From Alex Strachan of Canwest News Service:

• Rookie Blue a harmless police diversion
  “The acting is uneven, the writing and directing aren’t particularly stylish or inspired, and you’ve seen it countless times before. Even so, Rookie Blue (Global, ABC, 9 p.m.), the new Toronto made police drama about half a dozen rookie police officers working the inner streets of Canada’s biggest city, is a harmless enough d-iversion on another wise lazy summer TV night.” Read more.

From Randee Dawn of Reuters:

• “Rookie” error: new cop show is terrible
  “You can’t ask viewers accustomed to decades of such series as “Hill Street Blues,” “Homicide: Life on the Streets” and “Southland” to buy into a police series in an unnamed town. The city is the unspoken actor in a cop show: It shapes the streets being patrolled, the people living on them and the back-story for each crime. To avoid even the invention of a faux-Gotham personality (filmed in Toronto, “Rookie” has a typical New York-by-way-of-Canada falseness that leaves a day-old coffee aftertaste) is lazy writing; even lazier than having a lead character who’s by-the-book to a fault but fails to Mirandize not one but two suspects during her first day.” Read more.

From W. Andrew Powell of The Gate:

• Review: ‘Rookie Blue’
  “Cop shows are normally not my thing, but I think I could grow to love Rookie Blue. Debuting on Global Television in Canada this Thursday, June 24 (and ABC in the U.S.), Rookie Blue introduces us to five fresh-faced new cops as they start their careers at a big city police department. Filmed in Toronto, and making great use of the city’s many picturesque locations, the show is an action-drama about five pretty rookies and what it means to carry a gun with the weight of inexperience on their shoulders.” Read more.

From the TV Addict:

• No longer in EVERWOOD anymore, we shine the spotlight on ROOKIE BLUE star Gregory Smith
  “‘As much as I loved Ephram, he was a very melancholic character that after enough time sort of seeped into my soul,’ said Smith. ‘When I went back to TV I wanted to do something where people who knew EVERWOOD wouldn’t believe I was the same person. I wanted to show how I’d grown as both an actor as a person.'” Read more.

From Fred Topel of Crave Online:

• Missy Peregrym is a Rookie
  “You loved her on Heroes and Reaper. Now Missy Peregrym is back on TV in a cop drama. Rookie Blue airs this summer on ABC, and it has the unique distinction amongst cop shows. It’s actually set in Canada. Peregrym plays one of the rookies on the rough streets up north, and previewed her new show at a roundtable with journalists on the Disney/ABC studio lot.” Read more.

From Bill Harris of QMI:

• ‘Rookie’ actor happy with ‘Dov’
  ““In this business you do everything you can to analyze things, but there’s also the superstitious perspective for me. I’ve had good luck with characters that have kind of crazy names.” Read more.

From Gayle MacDonald of the Globe and Mail:

• Rookie Blue aiming for Grey’s Anatomy, but with cops
  “The new drama Rookie Blue, which debuts in simulcast on Global and ABC on Thursday night, cheekily bills itself as Grey’s Anatomy, but with cops. And it stars five young Canadians, who play the keen, but bumbling, greenhorns of the squad.” Read more.

From Kat Angus of Canwest News Service:

• Rookie Blue stars Missy Peregrym and Gregory Smith
  “Missy Peregrym and Gregory Smith can’t stop laughing. Sitting in a Toronto hotel suite, the Rookie Blue stars are having trouble staying serious as they tease each other and crack wise.” Read more.

From Richard Huff of the NY Daily News:

• ‘Rookie Blue’ star Missy Peregrym looking to be more than just a pretty face in the business
  “Missy Peregrym, the star of ABC’s new cop drama “Rookie Blue,” says there are many times she’s considered walking away from the business.” Read more.

From Joel Keller of TV Squad:

• Missy Peregrym of ‘Rookie Blue’ Doesn’t Want to Be Famous
  “Peregrym and I talked about what she’s learned in her time in showbiz, how much she loves her ‘Rookie Blue’ character Andy McNally, and how the comparisons to ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ are fairly accurate. We also talked a little bit about ‘Reaper,’ where she played Andi, Sam’s on-again, off-again girlfriend. Let’s just say she doesn’t think the CW had much invested in promoting the show. Our talk, and some clips, after the jump.” Read more.

From the TV Addict:

• Today’s TV Addict Top 5: Questions with ROOKIE BLUE Star Missy Peregrym
  “I was so excited about what their ideas were for the show and where they wanted to take it. It’s been amazing and such a cool collaboration where everybody who is on the show really understands their character, so it’s a lot of fun to work on. I’m so grateful for it and am really proud of it.” Read more.

From Tamar Abrams of the Huffington Post:

• Everwood’s Gregory Smith Heads to ABC’s Rookie Blue Premiering Thursday
  “‘It’s hard to reinvent the wheel with a cop show. But Rookie Blue has a pure emotional center that’s not cynical. The characters are so well developed. It’s a show with heart.’ Smith plays a ‘young Jewish hipster cop’ named Dov Epstein which, he says, is a good sign since his character in the hit show Everwood was named Ephram. ‘Odd, interesting names are good to me,’ he says.” Read more.

From Gayle MacDonald of the Globe and Mail:

• Beware the ‘orpie,’ and save the cat
  “For a fly-on-the-wall invited to eavesdrop on the writers’ room of the new cop drama Rookie Blue, the enthusiastic banter among the 10 scribes around the long table sounds like a foreign tongue.” Read more.