‘The Rookie: Feds’ Picked Up for Full 22-Episode Season at ABC

Niecy Nash-Betts has re-upped her constancy, bravery and integrity pledge via (at least) May.

ABC on Friday ordered an extra 9 episodes of freshman drama The Rookie: Feds, bringing its complete Season 1 haul to 22 episodes (aka a real, honest-to-goodness full-season — bear in mind these?).

The Rookie: Feds debuted on Sept. 27 to 1.8 million complete viewers and a 0.3 demo score, although these Live+Same Day numbers swelled to six.4 million and a 1.5 with delayed playback factored in. Season-to-date, the sunshine procedural — a derivative of the Nathan Fillion-fronted The Rookie — is averaging a 101% acquire in viewers with delayed playback, the second-largest increase seen by any ABC drama (trailing solely Big Sky‘s 124%).

Feds stars Nash-Betts as Simone Clark, the oldest rookie within the FBI. Clark is a “force of nature” and “the living embodiment of a dream deferred” — and she or he works collectively along with her new colleagues at the Bureau to deliver down the nation’s hardest criminals.

The solid additionally consists of Frankie R. Faison (Banshee), James Lesure (Las Vegas), Britt Robertson (Life UneXpected), Felix Solis (Ozark) and Kevin Zegers (Rebel).

TVLine readers gave the offshoot’s premiere episode (learn recap right here) a mean grade of “C+.”