‘Sheriff Country’ Lights Up CBS’ Fall Friday Nights As Audience Grows For 7 Consecutive Weeks Post-Premiere
EXCLUSIVE: CBS is already declaring the success of Sheriff Country‘s fall debut after the series grew its audience for seven consecutive weeks following its October premiere.
The series has delivered around 6.24M viewers per episode on Friday nights, according to live + same-day data from Nielsen, consistently winning its 8 p.m. time period, up 11% from last season when SWAT held that slot.
While 35-day viewership data is not yet available for the entire fall run, the first few episodes have managed to amass 11.3M viewers per episode in that window. As of now, that makes it the No. 2 new series in 35-day viewing after Boston Blue and the No. 5 broadcast series overall.
In 35-day multi-platform viewing, Sheriff Country is up 63% from SWAT, per Paramount Global, which also touts that about 4.9M viewers per episode came from streaming.
There is just one episode left before Sheriff Country takes a small midseason hiatus. The midseason finale will air on December 19.
Sheriff Country is a CBS police procedural that serves as a Fire Country spinoff, following straight-shooting sheriff Mickey Fox, the stepsister of Cal Fire’s division chief Sharon Leone (Diane Farr of Fire Country). She investigates criminal activity while she patrols the streets of small-town Edgewater, contending with her ex-con father, Wes (W. Earl Brown), who is an off-the-grid marijuana grower, and a mysterious incident involving her wayward daughter.
The spinoff is co-created by Max Theriot, Joan Rater and Tony Phelan. Matt Lopez serves as showrunner and executive produces alongside Thieriot, Phelan, Rater, and Jerry Bruckheimer and KristieAnne Reed for Jerry Bruckheimer Television. CBS Studios produces Sheriff Country.
