{"id":214125,"date":"2026-01-03T01:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T01:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/214125\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T01:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T01:54:09","slug":"the-rookies-melissa-oneil-promises-quick-follow-up-to-chenford-cliffhanger-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/214125\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rookie&#8217;s Melissa O&#8217;Neil Promises Quick Follow-Up To #Chenford Cliffhanger \u2014 Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt7587890\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Rookie<\/a>&#8221; returns on Tuesday, Jan. 8 at 10 pm Et \u2014 but will Lucy snooze her way through the Prague-set Season 8 premiere?!<\/p>\n<p>When last we tuned in to the ABC drama, <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm13217958\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sergeant<\/a> <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4941351\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lucy Chen<\/a> (played by <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2047780\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melissa O&#8217;Neil<\/a>) embarked on her first night shift with the &#8220;<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0163582\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dream Team<\/a>,&#8221; who she learned got their name by sleeping in their cruisers in a parking lot. After whipping her team into shape, Sergeant Chen chose to catch up on her sleep in a different \u2014 but also quite compromising! \u2014 situation.<\/p>\n<p>After her shift, <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1806304\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Bradford<\/a> (<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0935721\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Winter<\/a>) surprised dead-tired Lucy at her home with homemade breakfast \u2014 and a proposal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Rookie&#8221; returns on Tuesday, Jan. 8 at 10 pm Et \u2014 but will Lucy snooze her way&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[6946,6947,430,6948,156,434,4223,409,111,43,139,69,5436,417,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-214125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-actors","9":"tag-actresses","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-directors","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-films","14":"tag-hollywood","15":"tag-movies","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-nz","20":"tag-stars","21":"tag-television","22":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}