That Yellowstone spin-off you heard about? Not happening, says Taylor Sheridan

If you were holding out hope for that long-rumoured Yellowstone spin-off set at the legendary 6666 Ranch, it’s time to let it go. Taylor Sheridan himself has officially put the idea out to pasture – and he sounds rather pleased about it, to be honest.

The 6666 spin-off was first teased by Paramount at its 2022 Upfronts, but it’s now been scrapped before a single frame was shot.

‘Never going to be one’

The confirmation comes straight from Sheridan, who spoke on the Rodeo Time podcast with Dale Brisby on 18 August 2026. In his own words: 'There’s never going to be one... I would never fictionalise that ranch.' For all the speculation after Jefferson White's character Jimmy packed his bags for the Four Sixes on Yellowstone's fourth season, Sheridan’s just not having it. Even though Paramount had made some noise about the series, Sheridan’s verdict now is categoric: 'People thought that that was going to be a thing, but I would never do that.'

Why Sheridan won’t do it

So why kill off the project? Sheridan isn’t playing hard to get here; he’s genuinely not on board with the whole idea of making TV out of real cowboys' actual working lives. He reckons that a TV show needs more drama than a regular day at the ranch provides – and dredging up problems just for telly isn’t fair on the people who live and work there, not to mention their families. Sheridan’s words on the podcast spell it out:

‘So now I’m trivialising and fictionalising something where real people work, and they raise their families there, and I could never do that to them. I could never do that to the cowboys that dedicated themselves, and everybody that works on that ranch.’

It helps explain why he’s protective. Sheridan and a handful of partners actually bought the historic Four Sixes Ranch back in 2020 for a jaw-dropping $330 million, so it’s not just a filming location to him – it’s a full-time responsibility. He put it plainly: he's 'very protective of the Sixes, and it’s a big responsibility to be the person who has to protect that ranch, so I have to be very, very careful with it.'

The only 6666 spin-off you’ll get

To give fans something (but not an entire show), Sheridan says he’s cobbled together an edit of just Jimmy’s bits at the ranch from Yellowstone, calling it a 'perfect little movie.' You get to watch Jimmy arrive as an out-of-place newcomer and ride off transformed – and apparently, that's all we're getting. There’s no chance of a full Sixes series now, and Sheridan sounds relieved he never has to make one.