CBS considering Yellowstone (2018) Spinoff Starring Luke Grimes

Taylor Sheridan's Yellowstone (2018) universe is looking to expand beyond Paramount Network and Paramount+. A potential new spin-off of Yellowstone (2018) is reportedly set to air on sister network CBS. No deals have yet been finalized for the procedural series, which was rumored more than a month ago. As then, CBS declined to comment on the prospect of an original Yellowstone (2018) series on the network. The new series would see Yellowstone (2018) star Luke Grimes (pictured) reprise his role as agriculture commissioner and former Navy SEAL Kayce Dutton.



The existing Yellowstone (2018) series is produced by MTV Entertainment Studios. Sources say that sister company CBS Studios, which produces all of CBS’s internal procedural dramas, is not currently involved, though one of the show’s showrunners, Seal Team’s Spencer Hudnut, is helming the new series.

According to sources, he’s been working on ideas for more than a year as the project works its way through Sheridan’s approval and a commitment from Grimes to make a series. Things are still in flux, but if it does happen, the series would likely tap into Kayce’s Navy SEAL background.

If it does come to fruition, the new offshoot would join another Yellowstone (2018) spinoff series, helmed by Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser, that was announced last December.

This would mark a return of the Yellowstone (2018) universe to CBS, which aired the first seasons of the main series during the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. The network is also signing Sheridan for the upcoming music competition series The Road.

This also fits into Paramount Global’s overarching cross-platform strategy. The NCIS franchise, which originally aired on CBS, is now getting its first spinoff on Paramount+ alongside the ongoing series.

Grimes’ Kayce is the younger brother of Beth Dutton (Reilly). In the 2018 series finale of Yellowstone, Kayce signs over the entire land to Rainwater and his tribe for $1.25 an acre, the price James Dutton (Tim McGraw) reportedly paid when the family settled there in 1883. The sale is conditional: the vast land is never to be developed, and Kayce, his wife Monica (Kelsey Asbille) and son Tate (Brecken Merrill) remain on a small parcel of land where they have built a home and are supposed to stay.