Get prepared for extra towering infernos and messy interpersonal drama, Fire Country followers!
CBS introduced at this time that the hit collection has been renewed for a 3rd season.
The information was revealed in a press launch wherein the community boasted of Fire Country’s spectacular rankings.
“Fire Country is averaging 9.21 million viewers in live 7-day multiplatform viewing, up 7% from last year,” the announcement reads.
“Streaming viewership has more than doubled — Fire Country is a top six series on Paramount+ and ranked as the #4 drama on the service in the month of February,” it continues.
“It is averaging 7.76 million viewers this season in linear viewing (Nielsen, Live+7). The series is a time period winner and a key part of CBS’ dominant Friday night lineup.”
The assertion additionally features a reminder that Theriot is one of the present’s creators and govt producers (he is like a muscular Orson Welles. Call him Orseon Swells!), in addition to the next logline:
“Fire Country stars Max Thieriot, as Bode Donovan, a younger convict in search of redemption and a shortened jail sentence by becoming a member of a jail launch firefighting program in Northern California, the place he and different inmates are partnered with elite firefighters to extinguish large, unpredictable wildfires throughout the area.
“It’s a high-risk, high-reward project, and the warmth is turned up when Bode is assigned to this system in his rural hometown, the place he was as soon as a golden all-American son – till his troubles started.
“Years ago, Bode burned down everything in his life, leaving town with a big secret. Now he’s back, with the rap sheet of a criminal and the audacity to believe in a chance for redemption.”
If that does not lure you in, we do not know what is going to!
The present itself was additionally a high-risk, high-reward proposition forward of its first season.
Sure, first responder dramas are all the fad today, however would Middle America tune right into a present that asks viewers to root for convicted criminals?
And that is no The Fugitive state of affairs — Bode and most of his fellow convicts have certainly performed the crimes for which they’re now doing time.
It’s a testomony to the present’s solid and writing workers that it has been in a position to win over such a large viewers in spite of a doubtlessly thorny premise.
After early considerations that Fire Country Season 2 was veering a bit an excessive amount of into nighttime cleaning soap territory, the present appears to have discovered its footing (and pumped the brakes on the melodrama).
Coming up with contemporary emergency situations and regularly interweaving the life-or-death drama with the interpersonal conflicts is not any straightforward feat, however Fire Country manages to tug it off week after week.
We stay up for seeing what’s in retailer for Bode and firm within the present’s third season.
What do you suppose, Fire Country followers? Are you enthusiastic about one other spherical of five-alarm drama?
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