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FIRE COUNTRY: Tia Napolitano Previews the Arrival of Jared Padalecki’s Camden

November 15, 2024 by  

FIRE COUNTRY Camden introduction

Pictured (L-R): Max Thieriot as Bode Leone, Jordan Calloway as Jake Crawford, and Jared Padalecki as Camden Casey. Photo: Eric Milner/CBS ©2024 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

FIRE COUNTRY’s Bode (Max Thieriot) meets a new ally—on and off-the-clock—on the Friday, November 15 episode, “Edgewater’s About to Get Real Cozy,” when Camden (Jared Padalecki), a boisterous SoCal firefighter, comes to town.

“It was so exciting to have Jared come and hang with us and work with us,” FIRE COUNTRY showrunner Tia Napolitano tells Give Me My Remote. “He’s wonderful. He and Max are great friends. They have great on-screen friend chemistry; I think that comes through. They had a lot of fun.”

With Bode going through a lot in his life right now—an increasingly complicated relationship with Gabriela (Stephanie Arcila), plus, trying to become a firefighter—Camden provides a different kind of shoulder than, perhaps, the people who know Bode best. “[Camden] is also an outsider to our small town, provides a lot of perspective,” Napolitano previews. “His character really encourages Bode to lean into his instincts, to go rogue, to break rules, and push limits. Which no one on our show really has. So he seems very big brother to Bode and like they’re cut from a similar cloth. So it’s always fun to add layers to this universe and think about expanding and learn more about Edgewater and the people who come and go.”

Camden’s arrival could lead to an expansion of the FIRE COUNTRY world, too: When Padalecki was cast, Deadline reported there was potential for the character to eventually headline his own spinoff. Though nothing more has been reported there, the FIRE COUNTRY writers are working on season 3 with the awareness a spinoff is coming: SHERIFF COUNTRY, which was introduced to the show’s world in a backdoor pilot last season, will bow on CBS during the 2025-26 season. 

“It’s interesting from a planning perspective,” Napolitano acknowledges of working on a current season while also accounting for a new show that won’t debut until next year. “I had a little bit of experience in that I started on GREY’S ANATOMY, and eventually I went to [that show’s spinoff] STATION 19. We were running at the same time, on the same night, in the same city, so I kind of got my feet wet in terms of how much you have to coordinate.” 

“So now, out of the gate, we’re making spreadsheets,” she continues about coordinating between FIRE and SHERIFF COUNTRY. “We’re sending writers back and forth [between the rooms]. We’re really collaborating to make sure that we’re telling one cohesive story of one universe, one small town, and not feeling like, ‘Wait a minute, they’re on two separate planets. I thought they were in the same small town of Edgewater.’”

FIRE COUNTRY, Fridays, 9/8c, CBS

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