EXCLUSIVE: Sheriff Country returned to CBS final week with its finest viewers but.
The midseason premiere, titled “Crucible, Part 2,” scored 5.3M dwell + same-day viewers when it aired on February 27, marking an 11% enhance during the last unique airing, per preliminary Nielsen information.
That is now the sequence’ most-watched episode ever when it comes to same-day viewers.
Fire Country and Boston Blue additionally got here again Friday, boosting the community to a mean 4.43M viewers for primetime to mark a 9% enhance over the prior unique Friday (December 19, 2025).
Sheriff Country is a CBS police procedural that serves as a Fire Country spinoff, following straight-shooting sheriff Mickey Fox (Morena Baccarin), the stepsister of Cal Fire’s division chief Sharon Leone (Diane Farr of Fire Country). She investigates legal exercise whereas she patrols the streets of small-town Edgewater, contending along with her ex-con father, Wes (W. Earl Brown), who’s an off-the-grid marijuana grower, and a mysterious incident involving her wayward daughter.
The spinoff is co-created by Max Thieriot, Joan Rater and Tony Phelan. Matt Lopez serves as showrunner and government produces alongside Thieriot, Phelan, Rater, and Jerry Bruckheimer and KristieAnne Reed for Jerry Bruckheimer Television. CBS Studios produces Sheriff Country.
