Finally! As of October 11 we received some information about Season 9!! Just incase you missed the big announcements, check out the following posts:

WARNING - the following links contain MAJOR spoilers from the Season 8 Finale and Season 9 Premiere!

• Trailer and Release Date for The Rookie Season 9 and The Rookie North
• Two New Additions to The Rookie Cast!
• TVLine Cast Interviews Teasing Season 9
• Fan Questions answered at New York Comic Con
• A Third Announced New Addition to the Cast!

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January 6, 2027 can't come fast enough!

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Have you finished (re)watching The Rookie and wondering what to watch next, while you wait for the next season? Check out the following TV shows, which are frequently recommended by your fellow The Rookie fans.

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The Rookie Spinoffs

• The Rookie: Feds (1 Season, 22 Episodes): Special Agent Simone Clark, the oldest rookie in the FBI Academy, is assigned to support the LA field office.
  
• Plot Crossover Episodes: 4, 10, 17, 21
• Cast Crossover Episodes: 1, 2, 6, 7, 8
• The Rookie: North (Upcoming Series): A middle-aged man joins the Pierce County Police Department as its oldest rookie after a traumatic home invasion, facing rural policing challenges while trying to prove he finally has something worth fighting for.

Patrol / Rookies / Training Officers

• Blue Lights (3 Seasons, 18 Episodes, Returning Series): Follows rookie police officers working in Belfast, a city in which being a frontline response cop comes with unique pressures and dangers.
• SouthLAnd (5 Seasons, 43 Episodes): The lives of police officers working for the Los Angeles Police Department.
• 19-2 (English) (4 Seasons, 38 Episodes): The day to day of two unwilling Montreal patrol officers affected by troubled pasts. S2 E1 is one of the most realistic portrayal of a school shooting and makes for an unforgettable viewing experience.
• Rookie Blue (6 Seasons, 74 Episodes): The stakes are high for five young cops fresh out of the Academy and ready for their first day with one of the most elite units in Toronto’s 15th Division.
• On Call (1 Season, 8 Episodes): Follows a pair of Long Beach police officers on patrol as they respond to a new radio call, arriving on the scene to resolve incidents.
• Les Bleus : Premiers pas dans la police (4 Seasons, 35 Episodes): Six fairly cocky Paris police academy-graduated newbies join the metropolitan police for real on-the-job training from arrogant veterans who bicker among themselves, and the rookies' private lives and backgrounds keep interfering.
• Bosch: Legacy (3 Seasons, 30 Episodes): Bosch embarks on the next chapter of his career and finds himself working with his one-time enemy, Honey Chandler. Meanwhile, Bosch's daughter Maddie joins the LAPD as a Rookie.

Situational Comedy

• Brooklyn Nine-Nine (8 Seasons, 153 Episodes): Comedy series following the exploits of Det. Jake Peralta and his diverse, lovable colleagues as they police the NYPD's 99th Precinct.
• The Good Cop (1 Season, 10 Episodes): A disgraced former NYPD officer lives with his son, an earnest, obsessively honest NYPD detective.
• Goop Cop/Bad Cop (1 Season, 8 Episodes): Siblings working as detectives in a small town navigate quirky locals, limited resources, their strained relationship, and their father, who's the police chief, in this comedic crime procedural.

