EXCLUSIVE: Sheriff Country returned to CBS last week with its best audience yet.
The midseason premiere, titled “Crucible, Part 2,” scored 5.3M live + same-day viewers when it aired on February 27, marking an 11% increase over the last original airing, per preliminary Nielsen data.
That is now the series’ most-watched episode ever in terms of same-day viewers.
Fire Country and Boston Blue also came back Friday, boosting the network to an average 4.43M viewers for primetime to mark a 9% increase over the prior original Friday (December 19, 2025).
Sheriff Country is a CBS police procedural that serves as a Fire Country spinoff, following straight-shooting sheriff Mickey Fox (Morena Baccarin), the stepsister of Cal Fire’s division chief Sharon Leone (Diane Farr of Fire Country). She investigates criminal activity while she patrols the streets of small-town Edgewater, contending with her ex-con father, Wes (W. Earl Brown), who is an off-the-grid marijuana grower, and a mysterious incident involving her wayward daughter.
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The spinoff is co-created by Max Thieriot, Joan Rater and Tony Phelan. Matt Lopez serves as showrunner and executive produces alongside Thieriot, Phelan, Rater, and Jerry Bruckheimer and KristieAnne Reed for Jerry Bruckheimer Television. CBS Studios produces Sheriff Country.