‘Yellowstone,’ TV’s Hit Western, Will Finish Its Run After This Season

The present season of “Yellowstone,” the Western starring Kevin Costner that grew to become probably the most standard exhibits on tv, can be its final, Paramount introduced Friday.

The sequence, which airs on the Paramount Network, can be adopted by a brand new “Yellowstone” sequel — created, like the unique, by Taylor Sheridan — that may begin in December, Paramount stated. The sequel will air on the Paramount Network, a cable channel, and in a while the Paramount+ streaming platform.

“‘Yellowstone’ has been the cornerstone on which we have now launched a complete universe of worldwide hits,” Chris McCarthy, the president and chief government of Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios, which produces “Yellowstone” together with 101 Studios, stated in a press release that introduced that its last episodes could be proven beginning in November.

“Yellowstone,” which tells the saga of the Duttons, a wealthy and rowdy ranching household in Montana led by the patriarch John Dutton (Costner), is without doubt one of the largest exhibits on tv. Its Season 4 finale was the most-watched scripted program in 2022, Variety reported, with greater than 13 million viewers. And the Season 5 premiere final November exceeded that with greater than 17 million viewers, in response to Paramount.

The announcement of the top of “Yellowstone” got here amid rumors within the press of tensions between Costner and the present’s inventive crew, and reports that he wouldn’t return to the present following this season.

“Yellowstone” has typically been referred to as tv’s “red-state hit,” a label some critics have referred to as too simplistic. (Sheridan informed The USA Prime Time in 2019 that “The people who find themselves calling it a red-state present have in all probability by no means watched it.”) But it has attracted consideration for telling tales from part of America that’s underrepresented in Hollywood programming.

Paramount launched information earlier in its run suggesting that it was hottest within the South and in the middle of the country. But its demographic attain is wider, a dynamic Friday’s announcement alluded to when it talked about the present’s “passionate viewers from the center of the nation to every of the coasts.”

Before he grew to become certainly one of TV’s most prolific creators, Sheridan was finest generally known as a screenwriter — his screenplay for the Western function movie “Hell or High Water” was nominated for an Academy Award in 2017. His different sequence, which run on Paramount+, embody the “Yellowstone” prequels “1883” (starring the real-life couple Tim McGraw and Faith Hill) and “1923” (Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren) in addition to the crime dramas “Tulsa King” (Sylvester Stallone) and “Mayor of Kingstown” (Jeremy Renner).

McCarthy stated within the assertion that he was assured that the still-untitled sequel could be “one other huge hit.”