Taylor Sheridan’s New TV Plan Confirms How Many New Series He’ll Create

Published Nov 13, 2026, 12:44 PM EST Grant Hermanns is a TV News Editor, Interview Host and Reviewer for ScreenRant, having joined the team in early 2021. He got his start in the industry with Moviepilot, followed by working at ComingSoon.net. When not indulging in his love of film/TV, Grant is making his way through his gaming backlog and exploring the world of Dungeons & Dragons with friends. Taylor Sheridan has big things in store once he leaves his Yellowstone home of Paramount. The past decade has seen Sheridan soar as one of the more prolific TV creatives after the Kevin Costner-led neo-Western series became a smash hit for Paramount Network. In addition to expanding it into a franchise with four spinoff shows, he's also found major success with the Sylvester Stallone-led Tulsa King, Jeremy Renner-starring Mayor of Kingstown and Billy Bob Thornton's Landman, among others. Amidst his growing roster of projects with Paramount, though, Sheridan made a surprising move when he signed a five-year deal with NBCUniversal, beginning once his prior deals with the former studio end for films in March 2026 and TV in 2028. Just prior to his leaving, he set one final film project with Paramount in their Call of Duty adaptation, which he is co-writing and producing alongside director Peter Berg. Now, after a recent appearance at Yahoo Finance Invest 2026, more insight into Sheridan's NBCUniversal deal has emerged. In addition to the confirmation that he will officially begin work at the new studio in 2029, sources report that Sheridan is planning to create upward of 20 new TV shows, and that his deal is worth $1 billion. Sheridan himself opened up a bit about the decision to move from Paramount to NBCUniversal, praising the "opportunity to work with Donna Langley," NBCUniversal Entertainment's chairwoman, who he describes as having "impeccable" taste in her productions. He went on to cite Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey as one such example, recalling many people in the industry "gossiping and panicking" about the Greek epic's $250 million production budget, only for it to "work extremely well": Taylor Sheridan: Her understanding of the industry and our business is unrivaled. She looks for marquee storytellers, and she trusts them. But look who she bet on — Christopher Nolan’s one of the best filmmakers alive. And it checked the creative boxes, and then checked the financial boxes. And yes, it was a huge hurdle. And she sailed over it. So she bets on you. She bets on winners. Sheridan also denoted that he's "never had a show canceled," nor has he ever "had a show that wasn't produced," with all of his released titles thus far being "a hit" for Paramount and its various platforms. As such, the Yellowstone boss expressed that he's "earned the right to go somewhere that trusts me to do the same thing for them": Taylor Sheridan: I’m the kind of guy that everyone thinks, "Oh my gosh, he’s so prolific," [but] I wrote that 10 years ago and I just sat on it. I just waited until the right time. So I have a couple of those. I have a couple things that I’ve waited until the technology caught up to what it requires to make it effectively. And until I had the power to make it the way I want. It is interesting to note that Sheridan states he's never had a series canceled or not produced, as there are caveats to that. The multihyphenate and co-creator Hugh Dillon had a seven-season plan for Mayor of Kingstown, only for Paramount+ to greenlight the show's return for an abbreviated fifth and final season. Meanwhile, there are multiple Yellowstone spinoffs still lingering in limbo, including a 1944-set prequel, a Matthew McConaughey-led sequel, and Four Sixes spinoff. Should the report prove accurate, Sheridan creating 20 TV shows under his new NBCUniversal deal would surpass his Paramount output by a fair amount. Having begun with Yellowstone in 2018, the creator/producer has thus far been behind 14 different shows across the studio's various networks and streaming platforms, including Samuel L. Jackson's upcoming Frisco King spinoff series, which he completely reworked and wrote after original showrunner Dave Erickson's exit over scheduling conflicts. Choose the movie with the higher Rotten Tomatoes score. Even beyond the actual number of shows produced and released thus far, Taylor Sheridan also had much longer to do so for Paramount, clocking in at eight years, whereas his NBCUniversal deal is currently only situated for five years. There's a very real chance that if his new shows become hits for the studio's various platforms, they'll likely extend it beyond its current 2034 end window, and 20 shows may just be the start. Taylor Sheridan