'Fire Country' Adds Olivia Thirlby as Series Regular for Season 5, First Such Addition in Show's History
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Nellie Andreeva
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CBS's drama 'Fire Country' has cast Olivia Thirlby as a new series regular for Season 5, marking the first time the show has added a regular cast member since its debut. Thirlby will play a firefighter named CJ. The season also brings a showrunner change, with Eric Guggenheim taking over from Tia Napolitano, who ran the series for its first four seasons. Both developments are notable for a broadcast series.
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· 2 pulledFire Country is getting not one but two major new additions for its upcoming fifth season.
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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