Procedurals / Whodunits / Howcatchems

United States

• Castle (8 Seasons, 173 Episodes): When a psychopath commits murders based on novelist Richard Castle's books, Detective Kate Beckett seeks his help to solve the case. He decides to work with her and uses his experiences as research for his novels.
• The Mentalist (7 Seasons, 151 Episodes): A famous "psychic" outs himself as a fake, and starts working as a consultant for the California Bureau of Investigation so he can find "Red John", the madman who killed his wife and daughter.
• Bones (12 Seasons, 245 Episodes): F.B.I. Special Agent Seeley Booth teams up with the Jeffersonian's top anthropologist, Dr. Temperance Brennan, to investigate cases where all that's left of the victims are their bones.
• Monk (8 Seasons, 124 Episodes, 1 Movie): The series follows Adrian Monk, a brilliant former San Francisco detective, who now consults the police as a private consultant while battling with an obsessive-compulsive disorder.
• Elementary (7 Seasons, 154 Episodes): In modern New York, the famous detective and mind of Sherlock Holmes teams up with Doctor Watson and the New York Police Department to solve all the crimes and capture all the criminals that threaten the streets of New York.
• Cold Case (7 Seasons, 156 Episodes): Philadelphia Homicide Detectives combine instincts and updated technologies to solve cold cases.
• White Collar (6 Seasons, 81 Episodes): A white-collar criminal agrees to help the FBI catch other white-collar criminals using his expertise as an art and securities thief, counterfeiter, and conman.
• The Closer (7 Seasons, 109 Episodes): Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson runs the Priority Homicide Division of the LAPD with an unorthodox style. Her innate ability to read people and obtain confessions helps her and her team solve the city's toughest, most sensitive cases.
• Major Crimes (6 Seasons, 105 Episodes): The Closer (2005) spin-off series, which follows Captain Raydor of the Los Angeles Police Department.
• Blue Bloods (14 Seasons, 293 Episodes): Blue Bloods follows the lives of the NYPD's First Family of Law Enforcement: the Reagans. Franchise includes: Boston Blue (Fall 2025 Premiere).
• Bosch (7 Seasons, 68 Episodes): Harry Bosch is a homicide detective in the LAPD. He is doggedly determined to solve the cases that come his way, relying on good old-fashioned police work: following leads, looking for the smallest of clues, gathering evidence. He doesn't always toe the party line which often gets him into trouble with his superiors but he always gets the perpetrator, which more than makes up for this. Franchise includes: Bosch: Legacy, Ballard.
• Ballard (1 Season, 10 Episodes): LAPD Detective Renée Ballard oversees a new cold-case division in the department.
• Against the Wall (1 Season, 13 Episodes): This Chicago-set family drama follows a policewoman who causes a rift with her three cop brothers when she decides to join the department's Internal Affairs division.
• Forever (1 Season, 22 Episodes): Medical examiner Dr. Henry Morgan works with his partner Detective Jo Martinez to solve criminal cases. Along the way, he tries to uncover the mystery of his 200-year-old immortality.
• Instinct (2 Seasons, 24 Episodes): A former CIA operative who has since built a "normal" life as a gifted professor and writer is pulled back into his old life when the NYPD needs his help to stop a serial killer on the loose.
• Numb3rs (6 Seasons, 119 Episodes): An FBI agent, Don Eppes, recruits his brother, Charlie, a mathematics genius, to help solve crimes using advanced mathematics in Los Angeles, California.
• Psych (8 Seasons, 121 Episodes, 3 Movies): When a novice sleuth convinces the police he has psychic powers, he and his reluctant best friend are hired on as consultants to help solve complicated cases.
• Perception (3 Seasons, 39 Episodes): Dr. Daniel Pierce is a neuroscience professor with a deep knowledge of human behavior. He's also a paranoid schizophrenic who struggles with hallucinations. Daniel helps his former student, FBI agent Kate Moretti, as a consultant.
• Person of Interest (5 Seasons, 103 Episodes): An ex-CIA agent and a wealthy programmer save lives via a surveillance AI that sends them the identities of civilians involved in impending crimes. However, the details of the crimes, including the civilians' roles, are left a mystery.
• Rizzoli & Isles (7 Seasons, 105 Episodes): Boston's assertive detective Jane Rizzoli and steady medical examiner Maura Isles are hailing from very different economic backgrounds, but the strong, competent women effectively work together to solve the city's most puzzling crimes.
• Lie to Me (3 Seasons, 48 Episodes): The world's leading deception researcher, Dr. Cal Lightman, studies facial expression, body language and tone of voice to determine when a person is lying and why, which helps law enforcement and government agencies uncover the truth.
• Longmire (6 Seasons, 63 Episodes): Walt Longmire is the dedicated and unflappable sheriff of Absaroka County, Wyoming. Widowed only a year, he is a man in psychic repair but buries his pain behind his brave face, unassuming grin and dry wit.
• Stalker (1 Season, 20 Episodes): A team of detectives investigates stalkers in Los Angeles.
• The Irrational (2 Seasons, 29 Episodes): Alec Mercer is a world-renowned behavioral scientist who lends his expertise to an array of high-stakes cases involving governments, law enforcement and corporations with his unique and unexpected approach to understanding human behavior.
• The Killing (4 Seasons, 44 Episodes): A police investigation, the saga of a grieving family, and a Seattle mayoral campaign all interlock after the body of 17-year-old Rosie Larsen is found in the trunk of a submerged car.
• The Shield (7 Seasons, 88 Episodes): A gang of corrupt Los Angeles Police Department cops uses illegal methods to maintain law and order, whilst engaging in a series of undercover dealings secretly in order to get rich.
• The Wire (5 Seasons, 60 Episodes): The Baltimore drug scene, as seen through the eyes of drug dealers and law enforcement.
• Third Watch (6 Seasons, 132 Episodes): The exploits of a group of men and women who serve New York City as police officers, firefighters, and paramedics in the fictional 55th Precinct.
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent (10 Seasons, 195 Episodes): Follows the New York City Police Department's (NYPD) Major Case Squad (MCS), a force of detectives who investigate high-profile murder cases, while also showing parts of the crime from the perpetrator's point of view. Franchise includes: Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Trial By Jury, Law & Order: Los Angeles, Law & Order: True Crime, Law & Order: Organized Crime, Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D., Chicago Med, Chicago Justice.
• S.W.A.T (8 Seasons, 163 Episodes): Follows a Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team as they battle crime in Los Angeles, California. Franchise includes: SWAT Exiles (Upcoming Series).
• FBI (7 Seasons, 135 Episodes, Returning Series): Follows the inner workings of the New York field office criminal division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), as they fight to keep New York City and the country safe. Franchise includes: FBI: Most Wanted, FBI: International.
• Criminal Minds (18 Seasons, 354 Episodes, Returning Series): A group of criminal profilers who work for the FBI as members of its Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) using behavioral analysis and profiling to help investigate crimes and find the suspect known as the unsub. Franchise includes: Criminal Minds: Evolution, Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior, Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders.
• 9-1-1 (8 Seasons, 124 Episodes, Returning Series): Explores the high-pressure experiences of the first responders who are thrust into the most frightening, shocking, and heart-stopping situations. Franchise includes: 9-1-1: Lone Star, 9-1-1: Nashville.
• NCIS (22 Seasons, 487 Episodes, Returning Series): Follows the Major Case Response Team (MCRT) from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), as they get to the bottom of criminal cases connected to Navy and Marine Corps personnel. Franchise includes: JAG, Hawaii Five-0, NCIS: Los Angeles, NCIS: New Orleans, NCIS: Hawaiʻi, NCIS: Sydney, NCIS: Origins, NCIS: Tony & Ziva.
• Elsbeth (2 Seasons, 30 Episodes, Returning Series): Astute but unconventional attorney Elsbeth Tascioni utilizes her singular point of view to make unique observations and corner brilliant criminals alongside the NYPD. Franchise includes: The Good Wife, The Good Fight.
• Will Trent (3 Seasons, 41 Episodes, Returning Series): Special Agent Will Trent was abandoned at birth and endured a harsh coming-of-age in Atlanta's overwhelmed foster care system. Determined to make sure no one feels as he did, he now has the highest clearance rate.
• High Potential (2 Seasons, 16 Episodes, Returning Series): Follows Morgan, a single mom of three kids and how thanks to her exceptional mind, she is able to help to solve a crime as she rearranges evidence during her shift as a cleaner for the police department.

