CBS has a brand new franchise on its arms. Fireplace Nation has been such successful for the community, it’s no shock that that universe is increasing. And that world can also be rising past Morena Baccarin‘s Mickey Fox, with Christopher Gorham and Michele Weaver additionally sequence regulars on Sheriff Nation.
It was quickly after the primary season that rumors began a few potential spinoff, and in its second, Fireplace Nation launched the character who can be main it. Not even a month later, Sheriff Nation was ordered to sequence, however when will it air? Will Mickey Fox seem on Fireplace Nation once more earlier than then after her Season 3 look?
Learn on for all the pieces we all know and hold checking again as a result of this can be up to date as extra is introduced.
Is there going to be a Fireplace Nation spinoff?
Sure! The Fireplace Nation episode introducing Baccarin’s Mickey aired on April 2, 2024, and fewer than a month later, on Might 2, CBS formally ordered Sheriff Nation to sequence.
When will Sheriff Nation air?
The sequence can be a part of the 2025-2026 broadcast season.
Who will star in Sheriff Nation?
Baccarin will star as Sheriff Mickey Fox, as launched in Fireplace Nation Season 2 Episode 6. She has held the place for 15 years and is aware of each a part of Edgewater, together with its residents. She’s very protecting of her city.
“Morena is the right addition to our gamers right here, our forged of individuals. She suits in so effectively. There’s no drama,” Fireplace Nation star Kevin Alejandro advised TV Insider early in Season 2. “She is available in able to work, and it’s actually cool to see a brand new contemporary form of character on our present. She’s form of excellent for what we’re doing.”
Becoming a member of Baccarin and W. Earl Brown as Mickey’s estranged father, Wes, as regulars are Christopher Gorham and Michele Weaver, in accordance with Deadline. Gorham performs Mickey’s ex-husband and a lawyer, Travis, with whom she shares daughter, Skye. (Mickey’s first Fireplace Nation episode detailed Skye’s dependancy and subsequent rehab.) “Regardless of their many variations, Travis and Mickey may nonetheless harbor emotions for one another,” his character description teases.
Weaver’s Cassidy is a deputy in Edgewater. Mickey impressed her to hitch legislation enforcement, and whereas she does look as much as the sheriff, now Cassie has to determine who she’ll be as a deputy.
How did Fireplace Nation arrange the brand new present?
Early on in her introduction, Mickey was revealed to be the estranged stepsister of Sharon Leone (Diane Farr). “I used to be so excited to get that script,” Farr advised us. “They’ve been creating it for a very long time, and once they advised me she was going to be my sister, it was so thrilling as a result of each layer of household for a personality simply means that you can see a special aspect of them. [I thought] Morena is sort of a reward and can be so thrilling. And since she was going to be yet one more actually sturdy feminine, one other sturdy alpha feminine, I assumed it might be actually enjoyable if we may get to see Sharon be form of petulant and whiny and holding a grudge. The place does she get to be the foot stomping five-year-old? So she’s a beautiful scene associate. We now have the very same manner of working. We had been each actually excited to be there. We had hours and hours and hours simply figuring it out.”
Mickey had additionally beforehand arrested Bode (Max Thieriot, who directed Season 2 Episode 6) and, in the course of the course of the investigation that exposed one in all her fellow deputies to be corrupt (and the one that killed the sheriff), trusted him sufficient to uncuff him and ship him into the woods after a fleeing inmate.
That Fireplace Nation episode additionally teased a bit about Mickey’s daughter, a freshman in school who the sheriff had tried to lift to not be like Bode however she ended up in rehab after shopping for medicine from somebody she met on-line.
Baccarin then returned in Fireplace Nation Season 3, at which level her estranged father, Wes, was launched. Although she needs a relationship with him, since he’s a felony and he’s a sheriff, it’s robust. And when she tried to persuade him to go legit, he refused. That was left like that to arrange Sheriff Nation, with that her final look earlier than the brand new present’s launch.
“I feel we now have to have an enormous arc for these two on this sequence and simply preserve that form of battle of getting a father who’s the epitome of all the pieces that she’s not and what he represents versus what she represents and why she grew to become a sheriff and the childhood that she had,” Thieriot advised TV Insider in April 2025. “She had a dad who was doing issues that had been unlawful and was uncovered to issues that was frankly tragic for her. And what did she do? She went and did the exact opposite when she was sufficiently old to do it. And so I feel it simply creates a extremely distinctive and enjoyable dynamic as a result of they love one another. It’s fairly complicated. And what they each do solely provides to that.”
What’s going to the spinoff be about?
Sheriff Nation will comply with the straight-shooting Mickey who investigates felony exercise as she patrols the streets of small-town Edgewater whereas contending along with her ex-con father and a mysterious incident involving her wayward daughter. It’s increasing on the world of Fireplace Nation and the city of Edgewater.
Is there a Sheriff Nation trailer?
Not but.