Morena Baccarin’s Fire Country Spinoff Ordered to Series at CBS
CBS is officially firing up Sheriff Country. It will just be a while until you see it.
As part of its full 2024-25 TV schedule reveal on Thursday, CBS announced that the Morena Baccarin-led Fire Country spinoff has been ordered to series — but won’t debut until the 2025-26 TV season.
The offshoot’s official synopsis tells us that Baccarin “stars as straight-shooting sheriff Mickey Fox, the stepsister of Cal Fire’s division chief Sharon Leone (Fire Country‘s Diane Farr), who investigates criminal activity as she patrols the streets of small-town Edgewater while contending with her ex-con father and a mysterious incident involving her wayward daughter.”
Sheriff Country: Everything We Know
What did we learn about Mickey when the character debuted in the April 12, not-a-backdoor pilot (but totally was) episode of Fire Country? Well as noted above, she is none other than Sharon’s stepsister, by way of Mickey’s dad years ago being (briefly) married to Sharon’s mom. Also, Mickey has a daughter, Skye, who should be a freshman in college but is actually/kinda quietly in rehab, which Mickey eventually shared with Sharon.
Mickey and Sharon had been estranged for years, due to the fact that lawman Mickey had a young Bode arrested for stealing; Sharon in turn came to blame Mickey for how Bode’s life of addiction and incarceration turned out. But by the end of the April 12 Fire Country episode, the steps had made amends.
In a TVLine poll, 63% said that they would “definitely” watch Sheriff Country, while 25% said “maybe” (depending on who else gets cast). The other 12% were a big nope.
The Sheriff Country premiere episode is being written by Fire Country co-creators Tony Phelan and Joan Rater, with story by Phelan, Rater and Fire Country co-creator/star Max Thieriot. Thieriot, Phelan and Rater will serves as exec producers alongside Jerry Bruckheimer and KristieAnne Reed.
