Paramount+ Sets Dutton Ranch Two-Episode Premiere for May 2026

Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser packed up Beth Dutton and Rip Wheeler and moved them to South Texas. Paramount+ dropped the first look and official teaser for Dutton Ranch on Monday, setting a two-episode global premiere for Friday, May 15, with the series also debuting simultaneously on the Paramount Network at 8 p.m. ET/PT.

Dutton Ranch premieres Friday, May 15, 2026, on Paramount+, with two episodes, and the series will also debut the same day on the Paramount Network, starting at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Following the two-episode premiere, new episodes will launch weekly on Fridays through the season finale, with nine episodes in all.

In Dutton Ranch, Beth Dutton and Rip Wheeler are striking out on their own and relocating for a new adventure, with their ward Carter, played by Finn Little, along for the ride as Beth and Rip work to ensure he becomes the man he's meant to be. The setting marks a deliberate geographic shift: although the ending of Yellowstone set up Beth and Rip buying a ranch in Dillon, Montana, Dutton Ranch is set in South Texas. The official logline frames the stakes bluntly: "As Beth and Rip fight to build a future together, far from the ghosts of Yellowstone, they collide with brutal new realities and a ruthless rival ranch that will stop at nothing to protect its empire. In South Texas, blood runs deeper, forgiveness is fleeting, and the cost of survival might just be your soul."

Creator Chad Feehan serves as showrunner of Dutton Ranch, executive-producing alongside Taylor Sheridan, John Linson, David C. Glasser, Art Linson, Ron Burkle, David Hutkin, Bob Yari, Christina Alexandra Voros, Michael Friedman, Hauser, Reilly, and Keith Cox. Voros directed multiple episodes, including the premiere and finale. Greg Yaitanes, Jessica Lowrey, and Phil Abraham also directed episodes during the season.

The new cast additions carry serious pedigree. Ed Harris plays Everett McKinney, a weathered veteran and veterinarian, while Annette Bening stars as Beulah Jackson, the powerful, cunning, and charming head of a major ranch in Texas. In the teaser, Beth faces off with Beulah Jackson directly, delivering the line: "A legacy is a beautiful thing. But only if it survives." Juan Pablo Raba, Jai Courtney, J.R. Villarreal, Marc Menchaca, and Natalie Alyn Lind also star in the new series.

The teaser itself set a combative tone from its opening seconds. Set to a remix of Eminem's "Till I Collapse," the clip frames Beth and Rip as a vengeance-fueled pairing prepared to tear through South Texas with the same ferocity they brought to Montana.

Marshals showrunner Spencer Hudnut revealed that the summer before Yellowstone signed off with its series finale in December 2024, David Glasser at 101 Studios and Keith Cox at Paramount began exploring how to continue the franchise. "David did start the conversation by asking, 'Would you rather watch a spinoff about Kayce Dutton or Beth Dutton?' And, because he's David Glasser, he, of course, will have both shows on the air," said Hudnut.

Dutton Ranch is the second Yellowstone spinoff to launch this year, following Marshals. CBS recently began airing Marshals, which sees Luke Grimes return in the role of Kayce Dutton, and the series has already been renewed for a second season. A third entry, The Madison, starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt Russell as a New York City family displaced to the Madison River valley, is also set for Paramount+. The spring premiere timing for Dutton Ranch broke from the franchise's traditional autumn launch pattern, arriving months earlier than most observers anticipated.