The Rookie North, Alexi Hawley’s anticipated spinoff from his long-running ABC drama The Rookie, is getting closer to fruition.

“I think we are looking at shooting a pilot in the spring or late winter, so we are gearing up for that,” Hawley told Deadline of the project, which has not been officially picked up to pilot, on the red carpet at ABC’s End of Summer Soirée Friday night.

Deadline revealed exclusively in December that ABC was developing a second Rookie spinoff set in Washington state, written/executive produced by Hawley and executive produced by The Rookie star/executive producer Nathan Fillion and fellow EPs Bill Norcross and Michelle Chapman.

“I’ve been going back, and there’s a script, I’ve been doing some drafts and getting some notes,” Hawley told Deadline in

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