Before the actors joined the industrial action, Luke Grimes confirmed the cast hadn't started filming any of the episodes yet. While we know the drama will end with season 5, fans will have to wait for months to see how the show wraps everything up. Apart from Beth ( Kelly Reilly) and Jamie ( Wes Bentley) potentially plotting to kill each other, John ( Kevin Costner) must come to grips with the fact that the Yellowstone ranch might cost him his legacy. As fans saw in the midseason finale, a bacterial disease called brucellosis threatened to wipe out his cattle, forcing him to send the herd down to Texas. The move may not only put Beth and Rip ( Cole Hauser) closer to a reunion with Jimmy down on the 6666 ranch but leasing the land could potentially bankrupt the Duttons as well. Need to catch up on the recent episodes? Read our full recaps and cast interviews for the latest Season 5 episodes.

The story of the Dutton family, owners of the largest ranch in Montana, is now one of Paramount's biggest successes. I am confident our Yellowstone sequel will be another big hit, thanks to the brilliant creative mind of Taylor Sheridan and our incredible casts who bring these shows to life." A prequel limited series, 1883, aired on Paramount+ late in 2021, and revealed the origin story of the Dutton family arriving in Montana. The series starred Isabel May as the brave and adventurous teenager Elsa, elder sister to John Dutton's great-grandfather, John Sr., and Tim McGraw as her father, James.Paramount has announced a new contemporary Yellowstone spin-off series called 2024, which appears to be the highly anticipated Yellowstone follow-up that Matthew McConaughey is in discussions to lead. Sheridan previously indicated that the series might take place in a different location than the flagship show.

Four new characters have arrived on Yellowstone as well. Kai Caster plays a young cowboy named Rowdy. Lainey Wilson plays a musician, Abby. Lilli Kai plays Clara Brewer, Gov. Dutton's new assistant. And 1883's Dawn Olivieri joined the cast as Sarah Atwood, a Montana newcomer and "corporate shark" who has attached herself to Jamie. That doesn't mean the final season will be truncated, though. Yellowstone Season 5 Part 2 was supposed to be just six episodes, but that may no longer be the case. Sheridan told The Hollywood Reporter, "If I think it takes 10 episodes to wrap it up, [Paramount Network will] give me 10. It'll be as long as it needs to be." Co-created by Taylor Sheridan and John Linson, the series has featured an all-star guest cast including Danny Huston, Gretchen Mol, Lost's Josh Holloway, Piper Perabo and singer Faith Hill in the first four seasons. Yellowstone Season 5 Part 2 will premiere in November 2024, Variety reported on Nov. 2. This means Season 5 will now be returning a year later than it was originally expected to return. An exact premiere date has not been announced. You can watch Yellowstone on CBS during the break Below, we'll go through what we know about the second half of the final season, including the latest release date, cast information, and recaps of the first part of the season to set you up for what's to come.

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In May, Paramount said Yellowstone Season 5 Part 2 will be released sometime in November. Those episodes will be the show's last, but an as-yet-untitled sequel show is coming in December. I'm disappointed," Sheridan said in the interview. "It truncates the closure of his character. It doesn't alter it, but it truncates it." However, Bentley also wanted to clarify that this doesn't mean he knows how many episodes or seasons it will take the show to reach this conclusion, so we hopefully have a long time yet before that happens.

One of those places Sheridan wanted to tell that story was on the 6666 ranch, the real-life North Texas ranch that became part of Yellowstone's story and the property that Sheridan now owns. However, production on 6666 is now on hold, because Sheridan is looking to spend extra time on it given that he's personally witnessed its storied history. Yellowstone Season 5 Part 2 release date Before the season premiered, it was announced that Kathryn Kelly, who plays Jimmy's fiancée, Emily, had also been promoted to series regular and returned to the show alongside Jefferson White as Jimmy. So far, they've only appeared in the midseason finale and are happily living and working at the Four Sixes Ranch in Texas. He told People: "We have not [started filming the second half of season five] because of the writers’ strike. I think we would be if it weren't for that. But that takes precedence over everything. They got to get that all sorted, and then we'll be getting after it." Yellowstone will end with Season 5, Paramount has announced. At the time of the announcement in early May, the show's final episodes were scheduled to premiere in November 2023, while a currently untitled sequel series was confirmed to be in the works and set to debut in December. However, the writers strike and the actors strike delayed both projects, and Season 5 is now set to return in November 2024.

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In November 2023, Paramount officially greenlit two more spin-off series: 1944 and a contemporary spin-off called 2024. Variety reports that, according to sources, 2024 will feature new characters as well as some crossover characters from the flagship show. This appears to be the sequel series that Matthew McConaughey has reportedly been in talks to star in, though that has yet to be confirmed. No premiere date has been announced. Meanwhile, in an interview with Extra, Kevin Costner talked about how he identifies with the story in the new season.