EXCLUSIVE: Sheriff Nation returned to CBS final week with its greatest viewers but.
The midseason premiere, titled “Crucible, Half 2,” scored 5.3M dwell + same-day viewers when it aired on February 27, marking a 11% enhance over the past authentic airing, per preliminary Nielsen knowledge.
That’s now the collection’ most-watched episode ever by way of same-day viewers.
Hearth Nation 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 authentic Friday (December 19, 2025).
Sheriff Nation is a CBS police procedural that serves as a Hearth Nation spinoff, following straight-shooting sheriff Mickey Fox (Morena Baccarin), the stepsister of Cal Hearth’s division chief Sharon Leone (Diane Farr of Hearth Nation). 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 Theriot, 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 Tv. CBS Studios produces Sheriff Nation.
