‘Hearth Country’ Jog-Off ‘Sheriff Country’ Picked Up by CBS for 2025-2026 TV Season
CBS has given an early series expose to “Sheriff Country,” a brand unusual drag-off of hit Ogle network drama “Hearth Country.” But in preference to airing the point to subsequent tumble or midseason, CBS plans to assign “Sheriff Country” for the 2025-2026 TV season.
The point to comes out of a “Hearth Country” backdoor pilot that aired on April 12 as the episode “Alert the Sheriff.” In that episode and in the series, Morena Baccarin (“Place of birth”) stars as “straight-taking pictures sheriff Mickey Fox,” the stepsister of “Hearth Country’s” Cal Hearth division chief Sharon Leone (Diane Farr). Per the logline, Mickey “investigates prison articulate as she patrols the streets of minute-town Edgewater while contending along side her ex-con father and a mysterious incident titillating her wayward daughter.”
Tony Phelan and Joan Rater are writing the principle “Sheriff Country” episode, with chronicle by Phelan, Rater and Max Thieriot. Govt producers are Thieriot, Phelan, Rater, and Jerry Bruckheimer and KristieAnne Reed for Jerry Bruckheimer TV. Like “Hearth Country,” the drag-off comes from CBS Studios.
CBS Entertainment president Amy Reisenbach equipped the series expose on Thursday, as the network equipped its 2024-2025 time table and its upcoming programming plans. Reisenbach mentioned the early, early series expose is an example of how the network is mixing up its programming vogue strategy.
“As we’ve mentioned time and again, we develop prolonged-term vogue at CBS now,” Reisenbach told newshounds. “‘Sheriff Country’ is hot. It’s so hot that we’ve made up our minds to develop our first series pickup for 25-26 and ‘Sheriff Country’ will seemingly be a half of the time table subsequent year as our series buy up. This can even fair give us a good deal of time to solid it, to resolve out how we want to blueprint it, give us scheduling time, advertising and marketing time. It’s a huge different for us and it basically speaks to the form of vogue we want to be doing appropriate now.”
CBS had already picked up a Season 3 of “Hearth Country,” which stars Thieriot along side Farr, Billy Burke, Kevin Alejandro, Stephanie Arcila, Jordan Calloway, and Jules Latimer. Thieriot co-created the series along side Phelan and Rater.
