EXCLUSIVE: Fire Country is getting not one but two major new additions for its upcoming fifth season. Following Eric Guggenheim’s arrival as executive producer and showrunner, the CBS firefighter drama has cast Olivia Thirlby (Oppenheimer, Y: The Last Man) as a new series regular for Season 5. She will play a new firefighter, CJ.
Both hires are significant as they mark first showrunner change on the series, which was run by Tia Napolitano for its first four seasons, and first series regular cast addition, the latter of which is highly unusual for a broadcast series.
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