📺 The Rookie: North (ABC) The Rookie spinoff cast update: Alex Holland

The Rookie: North' Gets ABC Pilot order
 Jay Ellis to star in spinoff


 It will be set in a rural landscape and will have Ellis as the protagonist

Follows closely the premise of the mothership series starring Nathan Fillion. It also is about a middle-aged guy who becomes the oldest rookie cop while transplanting the setting from an urban (Los Angeles) to rural (Washington state) environment. Ellis will play a character whose name, Alex Holland
Believed his mid-life wasn’t worthy of a crisis. But after a violent home invasion ignites a dormant purpose, Alex battles a lifetime of failed commitments by joining the Pierce County Police Department as its oldest rookie. Policing from the urban coast to the rural forest where backup isn’t just 5-minutes away, Alex must prove to his skeptical training officer, his fellow rookies, and himself, that he’s finally found something worthy of the fight