{"id":412738,"date":"2026-01-17T10:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T10:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/412738\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T10:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T10:32:07","slug":"fire-country-showrunner-tia-napolitano-to-depart-at-end-of-season-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/412738\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Fire Country’ Showrunner Tia Napolitano To Depart At End Of Season 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Tia Napolitano<\/a> is stepping down as showrunner of CBS<\/a>\u2018 popular drama series Fire Country<\/a> after four seasons. She will be leaving at the end of the current season and plans to focus on her own development under the overall deal she has with Fire Country producer CBS Studios. A search for a new showrunner will commence soon.<\/p>\n

\n\tNapolitano joined Fire Country, created\/executive produced by series star Max Thieriot and writers Tony Phelan and Joan Rater, right after the pilot as executive producer and showrunner and has steered the firefighter drama since. <\/p>\n

\n\tFire Country got off to a hot start, ranking as the No. 1 most-watched new series for the season it launched in, 2022-2023, and was quickly identified by CBS brass as a show with franchise potential<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tNow in its fourth season, Fire Country still regularly wins its Friday time period, averaging 8.1 million Live+35 multi-platform viewers to date. It also helped launch spinoff Sheriff Country, which is on track to repeat Fire Country\u2019s feat of being the most watched new series in its freshman season.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cTia has been instrumental in helping both build and steer Fire Country, which not only became a top series, but is also the foundation of a growing universe,\u201d CBS Entertainment President Amy Reisenbach and CBS Studios President David Stapf said in a joint statement. \u201cWe\u2019re grateful for all her contributions and tireless work, and look forward to collaborating with her on future projects.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tNapolitano, whose first TV job was as a writers assistant working for then-Grey\u2019s Anatomy showrunners Phelan and Rater, was approached for the Fire Country showrunner job early on, before the pilot was picked up to series. She has been at the helm as the series navigated the writers strike, the L.A. fires and, most recently, the departure of original cast members Billy Burke and Stephanie Arcila<\/a> at the end of last season.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI am beyond proud of the past four seasons of Fire Country,\u201d Napolitano said. \u201cAll of my gratitude to our cast, crew, writers, producers, fans, and of course CBS and CBS Studios. It\u2019s been a beautiful ride!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBefore joining Fire Country, Napolitano served as executive producer and showrunner on Freeform\u2019s Cruel Summer. Her writing-producing credits also include Grey\u2019s Anatomy and spinoff Station 19.<\/p>\n

\n\tFire Country Season 4 returns with new episodes February 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Tia Napolitano is stepping down as showrunner of CBS\u2018 popular drama series Fire Country after four seasons.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[991,88,72607,197986],"class_list":{"0":"post-412738","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-cbs","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-fire-country","11":"tag-tia-napolitano"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}