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EXCLUSIVE: For a mini municipality pinch organization of conscionable 25,000, Edgewater has a ample TV footprint, which whitethorn beryllium getting moreover bigger. The fictional Northern California location of CBS’ Fire Country and its spinoff Sheriff Country would besides beryllium nan mounting of a imaginable 3rd bid successful nan franchise, which is successful very early stages of development, I hear.
The untitled drama, an beingness description of Fire Country and Sheriff Country, would beryllium pursuing a aesculapian squad successful nan municipality of Edgewater, California. The thought is for a characteristic from it to beryllium perchance planted connected nan upcoming 2nd play of Sheriff Country, sources said.
The Untitled Edgewater Medical Drama is truthful nascent, I perceive it’s yet to beryllium officially sounded to CBS and nan workplace down nan Fire Country franchise, CBS TV Studios. Because of really early successful nan process it is, it is unclear yet who would beryllium penning it, I hear.
The imaginable offshoot is executive produced by Sheriff Country showrunner/executive shaper Matt Lopez; Fire Country and Sheriff Country co-creators/executive producers Max Thieriot, who headlines nan mothership, Joan Rater and Tony Phelan; arsenic good arsenic franchise executive producers Jerry Bruckheimer and KristieAnne Reed of Jerry Bruckheimer Television.
At nan extremity of Fire Country‘s breakout first play successful 2023, then-CBS President and CEO George Cheeks signaled plans to move nan firefighter play into a franchise. Months later, nan lead characteristic of what became Sheriff Country, played by Morena Baccarin, was planted successful a Season 2 section of Fire Country. The offshoot was picked up to series, which launched this past fall.
At nan extremity of Sheriff Country‘s breakout first season, CBS and CBS Studios are taking a page retired of nan aforesaid playbook pinch nan projected caller spinoff.
Because of its taxable matter, nan mothership Fire Country has featured a number of first responders and different aesculapian professionals arsenic impermanent characters done nan years. It hasn’t been decided yet whether nan imaginable offshoot would travel 1 of them aliases a caller character, I hear.
If nan spinoff comes to fruition, Fire Country will subordinate an elite group of CBS titles that person spawned franchises of 3 aliases much bid that includes NCIS, CSI, FBI, The Good Wife, The Big Bang Theory.
CBS and CBS Studios antecedently explored a different Fire Country spinoff starring Jarred Padalecki. Tentatively titled Fire Country: Surfside, it aimed astatine keeping nan firefighter play format, moving it to different metropolis successful nan vein of nan CSI franchising.
Now successful Season 4, Fire Country ranked arsenic nan No.1 astir watched caller bid of its freshman season. Sheriff Country ranks arsenic nan No.2 caller bid of its existent freshman play only down different CBS play breakout, Marshals. Both “Country” shows person already been renewed for 2026-27.
