The Rookie: Feds Canceled After One Season

The spinoff of one of ABC's top shows won't be joining its parent series on ABC's schedule next season. The Rookie: Feds has been canceled after just one season, weeks after The Rookie was renewed for a sixth. The series tied Not Dead Yet as ABC's highest-rated new series this season, with a 0.30 average, but that average was still very underwhelming. Its performance improved midseason when it was moved to 9 PM behind the most compatible lead-in ABC could find: The Rookie. While The Rookie saw a huge spoken the ratings, gains for Feds were more modest, and its retention from The Rookie looked downright ugly at times. ABC has decided that the post-Rookie slot can be better used on something else. Niecy Nash-Betts, Britt Robertson, James Lesure, Felix Solis, Frankie Faison and Kevin Zegers starred in the series.

ABC Orders Full Season of The Rookie: Feds

Fall's new series continue to gain order extensions, as ABC has now granted a full season to one of its new series, The Rookie: Feds. The pickup is for a full twenty-two episodes, the first such pickup this season (NBC granted eighteen episodes to Quantum Leap while CBS is remaining mum on the episode counts for its three extended dramas). Feds has been a poor first-run ratings performer this season, with just a 0.29 average in the 18-49 ratings demographic. However, it has performed much better in played multi-platform viewing, matching its parent series as a strong performer in that metric. Its twenty-two episodes will lock down the troubled Tuesday at 10 time slot for ABC, which has yet to find a show to last more than two seasons in that slot (the last shows to survivor the slot, The Rookie and Big Sky, were both moved off the slot for their second seasons) in recent memory. The Rookie: Feds stars Niecy Nash, Britt Robertson, James Lesure, Frankie Faison, and Felix Solis star in the series.

Dramas The Rookie: Feds and Alaska, Comedy Not Dead Yet Ordered to Series by ABC; LA Law Revival & More Passed On

ABC, on the heels of renewing every single bubble show earlier today, has handed out three new series orders.