‘The Rookie: Feds’ Producer Promises ‘Connective Pieces,’ Crossovers With ‘The Rookie’ (Fall TV Preview)

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The Niecy Nash Betts-starring “The Rookie: Feds” hit the ground running earlier this year when it was introduced as a double-episode backdoor pilot in ABC’s “The Rookie.” And when the spinoff drama premieres Sept.

27 on ABC, in an episode titled “Day One” and set after Simone (Nash Betts) celebrates her graduation from Quantico, it gets right into the action.“The first thing she wants to do is after graduating from Quantico, she goes up to her old high school where she was a guidance counselor.… Simone wants to say goodbye to her students and kind of give them encouragement about how it’s never too late – again, speaking about what ‘The Rookie’ [franchise] is all about, reinvention, and about following your dreams no matter where you are in your life,’” showrunner and executive producer Terence Paul Winter told TheWrap when we spoke to him as part of our Fall TV Preview. “What Alexi [Hawley, co-creator and EP] set up in the pilot of the original series, and in what he and I put together in this one, and then of course because it’s ‘The Rookie,’ we think it’s just going to be a simple goodbye and then something very exciting and energetic happens.

I don’t want to spoil it, but it’s really a cool way to start the show, and it really declares what this show is.”“The Rookie: Feds” brings Nash Betts back to the role of Simone, the oldest rookie in the FBI, just like Nathan Fillion’s John Nolan character was when he joined the LAPD training program in Season 1 of “The Rookie.” Simone and Nolan developed a friendship in the backdoor pilot in “The Rookie” Season 4, so it’s only fitting that he’s there to greet her when she makes the move to Los Angeles in her full-time role as an FBI agent. “He’s actually the one who picks her.