Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone universe is eying further expansion beyond Paramount Network and Paramount+. A potential new offshoot would air on sibling broadcast network CBS.
No deals are believed to be n place for the procedural, which started hitting the rumor mill a month or so ago. Just like it did back then, CBS would not comment to Deadline on the prospect of an original Yellowstone series on the network. According to Puck, the new series would star Yellowstone‘s Luke Grimes reprising his role as livestock commissioner and former Navy Seal Kayce.
If it comes to fruition, the new offshoot would join another Yellowstone spinoff series, headlined by Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser, which was announced last December.
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This would mark a return of the Yellowstone universe to CBS, which carried the first seasons of the mothership series during the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. The network also is in business with Sheridan on the upcoming music competition series The Road.
This also fits into the overarching Paramount Global corporate cross-platform strategy. The NCIS franchise, which originated on CBS, now will have its first spinoff on Paramount+ in addition to the ongoing broadcast series.
Grimes’ Kayce is Beth Dutton’s (Reilly) younger brother. In the Ywllowstone series finale, Kayce signs the entire land over to Rainwater and his tribe for $1.25 an acre, the price he says 1883’s James Dutton (Tim McGraw) paid when the family settled there. The sale is conditional: the sprawling land can never be developed, and Kayce, wife Monica (Kelsey Asbille) and son Tate (Brecken Merrill) will stay on a small parcel where they’ve built a house and will remain there.
Yellowstone was co-created by Sheridan and John Linson who executive produce with Art Linson, Costner, David C. Glasser, Bob Yari, Stephen Kay, Michael Friedman, Christina Voros and Keith Cox. The series is distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution.
Coming up is the Yellowstone franchise’s first contemporary spinoff, The Madison, starring Michelle Pfeiffer. Prequel series include 1883 and 1923.
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