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EXCLUSIVE: Sheriff Country executive shaper and showrunner Matt Lopez has signed an wide woody pinch CBS Studios, nan workplace down nan breakout CBS play series.
Under nan multi-year pact, Lopez will proceed successful his domiciled astatine nan helm of nan Fire Country spinoff while besides processing different projects for nan studio. That includes nan untitled Edgewater aesculapian play offshoot successful nan works, which is group successful nan aforesaid beingness arsenic Fire Country and Sheriff Country. Lopez is penning and executive producing nan project, executive produced by nan franchise’s stewards Max Thieriot, Joan Rater and Tony Phelan, co-creators of Fire Country and Sheriff Country, and Jerry Bruckheimer TV’s Jerry Bruckheimer and KristieAnne Reed.
Sheriff Country, starring Morena Baccarin, is wrapping its first play arsenic nan #2 caller broadcast show of 2025-26 down CBS’ Marshals, averaging astir 11 cardinal viewers per section (35-day multi-platform viewing.) Already renewed for Season 2, Sheriff Country‘s Season 1 finale airs May 22.
Before taking nan reins of Sheriff Country aft nan spinoff was ordered to bid disconnected of a Fire Country backdoor aviator episode, Lopez was nan creator and showrunner of nan ABC/Hulu play bid Promised Land. His characteristic penning credits see HBO Max’s original Father of nan Bride, from Warner Bros., and respective Disney movies, including The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and Race to Witch Mountain. Lopez, a erstwhile DreamWorks biz affairs exec and alum of nan Disney Writers Program, is repped by CAA, Lit Entertainment Group and Lichter Grossman Nichols.
