The news broke Sunday that beloved TV creator Taylor Sheridan will leave Paramount when his contract is up, signing a new deal with NBCUniversal.

Sheridan has been the golden child of Paramount (and of Texas-made TV) for years — Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison called him a “singular genius with a perfect track record” — so the news came as a shock.

 

 

In August, Sheridan announced that he’d partnered with Paramount to open what he said would be the biggest film and TV studio in Texas, just north of Fort Worth. The studio will span 450,000 square feet and include six soundstages, enabling Sheridan’s team to work on as many as four productions at once. According to WFAA, filming on “Landman” season two began at Sheridan’s existing two-building SGS Studios campus in March.

 

 

According to Deadline, the five-year TV deal will begin in 2029 after his current deal with Paramount ends. However, every show Sheridan creates with Paramount until the end of his current contract will be owned by Paramount — meaning he can’t take “Yellowstone” or “Landman” to NBCUniversal.

 

 

So what does that mean for all the shows he’s shot in Texas? It’s a little early to say definitively. Deadline reports Sheridan still has to deliver three more seasons of his various shows to Paramount before he departs. He was reportedly filming “Special Ops: Lioness” in Fort Worth recently, and “Lioness” was allegedly filming in Dallas earlier this month.

 

 

Puck reports that in the next year, Paramount has slated “Landman,” as well as a couple of “Yellowstone” spinoffs, more “Lioness” and a new show called “NOLA King.” Only time will tell if these shows will continue without Sheridan’s involvement after he departs Paramount.

But for now, Sheridan’s fans have a solid three more years of TV and film coming from the creator. And it’s clear Sheridan is committed to Texas, both on a professional and personal level: he owns a 600-acre ranch in North Texas and the historic Four Sixes Ranch in King County. And in June, he and his business partners purchased Cattlemen’s Steakhouse in Fort Worth’s famed stockyards.