Overview
- Episode 3 will air as scheduled on Tuesday, Jan. 20, before the series relocates to Mondays at 10 p.m. beginning Jan. 26.
- Episodes 4–18 will run weekly without interruptions through May 4, with next-day streaming available on Hulu.
- ABC will launch RJ Decker in The Rookie’s former Tuesday 10 p.m. slot on March 3 alongside Will Trent and High Potential.
- The Season 8 premiere drew 7.88 million viewers across platforms in three days, and it set the series’ biggest streaming premiere based on seven-day views.
- On Mondays, The Rookie follows American Idol, with NBC’s Brilliant Minds and CBS’s CIA slated as time-slot competition later in the season.