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Rookie Blue
Season 1
Region 1 DVD cover
No. of episodes13
Release
Original networkGlobal
Original releaseJune 24 (2010-06-24) –
September 9, 2010 (2010-09-09)
Season chronology
Next →
Season 2
List of episodes

The first season of the Canadian police drama Rookie Blue began airing on June 24, 2010 with a simultaneous premiere on Global in Canada and ABC 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.[1] The first season completed its run on September 9, 2010 with a double episode airing.[2]

Production

The series is set and filmed in Toronto. The first season was produced in 2009 by Canwest, Thump Inc., and E1 Entertainment. The season was shot on 35mm film.[3] Tassie Cameron, 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?"[3] The cast had one day of training with real police officers.[4] During production Rookie Blue was known as Copper.[5]

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 TMZ.com, Perez Hilton's blog, Yahoo!, and AOL, and on June 24, 2010 every broadcast and cable channel owned by Canwest carried hourly promotional spots for the premiere that night.[6]

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.[7] The Canadian ratings company BBM Canada originally reported 1.9 million viewers.[8]

In the United State the premiere was the most successful scripted summer debut in over a year and in nearly six years for ABC.[9] "Fresh Paint" drew 7.253 million viewers and an audience share in the 18–49 demographic of 2.0/6, according to overnight figures.[10]

Cast

Main Cast

Recurring

Episodes

See also: List of Rookie Blue episodes
No.
overall		No. in
season		TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateCanadian viewers
(millions)
11"Fresh Paint"David WellingtonTassie CameronJune 24, 2010 (2010-06-24)1.900[8]
22"Mercury Retrograde"Charles BinaméMorwyn BrebnerJuly 1, 2010 (2010-07-01)1.394[11]
33"Fite Nite"David WellingtonEsta SpaldingJuly 8, 2010 (2010-07-08)1.753 [12]
44"Signals Crossed"Paul FoxSherry WhiteJuly 15, 2010 (2010-07-15)1.640[13]
55"Broad Daylight"Alex ChappleSemi ChellasJuly 22, 2010 (2010-07-22)1.805[14]
66"Bullet Proof"Charles BinaméEllen VanstoneJuly 29, 2010 (2010-07-29)1.483[15]
77"Hot and Bothered"David WellingtonRuss CochraneAugust 5, 2010 (2010-08-05)1.598[16]
88"Honour Roll"Eric CanuelAdam PettleAugust 12, 2010 (2010-08-12)1.529[17]
99"Girlfriend of the Year"David WellingtonTassie CameronAugust 19, 2010 (2010-08-19)1.476[18]
1010"Big Nickel"Steve DiMarcoMorwyn Brebner & Adam PettleAugust 26, 2010 (2010-08-26)1.682[19]
1111"To Serve or Protect"TW PeacockeRuss CochranSeptember 2, 2010 (2010-09-02)1.547[20]
1212"In Blue"John FawcettNoelle Carbone & Esta SpaldingSeptember 9, 2010 (2010-09-09)1.480[21][a]
1313"Takedown"David WellingtonEllen Vanstone & Adam Barken & Tassie CameronSeptember 9, 2010 (2010-09-09)1.480[21][a]
  1. ^ a b Ratings from BBM Canada for the two-hour season finale are reported as a single 2-hour time block instead of being divided into individual 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.

Season 1 - (ABC)
# # Title U.S. air date Rating Share Rating/share
(18-49) 		Viewers
(millions)
1 1 "Fresh Paint" June 24, 2010 4.3[22] 8[22] 2.0/6[10] 7.240[22]
2 2 "Mercury Retrograde" July 1, 2010 4.2[23] 7[23] 1.9/7[24] 6.777[23]
3 3 "Fite Nite" July 8, 2010 3.8[25] 7[25] 1.6/5[26] 6.224[25]
4 4 "Signals Crossed" July 15, 2010 4.0[27] 7[27] 1.8/6[28] 6.382[27]
5 5 "Broad Daylight" July 22, 2010 4.0[29] 7[29] 1.5/5[30] 6.496[29]
6 6 "Bullet Proof" July 29, 2010 4.1[31] 7[31] 1.8/6[32] 6.706[31]
7 7 "Hot and Bothered" August 5, 2010 4.2[33] 7[33] 1.8/6[34] 6.866[33]
8 8 "Honour Roll" August 12, 2010 3.7[35] 6[35] 1.7/5[36] 5.973[35]
9 9 "Girlfriend of the Year" August 19, 2010 4.0[37] 7[37] 1.7/5[38] 6.384[37]
10 10 "Big Nickel" August 26, 2010 3.8[39] 6[39] 1.7/5[40] 6.170[40]
11 11 "To Serve or Protect" September 2, 2010 3.0[41] 5[41] 1.1/3[41] 4.682[41]
12 12 "In Blue" September 9, 2010 1.2/3[42] 4.985[42]
13 13 "Takedown" September 9, 2010 1.1/3[42] 4.738[42]

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