ABC Cancels ‘Rookie: Feds’ & Axes ‘Good Doctor’ Spinoff ‘The Good Lawyer’
The Rookie: Feds and The Good Doctor spinoff, The Good Lawyer, will not move forward at ABC as the network canceled both projects.
Following its first season run The Rookie: Feds will not be back, and The Good Lawyer will not make it to air after initially being teased in a trailer earlier this year.
As fans of The Rookie: Feds know, the series starring Niecy Nash-Betts is a spinoff of Alexi Hawley‘s The Rookie which is led by Nathan Fillion. Premiering in 2022, Feds was first teased on the flagship series when Nash-Betts’ Simone Clarke was introduced in a two-part event during the fourth season of The Rookie.
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Similar to Fillion’s Officer John Nolan, Simone Clarke was the oldest rookie in the FBI Academy when she was introduced to audiences. Co-created by Hawley and Terence Paul Winter, they also executive produced Feds alongside Nash-Betts, Fillion, Mark Gordon, Michelle Chapman, Bill Norcross, Corey Miller, Michael Goi, and Bibby Dunn.
Meanwhile, The Good Lawyer was also set up in a similar fashion to The Rookie: Feds as a backdoor pilot was embedded in The Good Doctor‘s sixth season. Starring Kennedy McMann and Felicity Huffman, their characters made an appearance in a March episode that saw Freddie Highmore‘s Dr. Murphy put his faith in the hands of a young lawyer with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
The series was going to follow the legal proceedings of McMann’s Joni DeGroot and Huffman’s Janet Stewart which were teased in the trailer. Now, viewers will never get to see the show follow through, but The Good Doctor will continue at the network, leaving the door open for the characters to return, as will The Rookie for characters from The Rookie: Feds.
What do you think of these surprising cancellations? Let us know in the comments section, below.
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Well she just wasn't believable as an FBI agent for me anyway. Do FBI agents wear such low cut tops? And are they giving that much leeway just starting out?
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The good lawyer was never of interest to me. How ever Rookie Fed was. I liked the show and almost all the actors except Nicely Nash Betts. I loved her on other shows, but this part was just off for her. The others on the cast fit their parts like gloves. Nicely just seemed to struggle with hers. She sounded whiny to me when she spoke even when she was on the right track. It's just hard for me to put into words she just did not fit, I could not even get the idea of her being a school counselor to work for me. Sorry to see the show go but if you do not have a strong lead people just will not watch.
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I don't watch a lot of television at all, but I have quite a few family members and friends with OCD. I would have made time to watch The Good Lawyer as would the family members and friends I have...too bad 🙁
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I really enjoyed Rookie: Feds & thought Nicey Nash was a great example of how someone could change careers and use the strength she developed. I am not prudish, but I thought her tops were inappropriate for her as an FBI agent. Did she dress that way as a guidance counselor?
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I have no interest in The Good Lawyer. But I can't wait for The Good Doctor to come back!
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The Rookie Feds was absolutely awful. I would have probably given the good lawyer a shot but not really upset about either cancellation.
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Two more bad decisions by the networks. No surprise.
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