Fire Country gets spin-off with frankly terrible name
It's not just us, right? Sheriff Country is a very goofy name for a television show
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Let’s start with this: Fire Country is already a pretty bad name for a TV show. Besides setting you up for potential Avatar: The Last Airbender jokes from pitiless nerds—i.e., “We were having a good night watching TV until the Fire Country attacked”—it’s also just a little on the nose. What do they do in Fire Country? Fight fires, all the time, apparently. We’ll give it this, though: At least it’s not something truly silly, like, say, Sheriff Country, a title that implies that spontaneous bouts of sheriffhood are constantly breaking out all over the place, consuming whole communities in a blaze of runaway jurisprudence.
Anyway, CBS announced today that it’s putting a TV show called Sheriff Country into development. The series, which won’t arrive on TV screens until the 2025-2026 season at the earliest, is a spin-off to Fire Country, in what we can only assume is an attempt to recreate the success of Dick Wolf’s Chicago Insert Dramatically Interesting Public Service Here franchise, except out in rural California.
Despite being very far off, though, Sheriff Country already has its star lined up: Morena Baccarin, who will always be “Firefly star Morena Baccarin” in our hearts, will play, you guessed it, “straight-shooting sheriff” Mickey Fox, who’s the step-sister of the character played by Diane Farr on Fire Country. (For some reason, that specific familial connection cracks us up: Just close enough to justify minimal crossovers, as needed, but nobody asking “Why didn’t you call your step-sister?” if something truly dramatic happens.) Baccarin has already been backdoor-piloted into the mothership series, conveniently, having played the character in an April episode of Fire Country, which is currently in its third season, and producing the kind of ratings for CBS that, well, gets a network in the mood to greenlight spin-off shows fully a year before they can actually make it to air.
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From the ads, Fire Country looks like it’s about prisoners working as fireman, so maybe Sheriff Country is about prisoners working as sheriffs?And how long is the Fire Country guy’s sentence. It seems like they have to let him out eventually.
You are correct about the premise of Fire Country. I can also confirm that is is dreadful. We watched 20 minutes of series premiere. We thought it was going to be goofy fun like 9-1-1. But the convicts and sheriffs take fighting fires in Fire Country very seriously.
Holy shit that’s a dumb premise.I might have to watch it…
If only it was dumb fun. It’s just dumb. But it thinks it’s smart and dramatic and very serious.
CBS’s older demographic might revolt if that happened. They are law and justice types*. They believe in punishing criminals. Unless of course, they pay off a pornstar they had sex with, lie about the value of their property, or try to overthrow the country.*Not law and order types, those watch NBC.
I know it’s a stereotype that old people are Republicans and young people Democrats, and yes, there is a few percentage points difference, but the fact is both groups are quite closely split across all age groups.
This is objectively untrue
Look at the numbers. With the exception of GenZ, who have just started voting, and do show a significant difference in favor of Democrats, it’s just a few percentage points either way for the others. Hell, a higher percentage of Boomers and Silents are Democrats than are Millennials! I am surprised at the large number of “Independents” at all age levels, granted.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/319068/party-identification-in-the-united-states-by-generation/
Old people who watch CBS copoganda probably skew a little more to the right than their age matched peers and I’m not one to let facts get in the way of a cheap shot or mediocre joke.
From the ads, Fire Country looks like it’s about prisoners working as fireman
Oh, it absolutely is, and apparently it’s not self-aware enough to understand how messed up that is.
It’s a real thing.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-history-of-californias-inmate-firefighter-program-180980662/
What’s the problem with that. Also, this actually happens in real life – look it up.
I’ve never watched Fire Country but when it first premiered, they use to run an ad where all the firemen were walking away from a forest blaze they put out and for some inexplicable reason, a tree just exploded like you dropped a bunker bomb. I’d laugh my ass off every time. Just a ridiculous show.
The tree exploded because it got hit by lightning.
Whoever was behind that tree must have failed not being seen.
Is it near Cougar Town?
You mean Rag Town?
Only until they hit menopause.
Just follow Copperhead Road.
Hopefully no one gets stuck.
The word “sheriff” contains “fire” backwards.
IT”S ALL CONNECTED!!
