Jared Padalecki sets first TV role since Walker cancellation with Fire Country guest arc

Jared Padalecki won't be off the airwaves for long.

Less than three months after his CW crime drama Walker was canceled, Padalecki has nabbed a new role on CBS' Fire Country.

Entertainment Weekly has confirmed that the former Supernatural star will play Camden for a three-episode guest arc during Fire Country's upcoming third season. According to Deadline Hollywood, which first reported the news, Camden is a "SoCal firefighter and maverick with a surfer swagger who is a force to be reckoned with and immediately recognizes Bode's (Max Thieriot) raw talent."

Fire Country — which also stars Billy Burke, Kevin Alejandro, Diane Farr, Stephanie Arcila, Jordan Calloway and Jules Latimer — follows Thieriot's Bode, a young convict who joins a firefighting program looking for redemption and a shortened prison sentence. Season 3 lights up the small screen starting Oct. 18.

The Fire Country role may not be the only one Padalecki has coming up, though. The Boys creator Eric Kripke, who worked with Padalecki on Supernatural, told EW not long before Walker's cancellation that he'd been in communication with the actor for some type of role on his hit superhero satire.

"Texts have been sent," Kripke said in May. "I feel like it would be a bummer to not have Jared on the show one way or another at this point, even if it's just the one-episode thing. He's been shooting Walker, but with that show wrapping up, maybe he'll have some time to come in and play with us. I would love it. We have definitely talked about it."

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In a different interview, Kripke later provided another positive update to EW, saying, "We both have now seen that it looks like our schedules will line up. I don't have the role for him yet just because we haven't cooked it up. We're still really early in the season 5 break, but it does seem like the planets are aligning. Barring any unforeseen disaster, it seems like it'll happen. Again, I don't know what the character is, I don't know if it's one episode or more, I genuinely know a total of zero about all of that. I'm not being coy. I really don't know."

For his part, Padalecki told Deadline that he's spoken to Kripke about The Boys, and his "answer is yes" should he be officially asked to join that show in the future. A role on the Prime Video series could potentially see him share the screen once more with his Supernatural brother Jensen Ackles, who played the pivotal role of Soldier Boy in season 3 of The Boys.