The Rookie: Feds, the spinoff of the long-running police drama series, has scored a full season order at ABC. The Disney-owned network has handed the series a back order of nine additional episodes, taking it to a total of 22 episodes for the season.
It comes three weeks after its launch on Tuesday September 27 and solid numbers, particularly with delayed multiplatform viewing.
The show increased five times in adults 18-49 with a delayed-viewing lift of +394% taking it to a 1.53 versus 0.31. After seven days of viewing across linear and digital platforms, it picked up more than 4M viewers over its live+same day average from 2.2M to 6.4M viewers.
It marks the first back order of the season for ABC. No word on extra episodes of its other fall series Alaska Daily yet, which launched on October 6 and had a similar multiplatform increase.
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