{"id":390295,"date":"2026-04-13T19:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/390295\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T19:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:23:09","slug":"the-rookie-will-trent-renewed-at-abc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/390295\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Rookie,’ ‘Will Trent’ Renewed at ABC"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBoth \u201cThe Rookie<\/a>\u201d and \u201cWill Trent<\/a>\u201d have been renewed for new seasons at ABC<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe renewal will take \u201cThe Rookie\u201d to its ninth season, while it will bring \u201cWill Trent\u201d to its fifth. Both shows are currently airing new seasons on ABC, with both slated to air their respective season finales in early May. <\/p>\n

\n\tAs previously reported, ABC has already renewed its primetime dramas \u201c9-1-1,\u201d \u201c9-1-1: Nashville,\u201d \u201cHigh Potential,\u201d<\/a> and \u201cGrey\u2019s Anatomy.\u201d Likewise, the hit comedy series \u201cAbbott Elementary\u201d was renewed<\/a> in March. That means the only shows awaiting word on new seasons are the freshman drama \u201cR.J. Decker\u201d and the sophomore multi-cam comedy \u201cShifting Gears.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tABC recently shot a pilot for an offshoot of \u201cThe Rookie\u201d titled \u201cThe Rookie: North.\u201d<\/a> Starring Jay Ellis, the pilot follows a man who joins the police force in the Pacific Northwest after a violent home invasion. At the time of this publishing, it is still awaiting word on a series pickup. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe Rookie\u201d stars Nathan Fillion as John Nolan, Mekia Cox as Nyla Harper, Alyssa Diaz as Angela Lopez, Richard T. Jones as Wade Grey, Melissa O\u2019Neil as Lucy Chen, Eric Winter as Tim Bradford, Jenna Dewan as Bailey Nune, Shawn Ashmore as Wesley Evers, Lisseth Chavez as Celina Juarez, and Deric Augustine as Miles Penn.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlexi Hawley created the series and serves as executive producer and showrunner. Mark Gordon, Fillion, Michelle Chapman, Bill Norcross, Brynn Malone, Moira Kirland, Bill Roe and Jon Steinberg are also executive producers on the series. It is produced by Lionsgate Television in partnership with 20th Television.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWill Trent\u201d Ram\u00f3n Rodr\u00edguez as Will Trent, Erika Christensen as Angie Polaski, Iantha Richardson as Faith Mitchell, Jake McLaughlin as Michael Ormewood, Kevin Daniels as Benjamin Franklin, with Sonja Sohn as Amanda Wagner.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe series is based on Karin Slaughter\u2019s \u201cWill Trent\u201d books. Liz Heldens and Daniel Thomsen developed the series for television and serve as executive producers along with Karine Rosenthal, Slaughter, Oly Obst, Jason Ensler, Ellen Marie Blum and Rodr\u00edguez. Heldens, Thomsen and Rosenthal also serve as showrunners. The series is produced by 20th Television.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Both \u201cThe Rookie\u201d and \u201cWill Trent\u201d have been renewed for new seasons at ABC. The renewal will take…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[10046,146,85,46,67768,411,67769],"class_list":{"0":"post-390295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-abc","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-the-rookie","13":"tag-tv","14":"tag-will-trent"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}