THE ROOKIE: Creator and executive producer Alexi Hawley gives the scoop on Season 6 and more – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/20/2024
Nathan Fillion in THE ROOKIE - Season 6 - "Strike Back" | ©2024 Disney/Raymond Liu

THE ROOKIE, ABC’s dramedy cop show, premieres its sixth season on Tuesday, February 20. The following week, the series celebrates its milestone 100th episode, which features the wedding of Nathan Fillion’s LAPD rookie-turned-training officer John Nolan to Jenna Dewan’s firefighter Bailey Nune. Series creator/executive producer Alexi Hawley, who wrote and directed Episode 100, “The Hammer,” sits down for a one-on-one interview to discuss THE ROOKIE during ABC’s portion of the Winter 2024 Television Critics Association (TCA) press tour in Pasadena, California. Not many shows make it to one hundred episodes. What does Hawley credit with THE ROOKIE’s longevity? “Nathan Fillion, […]Read On »


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THE ROOKIE: Creator Alexi Hawley on Season 2 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/10/2020
Richard T. Jones as Sergeant Wade Grey, Alyssa Diaz as Angela Lopez, Nathan Fillion as John Nolan, Eric Winter as Tim Bradford, Melissa O'Neil as Lucy Chen, and Titus Makin Jr. as Jackson West in THE ROOKIE - Season 2 | ©2020 ABC/Andrew Eccles

In Season 2 of THE ROOKIE, Sunday nights on ABC, Nathan Fillion’s title character, John Nolan, continues his education as the oldest rookie in the LAPD. This season, he’s got a new training officer, Nyla Harper (played by Mekia Cox), a former undercover officer. Harper was written in after Afton Williamson, who played the rookie’s previous training officer Talia Bishop, left the series complaining of sexual harassment by a guest actor and a crew member. Other changes on THE ROOKIE involve Nolan’s fellow trainee Lucy Chen (Melissa O’Neil) surviving being kidnapped and buried alive by a serial killer, Lucy’s training […]Read On »


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THE ROOKIE: The former CASTLE actor Nathan Fillion chats Season 2 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/21/2020
Nathan Fillion is John Nolan in THE ROOKIE - Season 2 | ©2020 ABC/Andrew Eccles

THE ROOKIE returns for the second half of its second season on ABC on Sunday, February 23. Nathan Fillion’s title character, John Nolan, is currently the oldest rookie in the Los Angeles Police Department. When the show comes back from its midseason cliffhanger, Nolan is caught up with the rest of his colleagues in the search for kidnapped fellow rookie Lucy Chen (Melissa O’Neil). Nolan is also contending with a new training officer, former undercover operative Nyla Harper (Mekia Cox). Fillion previously starred for eight seasons as the crime-solving lead on ABC’s CASTLE and is still beloved for playing Malcolm […]Read On »


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ONCE UPON A TIME: Actress Mekia Cox on playing real-life Tiana – exclusive interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/31/2018
Mekia Cox as Tiana/Sabine in ONCE UPON A TIME | © 2018 ABC/Craig Sjodin

In ONCE UPON A TIME, now in its seventh and final season on ABC Friday nights, the action has moved from the enchanted town of Storybrooke, Maine, to the somewhat more modern environs of Seattle, Washington State. Mekia Cox has joined the cast for this last year as aspiring food truck entrepreneur Sabine. Due to a curse, Sabine doesn’t realize that she is really Princess Tiana (the first African-American Disney princess, originally introduced in the animated film THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG), nor that her best friend and business partner Jacinda is really the likewise bewitched Cinderella. Cox is also […]Read On »


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