The first season of the Canadian

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Rookie Blue ''Rookie Blue'' is a Canadian police drama television series starring Missy Peregrym and Gregory Smith. It was created by Morwyn Brebner, Tassie Cameron, and Ellen Vanstone. The series premiered on June 24, 2010, at 9:00 p.m. Eastern/8:00 ...

'' began airing on June 24, 2010 with a simultaneous premiere on

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in Canada and

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in the U.S. On July 12, 2010, four days after the third episode was broadcast, it was announced that the show had been renewed for a second season. The first season completed its run on September 9, 2010 with a double episode airing.

Production

The series is set and filmed in Toronto. The first season was produced in 2009 by

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, Thump Inc., and

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. The season was shot on 35mm film.

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, a co-creator of the series, served as showrunner for the first season. Cameron described the premise and her inspiration for the show as, "A sort of primal theme that’s interested me is imposter syndrome and the feeling I think everybody has: if you’re new at something you feel like a fraud. So what if it was that, but with guns?" The cast had one day of training with real police officers. During production ''Rookie Blue'' was known as ''Copper''. There was a very extensive promotional campaign in Canada for the premiere of ''Rookie Blue''. This included spots during the season finales of the top rated shows on Global, theatrical trailers, billboards in Toronto, Calgary, and Vancouver, print ads in major daily newspapers, an online game in which people could get a feel for what it is like to be a rookie police officer, online ads on some of the most popular sites, including

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, and on June 24, 2010 every broadcast and cable channel owned by Canwest carried hourly promotional spots for the premiere that night.

Ratings

In announcing the renewal of the series Canwest included revised figures of 2.1 million viewers, which makes it the most watched premiere of a Canadian drama series in more than a decade and the highest rated premiere for an original series commissioned by Canwest. The Canadian ratings company

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originally reported 1.9 million viewers. In the United States the premiere was the most successful scripted summer debut in over a year and in nearly six years for ABC. "Fresh Paint" drew 7.253 million viewers and an audience share in the 18–49 demographic of 2.0/6, according to overnight figures.

Cast

Main Cast

Missy Peregrym Melissa "Missy" Peregrym (born June 16, 1982) is a Canadian actress and former fashion model. She is known for her roles as Haley Graham in the 2006 film ''Stick It'' and Officer Andy McNally on the ABC and Global Television Network series ''Ro ...

as Officer Andy McNally * Gregory Smith as Officer Dov Epstein *

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as Detective Luke Callaghan *

Enuka Okuma Enuka Vanessa Okuma (; born September 20, 1976) is a Canadian actress, best known for her role as detective Traci Nash in the Global/ABC police drama series, ''Rookie Blue'' (2010–2015). Okuma is also known for her work on the Canadian televisio ...

as Officer Traci Nash *

Travis Milne Travis Milne (born July 18, 1986) is a Canadians, Canadian actor, best known for portraying Officer Chris Diaz in the drama series ''Rookie Blue''. Life and career Milne is from Lac La Biche, Alberta. He was a student in J.A.Williams High Schoo ...

as Officer Chris Diaz *

Charlotte Sullivan Charlotte Sullivan is a Canadian actress. Career Sullivan began acting professionally as a child. Her first on-screen role was an extra in a Liza Minnelli music video. She has had starring roles in the film ''Harriet the Spy'' (1996) and the ...

as Officer Gail Peck *

Noam Jenkins Noam Jenkins is a Canadian actor, voice actor, and television director. He is best known for his portrayal as Aiden Pearce in the 2014 video game ''Watch Dogs'', and Detective Jerry Barber on Global's ''Rookie Blue ''Rookie Blue'' is a Canad ...

as Detective Jerry Barber *

Matt Gordon Matt Gordon (born 1969) is a Canadian actor, perhaps best known for playing Doc in the sports sitcom '' Rent-a-Goalie'', and for his portrayal of Officer Oliver Shaw in the drama series ''Rookie Blue ''Rookie Blue'' is a Canadian police ...

as Officer Oliver Shaw *

Lyriq Bent Lyriq Bent (born January 3, 1979) is a Jamaican-Canadian actor. He is known for his roles in the ''Saw'' films, the television series ''Rookie Blue'', and '' The Book of Negroes''. Bent portrays Jamie Overstreet in the Netflix series ''She's Go ...

as Sergeant Frank Best * Ben Bass as Officer Sam Swarek

Recurring

Melanie Nicholls-King Melanie Nicholls-King is a Canadian actress, perhaps best known for playing Cheryl in the drama series ''The Wire'', and for her portrayal of Officer Noelle Williams in the drama series ''Rookie Blue''. Personal life Nicholls-King is from Toron ...

as Officer Noelle Williams *

Adam MacDonald Adam MacDonald (born May 16, 1977) is a Canadian actor, writer, and director. He is known for portraying Josh MacIntosh on the CBC show ''Being Erica'', Peter McGregor on '' Wild Roses'', and Detective Steve Peck on ''Rookie Blue'', and for hi ...

as Detective Steve Peck *

Aidan Devine Aidan Devine is an English–Canadian film actor. He was born in England and immigrated with his family to Canada at the age of 15. He studied at Dawson College's Dome Theatre in Montreal, Quebec and began his acting career in Montreal. He woul ...

as Sergeant Boyko

Episodes

U.S. Nielsen ratings

The following is a table for the United States ratings, based on average total estimated viewers per episode, of ''Rookie Blue'' on ABC.

References

External links

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List of ''Rookie Blue'' episodes
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