The Rookie heads north, with Tim and Lucy on viewers' minds

ABC pairs The Rookie and The Rookie North in a premiere promo, while the comments focus on the familiar characters' predicament.

Channel: ABC Story of October 12, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 38,212 views a day, 23 times a normal first day on this channel (1,668).

From L.A. to the Pacific Northwest, the call goes out Wednesday, January 6. 🚨

Los Angeles and the Pacific Northwest share the billing, but Tim and Lucy are getting much of the attention beneath ABC's new Rookie promo. Viewers are asking whether the characters are being tortured, recalling Lucy's earlier confinement and wondering how their colleagues might respond.

Those are viewers' readings of a teaser, not a settled account of the plot. What ABC does announce is a shared Wednesday, January 6 premiere date for The Rookie and The Rookie North. The short reached about 20,000 views in nine hours, already well beyond the audience an ordinary ABC Short draws over its entire first day. Its comment section is also far busier than usual.

The geographic expansion has a separate introduction on the channel: another promo names Alex Holland as The Rookie North's new rookie. Alongside it, ABC is teasing the original show's return with a promise to pick up moments left unresolved by the finale.

Not all of ABC's unusually fast-moving clips are about police drama. A Scrubs short titled "Blake needed this moment, and this moment needed Blake. ❤️" also drew a much larger early audience than usual, giving the channel a comedy moment alongside its Rookie suspense.

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The numbers

The Rookie promo passed ABC's usual full-day Shorts audience within its first nine hours. The Scrubs clip also made an unusually strong start.

the video's first day

usual first day here

1,668

this video

38,212

subscribers

3,300,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

2,977,157,042

views per day

2,631,047

typical day: 1,415,939

the video

views

20,535

likes

1,725

comments

87

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Oscars

3,480,000

Bravo

3,470,000

Peacock

3,460,000

ABC

3,300,000

HBO

3,260,000

HBO Max

3,200,000

As of October 12, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.