Procedurals / Whodunits / Howcatchems

India

• The Family Man (2 Seasons, 19 Episodes, Returning Series): A working man from the National Investigation Agency tries to protect the nation from terrorism, but he also needs to keep his family safe from his secret job.
• Delhi Crime (2 Seasons, 12 Episodes, Returning Series): Based on the Nirbhaya case, Delhi Crime follows the Delhi Police investigation into finding the men who perpetrated this crime.
• Crime Patrol (9 Seasons, 2074 Episodes, Returning Series): Crime never pays. Franchise includes: Crime Patrol Dial 100.
• C.I.D (2 Seasons, 1593 Episodes, Returning Series): A group of officers who work for the Crime Investigation Department seek help of a professional forensic expert to solve various criminal cases.

Procedurals / Whodunits / Howcatchems

United Kingdom & Northern Ireland

• Silent Witness (28 Seasons, 248 Episodes, Returning Series): A team of exceptional forensic pathologists and scientists investigate heinous crimes and use their skills to catch the people responsible.
• Obituary (2 Seasons, 12 Episodes, Returning Series): Series about an obituarist working at a small-town newspaper, who suddenly finds herself being paid by the obituary due to cuts. When she "accidentally" kills a nasty piece of work, she discovers she might have an untapped bloodlust, and sets her sights on other unpleasant residents of the town. Her killing spree hits a potential snag when the paper hires an attractive crime correspondent.
• Karen Pirie (2 Seasons, 6 Episodes, Returning Series): After the promotion to Police Scotland's Historic Cases Unit, Karen Pirie reopens the cold case of a murdered barmaid. Her investigation unearths flaws in the original 1995 inquiry.
• Line of Duty (6 Seasons, 36 Episodes): Drama series following the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anti-corruption unit.
• Marcella (3 Seasons, 24 Episodes): Marcella Backland left the Metropolitan Police for the sake of her family, only to have her husband leave her. She returns to her job on the murder squad, investigating a case that seems disturbingly familiar to her.
• The Fall (3 Seasons, 17 Episodes): A seemingly cold but very passionate policewoman goes head to head with a father, who is in fact a serial killer, in this procedural out of Belfast. The only thing they share is their common complexity.
• Happy Valley (3 Seasons, 18 Episodes): Yorkshire-based crime drama centering on the personal and professional life of Police Sergeant Catherine Cawood.

