‘Fire Country’ Bosses Share How They Landed on ‘Sheriff Country’ as Their First Spinoff

When “Fire Country” returns for Season 4 on Friday, it will be accompanied by a spinoff in the form of “Sheriff Country” — also set in Edgewater. For original series co-creators Joan Rater, Tony Phelan and Max Thieriot, it just made sense to keep things in the family.

“We understood how much the audience was responding to this small town and this community and this sense of family, really the themes of what ‘Fire Country’ is at its core. A big thing was trying to figure out a way to to do something new and different in that same world,” Thieriot told TheWrap ahead of premiere night. “In the same way that…