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.”
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.
I’ll watch. I hope they are not as cruel to the characters as they are to the ones on Fire Country though.
I’m just in shock that Morena Baccarin’s character has a college-age daughter. *feels what’s left of my hair turning gray*
Loved her in Gotham but wasn’t overly impressed with her on Fire Country, which is one of the most poorly acted shows on CBS, in my opinion. This spot would have been safer for the network if it had kept Todd.
The fire scenes are the stars of Fire Country. Non fire related acting scenes just aren’t that important.
She was great…and hopefully the story of ine will improve..so disappointed in Jerry for the poor story line and actors..compared to his other work fire country gets a 2…
Great news.
I’m gonna say it….. I’m giving this ONE season. It’ll all depend on WHO they get to costar with her, cause (I’m sorry) she can’t hold a series alone. She needs a strong actor/actress to help carry the scenes. I’ll watch (cause I’m a sucker for CBS dramas no matter how bad they are) but I’m not holding my breath.
This is great news. Lots of potential there. Looking forward to it.
Wow why so far out? I wonder if they’re going to have her character pop up in more episodes of Fire Country (maybe alongside a couple other future regulars of the sheriff show) to build audience familiarity? I feel like that’s how Chicago PD spun off…we met a bunch of the cop characters first on Chicago Fire.
Honestly I don’t think CBS could pull anything else off next year’s schedule without incurring serious viewer wrath.
That said, it wouldn’t surprise me if SWAT’s uncancellation is because they’d already made the decision and put NCIS: Hawai’i’s cancellation in motion (destroyed a set or something) and they’d signed stuff for Sheriff Country, but something else came up for someone they’d signed and it was easier to push Sheriff Country a year and give them time and budget to navigate stuff like sharing sets with Fire Country, effects to match etc. and avoid some form of breach of contract penalty, and run another season of SWAT with budget Chris and budget Street, Tan as 2IC and hold on to Shemar Moore while they find him another vehicle, then replace it next year when they can run both Fire Country and Sheriff Country on the same night.
Lol budget Chris and budget Street are right on the nose.
Sounds good
Meh. I like Morena B but have to admit Fire Country has just become too hokey so I can’t imagine this spinoff will be any better.
Kinda done with CBS and spinoffs, and as shows I have watched are ending or cancelled just don’t care to start watching a new show on any of the major networks. Much better shows and storylines on streamers these days.
they cancelled Todd and CSI for a spinoff of a 1 and a half year old TV show
So – CBS is ok spinning off another show – same old stuff – but won’t renew a unique, funny, family show with good ratings like So Help Me Todd. Big NOPE for me.
I am just waiting for this to end up being a show about the daughter in rehab and Mickey just being part of an ensemble, because there is no way Edgewater supports a murder of the week procedural without getting unrealistic even faster than Fire Country has.
I think the only shows with more over the top and then there were ninjas disasters are like, Home and Away and the occasional telenovela.
They still need to think up a new title. Sheriff Country does not have the same ring to it as Fire Country.