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During the first seven seasons of The Rookie, the hit TV show often left fans guessing about what would happen next. In fact, even fans who’ve learned about what happened behind-the-scenes were very surprised when a popular character disappeared. Given how surprising The Rookie has been in the past, some of the show’s fans have tried to learn everything that is known about the upcoming eighth season.
Unfortunately for fans who can’t wait for The Rookie Season 8, they were recently given a disappointing update about it. On top of that, Jenna Dewan gave fans a tease about Season 8 that was truly baffling to see.
Jenna Dewan Teased The Rookie Season 8 Will Go International
Even though Jenna Dewan wasn’t one of The Rookie’s original stars, she clearly is one of most famous actors on the show. An actor who has starred in several movies and other shows, Jenna has made a name for herself. On top of her career, Jenna’s personal life, including her relationship with her ex-husband Channing Tatum, has garnered a lot of attention too.
Thanks to her notoriety, Jenna has more than 9.7 million followers on Instagram as of August 2025. Needless to say, a portion of Jenna’s social media followers are big fans of The Rookie. For that reason, many people took note when Jenna teased an aspect of The Rookie Season 8.
In June 2025, Jenna posted a photo of herself posing in front of a clocktower in Prague on her Instagram stories.
Most Likable The Rookie Characters, According to Collider | ||
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The Rookie Character | Actor | Rank |
Bailey Nune | Jenna Dewan | #10 |
Wesley Evers | Shawn Ashmore | #9 |
Aaron Thorsen | Tru Valentino | #8 |
Nyla Harper | Mekia Cox | #7 |
Wade Grey | Richard T. Jones | #6 |
Jackson West | Titus Makin Jr. | #5 |
Lucy Chen | Melissa O’Neil | #4 |
John Nolan | Nathan Fillion | #3 |
Angela Lopez | Alyssa Diaz | #2 |
Tim Bradford | Eric Winter | #1 |
Since Instagram stories disappear, the Instagram account @therookiebts has chronicled that Jenna included a telling caption with the image.
“Starting Season 8 off in the most amazing way.”
On top of Jenna teasing that part of The Rookie Season 8 will take place in Prague, the show’s main star confirmed that news.
In July 2025, Nathan Fillion appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, as can be seen on YouTube, and he confirmed what Jenna’s Instagram post hinted at.
Movies Shot in Prague, According to Prague City Adventures
- Amadeus
- Mission: Impossible
- Casino Royale
- Les Misérables
- Anthropoid
- Slaughterhouse-Five
- The Illusionist
During his talk show appearance, Nathan confirmed that part of The Rookie Season’s 8 premiere episode will take place in Prague. Nathan also spoke about how much he enjoyed filming The Rookie in the famous location.
“We went off to Prague to shoot a portion of the premiere episode of season 8 … It felt like I was shooting Casino Royale. I’m telling you, I’m in a suit, you’re walking down these incredible streets. I love the history. There’s so much history. This building was built in the 1400s, but behind it are the old buildings. This beautiful clock, and it’s such a dark history, too. This beautiful clock, it was so incredible, they said after the fella made it, they went and burned out his eyes with a white-hot poker so he would never make anything so beautiful again. Like, these were tough times.”
Between Nathan and Jenna, there is no doubt that The Rookie Season 8 will be going international.
In July 2025, a People article quoted The Rookie’s creator and showrunner, Alexi Hawley revealing how ABC reacted when he said he wanted to film the show in Prague. “When I first said, hey, I want to go to Prague for season 8, I got some looks, because that’s not a normal network television thing to do.” Alexi then explained that the show’s budget allowed the international filming schedule because they knew how to save money. “But I’m like we can absorb it, because we’ve gotten really good at making the show.”
On the one hand, it is amazing that The Rookie Season 8 will partially take place in such a gorgeous locale. On the other hand, from a storyline point of view, The Rookie filming in Prague is pretty crazy.
Why The Rookie Season 8 Filming In Prague Is Baffling
On top of what has come out in social media posts and during interviews, more has been revealed about The Rookie’s upcoming Prague scenes.
A July 2025 TVLine article reveals that it wasn’t just Jenna Dewan and Nathan Fillion who were filming scenes for The Rookie in Prague. Instead, The Rookie actors Mekia Cox, Bridget Regan, and Felix Solis also filmed scenes in Prague for the show.
Given the actors involved and the ending of the show’s seventh season, it certainly seems to assume that The Rookie’s characters aren’t vacationing in Prague. After all, Season 7 ended with the revelation that Bridget’s character, Monica Stevens, made an immunity deal with law enforcement. As a result, it seems safe to assume that The Rookie’s characters have traveled to Prague in connection with some information that Monica has given up.
There are three reasons why The Rookie’s Prague storyline is baffling.
The first reason why the storyline is baffling is that it makes no sense for a show about LAPD officers to have its characters fighting crime in another country. Sure, The Rookie’s characters have a history with Monica. But still, that doesn’t explain why some LAPD officers would be going to Prague to fight crime.
As John Nolan has gone from being a patrol officer to become a training officer, his responsibilities have grown. However, there is one thing that LAPD training officers don’t do, become international crime stoppers.
Secondly, it seems hard to fathom why Jenna’s Dewan’s The Rookie character, Bailey Nune, would be in Prague since she isn’t involved in battling crime. Instead, Bailey is a firefighter, EMT, and a 1st Lieutenant reserve in the Army National Guard.
As The Rookie has proven, the show has loved getting Bailey involved in the action as much as it can. With that in mind, fans can assume that The Rookie Season 8 will introduce some reason why Bailey went to Prague with John, Monica, and Nyla. Still, it is baffling that the show so often feels the need to insert Bailey into the drama, like she is the only firefighter and EMT working in Los Angeles.
The final reason why The Rookie going to Prague is baffling is because of how fans reacted to another storyline like that. During an earlier The Rookie storyline, the officers from the show traveled to Guatemala to save the character Angela Lopez. When that happened, fans recognized how ridiculous it was that members of LAPD were suddenly going on an international rescue mission.
In July 2025, a fan on the r/TheRookie subreddit asked posted about the show’s most unrealistic episode. That post argued that the Guatemala rescue episode was one of the two most unrealistic episodes, and the top most-upvoted responses agreed with that sentiment.
Since fans have already recognized how unrealistic one international The Rookie storyline was, it is baffling that the show is doing it again.
The Rookie
- Release Date
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October 16, 2018
- Network
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ABC
- Showrunner
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Alexi Hawley