EXCLUSIVE: For a small town with population of just 25,000, Edgewater has a large TV footprint, which may be getting even bigger. The fictional Northern California location of CBS’ Fire Country and its spinoff Sheriff Country would also be the setting of a possible third series in the franchise, which is in very early stages of development, I hear.
The untitled drama, an universe expansion of Fire Country and Sheriff Country, would be following a medical team in the town of Edgewater, California. The idea is for a character from it to be potentially planted on the upcoming second season of Sheriff Country, sources said.
The Untitled Edgewater Medical Drama is so nascent, I hear it’s yet to be officially pitched to CBS and the studio behind the Fire Country franchise, CBS Studios. Because of how early in the process it is, it is unclear yet who would be writing it, I hear.
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The potential offshoot is executive produced by Sheriff Country showrunner/executive producer Matt Lopez; Fire Country and Sheriff Country co-creators/executive producers Max Thieriot, who headlines the mothership, Joan Rater and Tony Phelan; as well as franchise executive producers Jerry Bruckheimer and KristieAnne Reed of Jerry Bruckheimer Television.
At the end of Fire Country‘s breakout first season in 2023, then-CBS President and CEO George Cheeks signaled plans to turn the firefighter drama into a franchise. Months later, the lead character of what became Sheriff Country, played by Morena Baccarin, was planted in a Season 2 episode of Fire Country. The offshoot was picked up to series, which launched this past fall.
At the end of Sheriff Country‘s breakout first season, CBS and CBS Studios are taking a page out of the same playbook with the proposed new spinoff.F
Because of its subject matter, the mothership Fire Country has featured a number of first responders and other medical professionals as guest characters through the years. It hasn’t been decided yet whether the potential offshoot would follow one of them or a new character, I hear.
If the spinoff comes to fruition, Fire Country will join an elite group of CBS titles that have spawned franchises of three or more series that includes NCIS, CSI, FBI, The Good Wife, The Big Bang Theory.
CBS and CBS Studios previously explored a different Fire Country spinoff starring Jarred Padalecki. Tentatively titled Fire Country: Surfside, it aimed at keeping the firefighter drama format, moving it to another city in the vein of the CSI franchising.
Now in Season 4, Fire Country ranked as the No.1 most watched new series of its freshman season. Sheriff Country ranks as the No.2 new series of its current freshman season only behind another CBS drama breakout, Marshals. Both “Country” shows have already been renewed for 2026-27.