A Guide to All of the ‘Yellowstone’ Spinoffs

The Paramount Network flagship series that began all of it began in 2018. The second half of its fifth season (season 5B) was announced as the ultimate season, with the six-episode season’s finale having aired on Dec. 15.

The formerly Costner-led cattle ranch family saga has repeatedly grown its audience, with the premiere of part one in all season five breaking rankings records and earning the most important overnight launch for the series. Yellowstone‘s record-setting return continued to tug in big audiences and closed with a series high.

After star Costner was embroiled in a standoff over his filming schedule, which delayed production, Paramount Network announced that the megahit series would end with season five. After many months of speculation, Costner finally confirmed that he had indeed departed the series. Viewers needed to tune in to see how Sheridan wrote him off the series, given the cliffhanger ending of the midseason 5A finale.

Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser, Wes Bentley, Luke Grimes and Kelsey Asbille star because the important Dutton family left to choose up the pieces. After season 5B was announced as the ultimate run, continuations with Reilly and Hauser, who play fan-favorites Beth Dutton and Rip, and Grimes, following his Kayce Dutton, were in early development (more on those, below), making it likely that the Yellowstone flagship has indeed come to an end.

Due to a licensing deal that pre-dated the Viacom-CBS merger, Yellowstone has streamed exclusively on NBCUniversal-backed Peacock (and isn’t available on Paramount+ just like the prequels are; see methods to watch the series here).

In December 2021, 1883 launched first on Paramount+ before getting a full-season run on Paramount Network that summer. The prequel series to Yellowstone was narrated by star Isabel May and followed her and co-stars Sam Elliott, Faith Hill and Tim McGraw on a Nineteenth-century wagon trail of their epic, cross-country journey before settling what would change into the Yellowstone Ranch seen within the flagship series.

The Paramount+ series was such successful out of the gate that the network ordered more episodes for the limited series and sparked the franchise’s expansion into 1923 (more on that below). After it had already been available to stream on Paramount+ for a 12 months, the Paramount Network telecast drew slightly below 5 million viewers following an episode of Yellowstone and set a premiere record for the channel. Paramount Network also launched a linear, weekly rerelease in June 2023 amid the twin strikes.

Elsa Dutton has change into the connective tissue of the franchise, as she has gone on to narrate 1923 from the grave and made a surprise voiceover appearance at the tip of the flagship’s season 5B finale.

Picking up a long time after 1883 left off, the second Yellowstone prequel series, 1923, traced more Dutton lineage to the elder Duttons played by Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren.

Creator Sheridan explained of his decision to leap the series to the 12 months 1923: “I selected that moment in time to peek back in since you’re seeing the kids that we’ve met in 1883 attempting to lift one other generation of Dutton.” The primary season ended on a cliffhanger focused across the emerging important character of the series played by Brandon Sklenar and was quickly renewed for a second season. The early twentieth century drama’s premiere became the most-watched series premiere on cable in 2022.

Season two returned two years after its season one finale, in February 2025, on Paramount+. The series aired its first trailer in the course of the Yellowstone season 5B finale, promising a cruel winter that will bring latest challenges and unfinished business to Jacob (Ford) and Cara (Mirren) back at Dutton ranch, together with adversaries threatening to finish the Dutton legacy as Spencer (Sklenar) and his separated wife Alexandra (Julia Schlaepfer) launched into arduous journeys home.

Paramount has not confirmed if 1923 will proceed on after season two, but given how the second season ended (spoilers!), the series has likely wrapped and has now paved the strategy to 1944, with lots of the surviving stars (here, here, here and here) expressing their interest in returning to the Yellowstone-verse in the following prequel saga.

When confirming the tip of Yellowstone, Paramount Network had set the wheels in motion for 2 more spinoffs. One was planned to be the first-ever Yellowstone sequel, which had the working title 2024. The current-day story would happen after the events of Yellowstone. It was given a straight-to-series order and can stream on Paramount+. The series was said to proceed exploring the Dutton family dynasty with latest characters and locations, in addition to some existing characters.

Matthew McConaughey was initially in talks to star within the series, widely reported when the Costner standoff began. Nevertheless, a deal was never announced.

Since then, the series was re-titled to The Madison and is now starring Michelle Pfeiffer. The Oscar-nominated movie star can be executive producing the spinoff series, which comes from franchise boss Sheridan and premieres on Saturday, March 14.

The Madison is described as a heartfelt study of grief and human connection following a Latest York City family within the Madison River valley of central Montana. It’s unclear if or how the series suits within the Yellowstone-verse.

Paramount+ has described the series as one in all Sheridan’s “most intimate work up to now,” revealing that the present-day set series will unfold “across two distinct worlds — the attractive landscape of Montana and the colourful energy of Manhattan — because it examines the ties that bind families together.”

