Here is some encouraging news in the ongoing industry contraction amid the gloom-and-doom predictions about the broadcast business: ABC is poised to expand its original scripted portfolio for a second year in a row.
That is because the network appears likely to pick up at least one of its two pilots while also renewing all of its current scripted series.
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Looking promising for a series order is The Rookie spinoff pilot The Rookie: North, starring Jay Ellis. ABC took a different route with the project from The Rookie creator/executive producer Alexi Hawley than it did with spinoff The Rookie: Feds, which originated as a two-episode arc on the original series that served as a backdoor pilot. The Rookie: North, which moves the concept of a patrol show with a middle-aged rookie cop to the rural forest of Pierce County, produced a standalone
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