Fire Country will check back in with Morena Baccarin‘s character Mickey before her spinoff, Sheriff Country, debuts on CBS.
“We’re still finding how Mickey comes back into our world, but it has to be organic and tied to Sharon, but tied to a little bit all of our characters and especially Bode [Max Thieriot],” executive producer Tia Napolitano told TV Insider on Wednesday, October 23. “There will be story purposes for why she’s in our world and what we’re giving her before we officially launch her for Sheriff Country episode 1. So it’s very exciting.”
Napolitano noted that there is “nothing set in stone yet” about meeting anyone else from Sheriff Country.
“What’s great is to know Edgewater is to love Edgewater and we get to see more Edgewater. It’s so geographically specific and small town specific and there’s going to be another spinoff set in the same world, so it can be multifaceted,” she continued. “We can send characters back and forth. It just feels like we’re layering this beautiful world and bringing a lot more texture to every week here at Fire Country and every week on Sheriff Country, too.”
The town of Edgewater was introduced when Fire Country premiered in 2022 with Bode returning home and volunteering for the California Conservation Camp Program during season 1 of the hit show. In season 2, a Sheriff Country backdoor pilot aired in April 2024, receiving a straight-to-series order one month later.
Sheriff Country will center around Mickey as she investigates criminal activity and patrols the streets of her small town while contending with her ex-con father and a mysterious incident involving her wayward daughter.
The spinoff series isn’t expected to premiere until the 2025-2026 season.
“I’m really excited about it. I can tell you that personally that I’m really proud of what we’ve done so far,” Thieriot, 36, exclusively told Us Weekly about the upcoming CBS show earlier this month. “I’m only getting bits and pieces of where [the writers’ room] is at right now in the season 1 conversation. But I can tell you that what I’ve seen and what I know and have been a part of is very exciting.”
Thieriot, who is an executive producer on Sheriff Country, said the show is really coming together, adding, “[The writers’ room] excitement level has been very high. So I know when they’re feeling really good about everything and they’re really excited about some stuff that the room is working on, it’s going to be good. It’s going to be a really fun yin to our yang in a weird way.”
He concluded: “We get to see a different part of Edgewater and get to meet different characters who live in this town and this community that we wouldn’t normally meet. Just getting to see a different side of the town is going to be really fun. It’s going to give us a more complete understanding of this community and this town and these people. I just think it’s going to make the world feel more whole in a weird way.”