Taylor Sheridan has spent the past four years turning Paramount+ into something like a private studio lot, and for most of that run, the machine has been remarkably punctual, with a Yellowstone spin-off in the spring, a crime drama in the fall, and a fresh title dropped into any gap that opened up. That rhythm has broken down in 2026, though, and the one show that ought to have been easiest to schedule has instead gone quiet for the better part of a year.
Landman was renewed on December 5, 2025, barely three weeks into its second season and following the most-watched original premiere in Paramount+ history. Since then, the production calendar has slipped three times. An original May start became late August, according to Billy Bob Thornton, then moved again to September, with co-star James Jordan saying in late July that production on the 10-episode season would run into the first quarter of 2027.
The streamer has now addressed the delay directly. Speaking to Deadline, Paramount+ EVP and Head of Originals Jane Wiseman confirmed that Sheridan is actively writing the third season, dropping the detail almost in passing while answering a question about whether Tulsa King could continue beyond Season 4. “Between Tulsa and Landman, which Taylor is writing right now,” she said, before reeling off Frisco King, Dutton Ranch, and The Madison as evidence that Paramount+ expects to stay in the Sheridan business for years yet.
What Wiseman didn’t offer was a premiere window, and the math isn’t especially encouraging. If cameras roll in September and run through spring 2027, post-production on 10 episodes would realistically push the season into late 2027, leaving roughly two years between Tommy Norris’s last appearance and his next one. Stephen Kay, who directed every episode of Season 2, is expected back behind the camera in Fort Worth.
Nothing about the holdup suggests trouble, of course. Sheridan spent the spring shooting Frisco King, Thornton toured with his band into August, and almost the entire cast renegotiated their deals in June. Paramount+ can absorb the wait regardless: that record second-season opener pulled 9.2 million views in its first two days, up 262% from the Season 1 premiere, and the finale went bigger still with 14.8 million within 48 hours. Critical warmth has been harder to come by since our own largely admiring review of Season 1, though numbers like those tend to settle any arguments internally.
There’s a deadline on all this, though. Sheridan moves to NBCUniversal in 2029, and Wiseman has been open about wanting as much of his work on the service as possible before then, which makes a two-year gap on one of its biggest titles an odd fit for the strategy. For now, the most concrete thing anyone has is that the scripts are being written, which, after eight months of silence, counts as movement.
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November 17, 2024
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Paramount