If you play the theme music backwards you can clearly hear a sheriff saying “I buried Paul.”
I remember back when the Chicagos were spawning seemingly new spinoffs every year and then FoD made “Chicago Sanitation”.I therefore suggest “Litter Country”.
Bring on State Comptroller Country.
I’m waiting for “Chicago Towing.”
Chicago DMV(well, DVS)
Chicago Town Hall: Excise Tax Division
Chicago Water Treatment Plant
As a former summer intern at the Metropolitan Water District of Greater Chicago, I will say that they have a massive tunnel system and storerooms full of handwritten operations logs, and I always hoped one of the log books would contain a reference to the Thing in Tunnel 4.
Everything changed when the Sheriff Country attacked
Someone please offer Morena Bacarin better roles.
Also, show the woman some respect and get better promotional photos because that one up above is literally the first time I’ve ever seen Morena Baccarin not look absurdly stunning.
I thought she looked like Courtney Cox, tbh.
At some point its got to be her agent or her, right?
Totally, but solo headlining a major network show, even a spinoff with a stupid title that is destined to be cancelled, carries with it a lot of oomph for her next project.
I got a Firefly notification for this?
Earth Country. Water Country, and… The Last Air Country…
Earth, Wind & Fire Country would be groovy.
They killed So Help Me Todd for this?
I’d rather watch Sheriff County
God, I miss the 90s, and that pseudo-New Agey vibe it had.
It would also make more sense as sheriffs are county-level positions. Or maybe it’d be too confusing? Idk- it really is a bad show title.
If “Country” is the sheriff’s last name, it automatically becomes the greatest title ever, though.
And if Sheriff Country’s first name is Sheriff, then you have pure Emmy gold!
Can Judge Reinhold be a guest star?
Only if he says his catchphrase!
Stop ripping off In Plain Sight!
I mean, I assume fire is the villain in the first show, so the title of the second show makes a lot of sense in that context.
The fire is the hero in its own story.
Cop Land
Cop Land was entertaining, though.
Four score and twenty years ago, our forefathers landed upon Cop Rock
“Cop Rock landed on us” – Everyone who never watches CBS.
It’s dumb, but Sheriff Country actually makes a little bit of sense. Sheriffs’ offices are the main law enforcement in rural, unincorporated areas that aren’t served by a municipal police force, so I guess “Sheriff Country” implies that it takes place in a remote area where only sheriffs have local jurisdiction. It at least makes as much sense as Fire Country.
I will always support Morena Baccarin getting more work (and she’ll always be Adria the Orici to me, sorry Browncoats). But as a fan of Fire Country (it’s fun in a stupid way), I’m not sure what the point of this series is. Fire Country at least has the unique hook of inmates doing a work-release thing as firefighters, but there’s no equivalent for inmate-deputies working at a sheriff’s office. Not sure how this will be anything but a bog-standard cop procedural. If they try to keep it close to Three Rock, then why have it be a spinoff? Just have Mickey show up regularly on Fire Country. Not every character on that show is an inmate and/or firefighter.
and she’ll always be Adria the Orici to meI’m glad I’m not the only one.
The Country Television Universe. There’s gonna be sheriffs and badges and trucks and beer and whiskey and short shorts with long, tan legs up on the dashboard and rhyming “girl” with “world” a lot and trying that in a small town and tailgatin’ parties and swimming in a river in the moonlight
But will there be any raucous shots of “YEEHAW!” or “HELL YA!”?
I was at a petting zoo with my kids and they were playing a newer country song about how much this dude loved his grandfather, but it had like a chant-along chorus and a 70s-style cock-rock guitar solo, and it was maybe the most hilariously schmaltzy thing I ever heard.
Sounds more like She’s The Sheriff Country. ba da bing! I’ll see myself out.
“Sheriff Country” sounds just fine.
I want a Sharif Country show where someone portraying the late actor Omar Sharif talks about his time in Hollywood and also tries to get us interested in playing Contract Bridge.
A challenger appears:
Now , the the Spin off show about an animal control department that specialise in flying mammals:Bat Country!..wait
Dick Wolf’s Chicago Insert Dramatically Interesting Public Service Here franchise,
Dick Wolf’s Chicago Parking Authority
No Country For Old Sheriffs