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Riley Utley

Sheriff Country’s Morena Baccarin Opens Up About The Cool Way She Prepared For The Fire Country Spinoff

Morena Baccarin as Mickey sitting in a booth at a resturant in Sheriff Country.

There are plenty of cop shows on TV, and many of them take place in big cities – think Blue Bloods, Law & Order, Chicago PD, and so on. However, when CBS’s 2025-2026 prime time lineup kicks into high gear on the 2025 TV schedule, we’ll be getting a new small-town cop show with Sheriff Country. So, now, the star of this Fire Country spinoff, Morena Baccarin, has opened up about the cool way she prepared to play the sheriff of a small town.

For a couple of years now, there’s been talk about Fire Country expanding into a franchise, and it’s doing just that by introducing us to Edgewater, California’s sheriff’s department, in the first spinoff, Sheriff Country. While speaking to TV Insider about leading this new series, Morena Baccarin also shared how she’s been preparing to play Sheriff Mickey. And that includes riding along with officers who work in Upstate New York, as she explained:

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