‘Fire Country’ Spinoff ‘Sheriff Country’ Adds Matt Lauria as Mickey’s Partner

CBS has a new franchise on its hands. Fire Country has been such a hit for the network, it’s no surprise that that universe is expanding. And that world is also growing beyond Morena Baccarin‘s Mickey Fox, with CSI: Vegas vet Matt Lauria joining her on the job on Sheriff Country.

It was soon after the first season that rumors started about a potential spinoff, and in its second, Fire Country introduced the character who would be leading it. Not even a month later, Sheriff Country was ordered to series, but when will it air? Will Mickey Fox appear on Fire Country again before then after her Season 3 appearance?

Read on for everything we know and keep checking back because this will be updated as more is announced.

Is there going to be a Fire Country spinoff?

Yes! The Fire Country episode introducing Baccarin’s Mickey aired on April 2, 2024, and less than a month later, on May 2, CBS officially ordered Sheriff Country to series.

When will Sheriff Country air?

The series will be part of the 2025-2026 broadcast season.

Who will star in Sheriff Country?

Baccarin will star as Sheriff Mickey Fox, as introduced in Fire Country Season 2 Episode 6. She has held the position for 15 years and knows every part of Edgewater, including its residents. She’s very protective of her town.

“Morena is the perfect addition to our players here, our cast of people. She fits in so well. There’s no drama,” Fire Country star Kevin Alejandro told TV Insider early in Season 2. “She comes in ready to work, and it’s really cool to see a new fresh sort of character on our show. She’s kind of perfect for what we’re doing.”

Joining Baccarin and W. Earl Brown as Mickey’s estranged father, Wes, as regulars are Christopher Gorham and Michele Weaver, according to Deadline. Gorham plays Mickey’s ex-husband and a lawyer, Travis, with whom she shares daughter, Skye. (Mickey’s first Fire Country episode detailed Skye’s addiction and subsequent rehab.) “Despite their many differences, Travis and Mickey might still harbor feelings for each other,” his character description teases.

Weaver’s Cassidy is a deputy in Edgewater. Mickey inspired her to join law enforcement, and while she does look up to the sheriff, now Cassie has to figure out who she’ll be as a deputy.

Matt Lauria is set to star as “Boone, Sheriff Mickey Fox’s smart, tough and capable deputy and longtime partner,” Deadline reports. “Originally from Oakland, he’s used to a different kind of policing. Their contrasting law enforcement styles makes their partnership both complex and occasionally tense.”

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How did Fire Country set up the new show?

Early on in her introduction, Mickey was revealed to be the estranged stepsister of Sharon Leone (Diane Farr). “I was so excited to get that script,” Farr told us. “They’ve been developing it for a long time, and when they told me she was going to be my sister, it was so exciting because every layer of family for a character just allows you to see a different side of them. [I thought] Morena is like a gift and would be so thrilling. And because she was going to be yet another really strong female, another strong alpha female, I thought it would be really fun if we could get to see Sharon be kind of petulant and whiny and holding a grudge. Where does she get to be the foot stomping five-year-old? So she’s a wonderful scene partner. We have the exact same way of working. We were both really excited to be there. We had hours and hours and hours just figuring it out.”

Mickey had also previously arrested Bode (Max Thieriot, who directed Season 2 Episode 6) and, during the course of the investigation that revealed one of her fellow deputies to be corrupt (and the person who killed the sheriff), trusted him enough to uncuff him and send him into the woods after a fleeing inmate.

That Fire Country episode also teased a bit about Mickey’s daughter, a freshman in college who the sheriff had tried to raise to not be like Bode but she ended up in rehab after buying drugs from someone she met online.

Baccarin then returned in Fire Country Season 3, at which point her estranged father, Wes, was introduced. Though she wants a relationship with him, since he’s a criminal and he’s a sheriff, it’s tough. And when she tried to convince him to go legit, he refused. That was left like that to set up Sheriff Country, with that her last appearance before the new show’s launch.

“I think we have to have a huge arc for those two in this series and just maintain that sort of conflict of having a father who is the epitome of everything that she’s not and what he represents versus what she represents and why she became a sheriff and the childhood that she had,” Thieriot told TV Insider in April 2025. “She had a dad who was doing things that were illegal and was exposed to things that was frankly tragic for her. And what did she do? She went and did the complete opposite when she was old enough to do it. And so I think it just creates a really unique and fun dynamic because they love each other. It’s quite complex. And what they both do only adds to that.”

What will the spinoff be about?

Sheriff Country will follow the straight-shooting Mickey who investigates criminal activity as she patrols the streets of small-town Edgewater while contending with her ex-con father and a mysterious incident involving her wayward daughter. It’s expanding on the world of Fire Country and the town of Edgewater.

Is there a Sheriff Country trailer?

Not yet.