Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone is kind of like some sort of beautiful and never-ending cow: Even after expiring, it continues to grow spun-off detritus for the industrious collector to harvest and profit from. Paramount has been pretty free with the Western series’ various leavings for years at this point, having produced various historical spin-offs whose year-based names we could not, with a gun to our head and a trip to the train station in the offing, list for you right now without having to look them up. (Okay, we caved and checked: 1883 and 1923, with a future option on 1944.) (There was also another spin-off announced once upon a time called 6666, but that was about a ranch with that name in the modern day, and not about space horses pounding their hyperhooves in the far-flung future, alas.) Anyway, most of these spin-offs, presumably including the one that’s basically going to take the place of a sixth season of the since-ended flagship series, with stars Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser in the lead, have confined themselves to either cable or streaming. Now, though, it sounds like CBS might be hungry for a taste of Sheridan’s TV beef, too.
This is per Deadline, reporting that a “procedural” Yellowstone spin-off is possibly aiming at a berth on the network, centered on Luke Grimes’ character Kayce Dutton. A regular on the original show, Kayce is both a livestock co*missioner and a retired Navy SEAL; Deadline suggests that the new series might possibly focus more on the latter hat than the former. (It probably doesn’t hurt that Spencer Hudnut, of CBS’s SEAL Team, is apparently the one developing the show.) CBS, for its part, hasn’t said anything about possibly picking up a new show set in the universe, but Yellowstone has proven itself surprisingly modular in the years since it started climbing, and then dominating, the cable ratings charts.
If it goes forward, this wouldn’t actually be the first time Yellowstone has popped up on CBS: The first season of the (already massively successful) original show ran on the network during the WGA/SAG-AFTRA strikes in 2023.