TVLine Items: Fire Country Spinoff Names Showrunner, OLTL Fave Exits Y&R and More

CBS’ Fire Country spinoff has found its deputy.

Matt Lopez (ABC’s Promised Land) has been named showrunner of Sheriff Country, TVLine has confirmed.

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As previously reported, the offshoot centers on Morena Baccarin’s “straight-shooting sheriff Mickey Fox, the stepsister of Cal Fire’s division chief Sharon Leone (Fire Country‘s Diane Farr), 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.”

Sheriff Country will make its debut during the 2025-26 TV season. Our sister site Deadline was first to report Lopez’s hire.

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* Netflix has released a trailer for the four-part docuseries Simone Biles Rising, which drops Wednesday, July 17:

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