Nathan Fillion & Niecy Nash-Betts Tease What’s To Come In ‘The Rookie’s Fifth Season & ‘The Rookie: Feds’ First, How “Mothership” Series & Spinoff Will Overlap – Comic-Con

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Key creatives behind ABC’s hit police procedural The Rookie and its upcoming spinoff The Rookie: Feds made an appearance at Comic-Con today to tease what’s coming up on both series, and discuss the nature of the interaction planned for them.Panelists for the conversation with TV Guide Magazine’s Damian Holbrook included The Rookie‘s Nathan Fillion, The Rookie: Feds’ Niecy Nash-Betts and the executive producers of both series, Alexi Hawley and Terence Paul Winter.

While all of the above were initially believed to be stopping by San Diego for an in-person appearance, they wound up joining the talk virtually from set, to the audible dismay of fans in the room, and only after some technical issues with the livestream. “Oh my god,” said Holbrook, “they haven’t figured this out yet.”Debuting on ABC in 2018, The Rookie centers on John Nolan (Fillion) who, after a life-altering incident, switches gears in his life and career to pursue his dream of joining the LAPD.

As their oldest rookie, he’s met with skepticism from those who see him as just a walking midlife crisis. Introduced via a two-part backdoor pilot planted in The Rookie‘s fourth season, The Rookie: Feds centers on Special Agent Simone Clark (Nash-Betts), who is a force of nature, the living embodiment of a dream deferred – and the oldest rookie in the FBI Academy.Hawley and Winter shared that they’re currently three episodes into filming on both the fifth season of The Rookie and its offshoot’s first.

The former said that the latest year of The Rookie will feel like “a real transitional” one, with “a lot of movement”—nothing that the show will continue to tell “some harder stories,” with familiar villains returning.Fillion noted that the upcoming season of the