The Rookie: Feds Cancelled After 1 Season — and After 6 Months of Waiting on Decision
There will be no more cases for Simone Clark and The Rookie: Feds‘ other FBI agents to solve, as TVLine has learned that ABC’s offshoot of The Rookie has been cancelled after just one season.
The news comes a little over 24 hours after SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP reached a tentative deal to end the months-long actors’ strike.
The Rookie itself was renewed, for a sixth season, way back on April 17, at which time the Niecy Nash-led Feds‘ fate was very TBD. In mid-July — sensing that the WGA strike and then-new actors’ strike would complicate matters — ABC and its sister studio put a contractual hold on Feds‘ primary cast for a potential Season 2.
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The Rookie: Feds opened low back in September 2022, to just 2.2 million viewers and a 0.3 demo rating in ABC’s Tuesdays-at-10 death slot; TVLine readers gave the spinoff’s debut an average grade of “C+,” with 66% saying they planned to stay tuned.
But the series, from go, enjoyed extra-beefy delayed-playback boosts, doubling its early numbers. Those percentage gains waned, however, with the show’s midseason move to the 9 o’clock slot where it followed its sire, The Rookie.
The Rookie: Feds‘ freshman run averaged 4.3 million total viewers and a 0.5 demo rating (with Live+7 playback factored in). Out of the 10 drama series that ABC aired last TV season, it only outdrew only A Million Little Things‘ final season and the midseason freshman The Company You Keep in total viewers, while in the demo it only bested Alaska Daily and The Company You Keep — both of which got the hook a while ago.
Discussing the series’ uncertain fate back in May, Nash shrugged to TVLine, “I haven’t heard anything, I’m the same as you. I’m a lady in waiting… I love my job at Rookie: Feds. I love the people that I work with, so being able to do another season of it would be like heaven to me.”
How do you feel about losing Feds, after waiting nearly half a year for the decision?
