ABC has kept their fans on the edge of their seats. Not due to any storylines, but if they were going to pick up Will Trent and The Rookie for another season.
Today, we finally found out the fate of the two cop procedurals on social media. The Nathan Fillion drama based on an old Rookie in Los Angeles will be back for season 9. Granted, he hasn’t been a rookie in season 1, I guess it was too late to change the name.
Also, Bluebell has something to bark about. She and Ramón Rodríguez, her TV master’s series about the Georgia Bureau of Investigations, will be alive for season 5.
R.J. Decker, Scrubs, and Shifting Gears are still waiting to find out if they will report to work next season or not.
Firefly only lasted one season, but those 14 episodes were not enough for fans. So ever since it said goodbye in 2002, they have wanted more.
In 2005, they made a one-off movie, Serenity. But it was not enough.
Today, Nathan Fillion, along with his co-stars, Gina Torres (Zoe Washburne), Morena Baccarin (Inara Serra), Sean Maher (Simon Tam), Summer Glau (River Tam), Jewel Staite (Kaylee Frye), Adam Baldwin (Jayne Cobb), and Alan Tudyk (Hoban “Wash” Washburne) announced that they are working on an animated version of the show.
Married couple, Tara Butters and Marc Guggenheim, who met when they worked on the mothership, are the showrunners. A script is ready. ShadowMachine, an animation house, has been hired. So all they need is a home.
And Fillion is meeting with one now. Who is it? He didn’t say. But I think that Hulu would be the best home for it.
However, without Joss Whedon, even though they gave his blessing, I am not sure it will be as good. I find that most reboots, sequels, and revivals don’t work if the original creator is not involved. Am I alone with that feeling?
For as long as I can remember, The Rookie has aired Tuesdays at 10p on ABC. However, starting on January 26th, it is moving to Mondays at 10p after American Idol, which returns on that night.
Why? To make room for Scott Speedman’s RJ Decker, which will premiere on March 3rd.
Scott Speedman stars as RJ Decker, a disgraced newspaper photographer and ex-con who starts over as a private investigator in the colorful-if-crime-filled world of South Florida. The series follows him tackling cases that range from slightly odd to outright bizarre with the help of his journalist ex, her police detective wife and a shadowy new benefactor — a woman from his past who could be his greatest ally … or his one-way ticket back to prison. “RJ Decker” is inspired by the novel “Double Whammy” by Carl Hiaasen.
The Rookie will air without any repeats until the end of this season.
I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait for the new seasons of Will Trent and The Rookie. And today, ABC finally announced when those shows and a few others will be back.
The big news is that American Idol is starting earlier in the year, will only air one night, and the contestants are not going to Hollywood for the second part of televised auditions. Instead, they are going to Nashville for one round.
Do I smell a 9-1-1: Nashville/American Idol crossover episode in the works? I wouldn’t be surprised if that is in the works.
And talking about in the works, Scrubs is no longer in that stage and returns to ABC, after a 15-year break, on February 25th with back-to-back episodes.
Superman comes out on July 11th, but James Gunn is already prepping for the sequel.
How? He wants to bring back either Nathan Fillion, Skyler Gisondo, or Beck Bennett. But he can’t decide which. So, he had them participate in a bald off.
David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan, and Nicholas Hoult put bald caps on the three actors, and then Anthony Carrigan had to pick who would be in Superman 2 and who wouldn’t be.
Who will be flying with the Man of Steel? Becks beat out Jimmy Olsen and the Green Lantern.