The also includes Kurt Russell, Patrick J. Adams, Elle Chapman, Matthew Fox, Beau Garrett, Amiah Miller, Alaina Pollack, Ben Schnetzer, Rebecca Spence, Danielle Vasinova and Kevin Zegers.

Watch the teaser trailer:

After reports rumbled of spinning off the hit franchise under the Paramount umbrella following the Yellowstone finale, CBS officially ordered Marshals (previously titled Y: Marshals), which is able to see flagship star Luke Grimes reprising his role as Kayce Dutton.

The son to the deceased John Dutton (Costner) was given a glad ending within the season 5B finale when the Montana Livestock Commissioner finally discovered methods to free himself of his father’s legacy while giving his family a future. Wife Monica Dutton (Kelsey Asbille), nevertheless, has not been confirmed among the many solid and the brand new trailer confirms that tragedy awaits Kayce, which is almost definitely why Grimes agreed to revive Kayce after such a satisfactory ending for his character.

Son Tate (Brecken Merrill) also stars within the series, together with Yellowstone stars Gil Birmingham and Mo Brings Plenty reprising their roles as Chief Rainwater and Mo, respectively. (The latter is the Native affairs coordinator on several series within the franchise.)

Logan Marshall-Green has joined the solid as newcomer Pete Calvin, a friend from Kayce’s military service, together with Arielle Kebbel, Ash Santos, Tatanka Means and Brett Cullen.

Marshals will premiere March 1 on CBS and, per the logline, will see Kayce joining an “elite unit of U.S. Marshals, combining his skills as a cowboy and Navy SEAL to bring range justice to Montana.”

Spencer Hudnut (SEAL Team) is showrunner on the MTV Entertainment Studios and 101 Studios spinoff series and is executive producing with Sheridan, John Linson, Art Linson, Grimes, Ron Burkle, David Hutkin and Bob Yari.

Beth Dutton and Rip Wheeler are usually not riding off into the sunset yet. The fan-favorite Yellowstone couple played by Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser, respectively, are getting their very own Paramount+ spinoff series, which has the working title Dutton Ranch.

The pair have been in lively development to proceed on the Yellowstone-verse for a while. Just days ahead of the season 5B finale, multiple reports surfaced that they’d finalized deals — not for a sixth season of the flagship, which had been previously reported, but for their very own spinoff. (The news was a spoiler going into the finale that they might emerge alive.)

Reilly and Hauser had each expressed their interest in following Sheridan, who writes all episodes of Yellowstone, wherever his pen takes them. “Taylor can determine methods to absolutely proceed if he desires to,” Hauser told THR in the beginning of this season. Reilly added, “It’s as much as him. We trust him. … I trust him with wherever he takes her; whether we’re leaving her where we’ve left her, or we’re going to seek out her some other place, I trust him.” After the finale, executive producer and season 5B director Christina Voros explained how Sheridan left the door “wide open” to proceed on with Beth and Rip. Read her spoiler-filled interview with THR.

Together with Reilly and Hauser, Ed Harris, Jai Courtney and Annette Bening had joined the solid, in addition to Finn Little reprising his Yellowstone role as Beth and Rip’s adopted son, Carter. A production start has yet to be announced.

The second spinoff that had been announced with the likely end of Yellowstone was the following prequel series set in 1944 that may follow within the footsteps of 1883 and 1923. Details around this series have been scarce, nevertheless, The Hollywood Reporter spoke with several 1923 stars after the season two finale to invest about how their characters who were left alive could find their strategy to 1944. (Here, here and here.)

Sheridan, who co-created Yellowstone with John Linson and is the showrunner for the franchise, told THR in a June cover story that he had several prequel ideas brewing, though 1944 was the primary along them to get a green light.

As with the previous series, the spinoffs might be produced by MTV Entertainment Studios and 101 Studios.

Sheridan announced that the 6666 spinoff series that had been set to star Yellowstone actor Jefferson White (Jimmy) is on hold given Sheridan’s purchase of the property where the show can be filmed, the 4 Sixes ranch in Texas. (The Montana ranch in Yellowstone is fictional, however the 4 Sixes ranch, featured because the 6666 Ranch within the series, is real.) “That, for various reasons, needs a novel level of special care because this can be a real place with real families working here,” he explained in THR‘s cover story. “You have got to respect the lineage. I’ve told [the studio] to be patient.”

Sheridan owns and operates two Texas ranches, also including Bosque Ranch. He also recently opened the 4 Sixes Ranch Steakhouse in Las Vegas featuring his 4 Sixes Ranch Beef.