221353","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\/221353","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=221353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221353\/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=221353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}