‘Lioness' & ‘The Madison' Poised For Renewals As New Paramount Brass Praise Taylor Sheridan & He Opens New Texas Campus With 101 Studios
'On Paramount+ today, we have a really great foundation, which is the Taylor Sheridan universe,' Paramount's Chair of Direct-to-Consumer Cindy Holland said.
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Paramount CEO David Ellison called Sheridan 'a singular genius with a perfect track record.'
Every Taylor Sheridan show to date has performed well and, outside of those designed as limited series, they have gone to multiple seasons, with all except mothership Yellowstone still ongoing.
That will continue with new seasons for Yellowstone spinoff The Madison and Special Ops: Lioness, sources tell Deadline. It would be an early Season 2 renewal for The Madison, starring Michelle Pfeiffer, ahead of its series debut on Paramount+, and a long-awaited Season 3 pickup for Lioness. Its star Zoe Saldaña already had a deal in place spanning three seasons but co-star Nicole Kidman had to make a new one for Season 3, which was a contributing factor to the delay, sources said.
The new seasons will film at the new 450,000 sf production campus in Fort Worth Texas' 27,000-acre AllianceTexas development. It was recently launched as a partnership between SGS Studios, Sheridan's company with 101 Studios CEO David Glasser; Paramount Television and Hillwood, a Perot Company.
Filming at the campus — the largest operating studio facility in Texas — began in March 2025 on the upcoming second season Sheridan's drama Landman starring Billy Bob Thornton.
Glasser, whose 101 Studios co-produces all Sheridan series alongside Paramount TV Studios, revealed that Landman Season 2 is one of four shows that will shoot in Fort Worth this year, with The Madison Season 2 slated to begin filming in September, followed by Lioness Season 3 in October.
Sheridan's current deal with Paramount goes to 2028. Ellison confirmed to Deadline that the company would be happy to extend it.
'We can just make this his home for as long as he wants to tell stories,' he said on stage earlier.
The Madison is billed as a heartfelt study of grief and human connection, following a New York City family in the Madison River valley of central Montana. Sheridan executive produces with Glasser, John Linson, Art Linson, Ron Burkle, Bob Yari, David Hutkin, Christina Voros, Michael Friedman, Pfeiffer and Keith Cox.
Lioness is inspired by an actual U.S. military program that follows the life of Joe (Saldaña) while she attempts to balance her personal and professional life as the tip of the CIA's spear in the war on terror. The series is executive produced by Sheridan, Glasser, Saldaña, Kidman, Burkle, Yari, Hutkin, Jill Wagner, David Lemanowicz, Geyer Kosinski, Michael Friedman and Cox.
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