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Don’t say goodbye to the Dutton family just yet.
After the neo-Western drama Yellowstone concluded with its fifth season in 2024, the Duttons will soon return to our screens yet again through a sequel dubbed Y: Marshals, which joins an existing slate of prequels and spin-offs. Brand-new characters are also expected to soon join the Taylor Sheridan universe, thanks to Paramount greenlighting projects like 6666 and The Madison. For a full rundown of all the shows within the world of Yellowstone, we listed them in a handy timeline below.
1883
Three years after Yellowstone’s premiere, showrunner Taylor Sheridan expanded the Dutton dynasty lore by releasing 1883. The drama series centers around the Duttons’ 19th-century ancestors, who leave their home in Tennessee to venture west, eventually settling Yellowstone Ranch in Montana.
The series stars country music legends Tim McGraw and Faith Hill as James Dillard Dutton and Margaret Dutton, the great grandparents of Yellowstone’s John Dutton III. Isabel May plays Elsa Dutton, James and Margaret’s free-spirited teen daughter. Elsa narrates much of 1883, and her voice later returns to narrate the follow-up Yellowstone prequel, 1923.
The show featured one 10-episode season and was not renewed for a second season. Sheridan opened up about his motivation for the show in a 2022 interview with Deadline. “To play with structure that way, felt like a new rollercoaster ride for an audience, and hopefully a really reflective and beautiful one,” he said. “We wanted to make a ten-hour movie that ended, and that’s what we did.”
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Lawmen: Bass Reeves
Inspired by the real-life Bass Reeves—one of the first Black deputy U.S. marshals who worked west of the Mississippi River—Sheridan returned to the Yellowstone cinematic universe to tell the little-known story of a Western icon. David Oyelowo stars as the titular marshal, with the show covering the breadth of his life starting from his enslavement at the hands of a Texan colonel to Bass facing down a cannibalistic slave catcher known as Mr. Sundown. The Duttons don’t make a cameo in this series, but the show is still technically set in the same world that the family exists within—preceding the events of 1883 by nearly 20 years.
While a second season for Lawmen: Bass Reeves hasn’t been greenlit, Oyelowo expressed that he’d be open to returning to the role during a 2024 interview with ScreenRant. “The more people ask for more Lawmen: Bass Reeves, the sooner it’ll happen, I think,” he said. “I loved, loved, loved playing that role. To saddle up again is something I’m open to, so you never know.”
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1923
The second Yellowstone sequel focuses on the Dutton family during the early 20th century as they experience a wave of life-altering and historical events, from the Prohibition era to the Great Depression. Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren lead the show as Jacob and Cara Dutton, a childless couple who raised Jacob’s nephews, John and Spencer.
The show ultimately ran for two seasons, with the second premiering in 2025.
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6666
Paramount first announced 6666, a Yellowstone spinoff starring Jefferson White as rancher Jimmy Hurdstram, back in 2021. The show would take place at the historic and real-life 6666 (or Four Sixes) Ranch in Texas. The official synopsis reads:
“Founded when Comanches still ruled West Texas, no ranch in America is more steeped in the history of the West than the 6666. Still operating as it did two centuries before, and encompassing an entire county, the 6666 has inspired a new scripted series where the rule of law and the laws of nature merge in a place where the most dangerous thing one does is the next thing. The 6666 is synonymous with the merciless endeavor to raise the finest horses and livestock in the world, and ultimately where world-class cowboys are born and made.”
As of writing, no premiere date has been set. Sheridan, who acquired the 6666 Ranch in 2021, previously explained that the sensitive circumstances surrounding the property is why the show has yet to start production. “That, for a number of reasons, needs a unique level of special care because this is a real place with real families working here,” he told the Hollywood Reporter in 2023. “You have to respect the lineage. I’ve told [the studio] to be patient.”
1944
Two decades after the events of 1923, the Duttons will return with 1944, a brand-new Yellowstone prequel that picks up in the midst of World War II. While not many details are yet known about 1944’s plot, it’s possible that the show’s protagonist may be John Dutton II, the father of Yellowstone protagonist John Dutton III. Spencer Dutton, who was played by Brandon Sklenar in 1923, may also make an appearance. Currently, there is no planned premiere date.
Yellowstone
Yellowstone is the flagship show of Sheridan’s neo-Western universe. Premiering in 2018, the drama’s six-year run earned a Golden Globe Award, an Emmy nomination, and a Screen Actors Guild nomination.
Kevin Costner leads the cast as the current Dutton family patriarch and the head of the largest contiguous ranch in the U.S., John III. Orbiting cast members include Luke Grimes as John’s youngest son, Kayce; Kelly Reilly as John’s daughter, Beth; and Wes Bentley as John’s adopted son, Jamie. The fifth and final season premiered in 2024.
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Y: Marshals
Y: Marshals is the first official sequel following the end of Yellowstone. The series, which will air on CBS, will have Grimes reprise his role as Kayce Dutton as he prepares to join the U.S. Marshals.
According to the official logline, the youngest Dutton son will have to combine “his skills as a cowboy and Navy SEAL to bring range justice to Montana, where he and his teammates must balance family, duty and the high psychological cost that comes with serving as the last line of defense in the region’s war on violence.”
Although it has not yet been confirmed, it’s likely that the sequel will also feature the return of actor Kelsey Asbille, who played Monica, Kayce’s wife, in Yellowstone. The show is expected to make its premiere in the spring of 2026.
The Madison
A whole new crop of characters will soon be inducted into the world of Yellowstone. The Madison is a spin-off series that will, according to the official logline, feature a “heartfelt study of grief and human connection following a New York City family in the Madison River valley of central Montana.” The cast includes Michelle Pfeiffer, Patrick J. Adams, Elle Chapman, Beau Garrett, and Amiah Miller.
“It’s such a different story,” director Christina Alexandra teased in a November 2024 interview with Variety. “The common ground is the landscape. We are in Montana, but it is seen through a completely different lens, so it feels like another facet of this cut stone that has been polished. There are parallels in the scope of landscape and a human being’s place in that space, but it’s coming at it from a completely different point of view.”
A premiere date for The Madison has not yet been announced.
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