Procedurals / Whodunits / Howcatchems

Canada

• Flashpoint (5 Seasons, 75 Episodes): Follows the lives and missions of the Toronto Police Department's Strategic Response Unit (SRU), a fictional police tactical unit which uses psychological profiling to take down a variety of different criminals.
• Motive (4 Seasons, 52 Episodes): A feisty Vancouver homicide detective tracks down the most cunning of killers by trying to figure out the often-unexpected motive to the crime.
• The Detail (1 Season, 10 Episodes): Three female homicide detectives solve crimes while also dealing with their personal lives.

Procedurals / Whodunits / Howcatchems

Australia & New Zealand

• My Life is Murder (5 Seasons, 46 Episodes, Returning Series): Follows the adventures of fearless private investigator Alexa Crowe, who solves the most baffling crimes as well as coping with the frustrations of everyday life.
• The Tourist (2 Seasons, 12 Episodes): When a man wakes up in the Australian outback with no memory, he must use the few clues he has to discover his identity before his past and the cops catch up with him.
• Harrow (3 Seasons, 30 Episodes): Harrow tells the story of Dr. Daniel Harrow, a forensic pathologist with a total disregard for authority.

Procedurals / Whodunits / Howcatchems

France

• Engrenages (English Title: Spiral) (8 Seasons, 86 Episodes): Follows criminal investigations in Paris from all the different points of view of those involved.
• HPI Haut Potentiel Intellectuel (5 seasons, 40 Episodes): Morgane has a 160 IQ but it never really helped her in her everyday life. The police decide to bring her on board to help them track down and catch highly intelligent criminals.

Vigilante Justice

• Dexter (8 Seasons, 96 Episodes): He's smart. He's lovable. He's Dexter Morgan, America's favorite serial killer, who spends his days solving crimes and nights committing them.
• Dexter: New Blood (1 Season, 10 Episodes): Ten years after faking his death in Miami and moving to Upstate New York under an assumed name, Dexter gets an unexpected visit from the son he abandoned.
• Dexter: Original Sin (1 Season, 10 Episodes): Follows a young Dexter Morgan as he transitions into an avenging serial killer.
• Dexter: Resurrection (1 Season, 10 Episodes, Returning Series): After surviving a gunshot, Dexter wakes from a coma to find his son missing. He searches NYC to reconcile, but Batista's arrival brings past troubles. Father and son must face their darkness together to escape.

Other Shows: Cast and Crew

• Alexi Hawley: Castle, The Recruit, The Rookie: Feds, The Following, State of Affairs
• Nathan Fillion: Castle, Firefly, Serenity, The Recruit, Resident Alien
• Eric Winter: Rosewood, Secret and Lies, Witches of East End, Brothers & Sisters, The Mentalist
• Melissa O’Neil: Dark Matter, iZombie
• Alyssa Diaz: Ray Donovan, SouthLAnd, Law and Order: LA
• Richard T. Jones: Criminal Minds, Santa Clarita Diet, Judging Amy
• Mekia Cox: Secrets and Lies, Chicago Med, Once Upon A Time
• Jenna Dewan: Witches of East End, Soundtrack, Step Up
• Shawn Ashmore: The Following, X-Men, X2: X-Men United, X-Men: Days of Future Past
• Harold Perrineau: Oz, Claws, Lost, From
• Tru Valentino: The Cuphead Show!
• Lisseth Chavez: Chicago PD, Legends of Tomorrow
• Bridget Regan: 9-1-1, Batwoman, Jane the Virgin, The Last Ship, White Collar, Agent Carter, Paradise Lost
• Annie Wersching: Castle, Bosch, The Last of Us, Star Trek: Picard, Runaways, Timeless, The Vampire Diaries
• Deric Augustine: All American, Godfather of Harlem, The Family Business: New Orleans