What higher option to have a good time The Rookie lastly returning, with its seventh season premiere simply over a month away (January 7, 2025), than with the forged having enjoyable? To advertise the upcoming return, ABC has put collectively a few of the present’s finest blooper reels, and TV Insider can solely unveil the newest one. (The primary one was on Nathan Fillion’s Instagram, and the subsequent will likely be on Eric Winter’s.)
Watch the forged getting musical behind the scenes within the full video above.
“Our forged is such a pleasure – and so they have such a very good time on set – it simply felt enjoyable to indicate that facet to everybody. And we occurred to have a backlog of bloopers from a number of of our previous seasons,” govt producer Alexi Hawley tells us. “It’s additionally the primary time we haven’t aired within the fall and we’re all feeling that absence. So this was a means we might carry the present again into folks’s lives whereas they watch for the primary episode to air in January.”
Season 6 left off with three well-known enemies, Monica (Bridget Regan), Oscar (Matthew Glave), and Jason (Steve Kazee), on the run—and due to this fact threats to our characters. A couple of weeks may have handed between seasons in-show for The Rookie when Season 7 premieres. That’s “time for Nolan’s [Nathan Fillion] harm to heal sufficient for him to come back again to work — though whether or not he’s absolutely prepared is a part of the storytelling in Episode 1,” teases Hawley. “Our fugitives are nonetheless at massive once we come again, and we gained’t discover decision straight away (though there will likely be some false alarms alongside the best way).”
The manager producer likens the premiere to “a little bit of a purposeful re-pilot. We’re introducing two new rookies [played by Deric Augustine and Patrick Keleher] — which implies our entrance row in roll name will now be full for the primary time since Season 3. We positively got here into this season decided to maintain transferring ahead, telling new tales, shaking issues up the place we might, whereas preserving the present as enjoyable to look at as ever.”
Additionally a mixture of the previous and new? What’s to come back for exes Tim (Eric Winter) and Lucy (Melissa O’Neil). “By the tip of final season, Tim and Lucy had labored by means of a whole lot of the emotional injury Tim brought on by blowing up their relationship. It was necessary to us to come back into Season 7 with a way of positivity, of them having gotten to a spot the place the previous dynamics might begin to relax in — whereas they attempt to navigate whether or not there’s a means again to what they’d,” previews Hawley.
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The Rookie, Season 7 Premiere, Tuesday, January 7, 2025, 10/9c, ABC