{"id":398451,"date":"2026-08-05T16:24:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T16:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/398451\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T16:24:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T16:24:38","slug":"four-sheridan-shows-one-texas-campus-how-fort-worth-became-tvs-new-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/398451\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Sheridan shows, one Texas campus: how Fort Worth became TV&#8217;s new capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tTaylor Sheridan&#8217;s SGS Studios, a 450,000-square-foot two-building campus built with Ross Perot Jr.&#8217;s Hillwood and Paramount Television inside north Fort Worth&#8217;s AllianceTexas development, has already hosted four of his productions: Landman, Lioness season 3, The Madison and Dutton Ranch. Filming has repeatedly shut down city streets, from downtown blocks near Del Frisco&#8217;s Double Eagle Steakhouse to a closed section of University Drive in the Cultural District. Behind the closures sits a wider industrial buildout, backed by Texas&#8217; $300 million-per-cycle production incentive, that has turned one producer&#8217;s contract into a small entertainment economy.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Four sets, one address: at AllianceTexas, a 450,000-square-foot campus now quietly functions as the nerve center of Taylor Sheridan\u2019s television empire. Landman, Lioness, The Madison and Dutton Ranch have all rolled cameras inside SGS Studios, the two-building production compound Sheridan built with David Glasser, Dan Schryer, Ross Perot Jr.\u2019s Hillwood and Paramount Television. Downtown Fort Worth has paid the price in road closures, from 8th Street to University Drive, as crews chase car chases and collision scenes through the Cultural District. The result is an industrial operation built to run four shows at once, with its own pipeline of local labor courtesy of Tarrant County College.<\/p>\n<p>A studio built for ambition in Fort Worth<\/p>\n<p>Taylor Sheridan has spent years filming his shows across Texas. Now the machinery has a permanent home. With producer David Glasser and Dan Schryer, and in partnership with Ross Perot Jr.\u2019s Hillwood and Paramount Television, Sheridan launched SGS Studios, a <a href=\"https:\/\/dallasinnovates.com\/taylor-sheridans-sgs-studios-launches-texas-largest-production-campus-in-fort-worth-with-more-to-come\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">450,000-square-foot campus<\/a> inside the 27,000-acre AllianceTexas development in north Fort Worth, announced in August 2025. The two buildings can host up to 4 large-scale productions at once, making it the largest studio in Texas. \u201cSGS Studios isn\u2019t just about sound stages or incentives, it\u2019s about reclaiming the independence and grit that built this industry in the first place,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/taylor-sheridan-paramount-fort-worth-texas-production-studio\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sheridan said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Four Sheridan series under one roof<\/p>\n<p>The campus has already welcomed 4 Sheridan-produced shows. Landman, the oil drama starring Billy Bob Thornton as fixer Tommy Norris, shot its second season there after premiering November 17, 2024. Lioness, with Zoe Saldana as CIA operative Joe McNamara alongside Nicole Kidman and Morgan Freeman, began season 3 production in Fort Worth in October 2025. The Madison, headlined by Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt Russell and directed by Christina Alexandra Voros, also used the facilities, as did Dutton Ranch, the Yellowstone spinoff built around Cole Hauser and Kelly Reilly, which premiered on Paramount+ on May 15, 2026 with a two-episode debut.<\/p>\n<p>When the city becomes the set<\/p>\n<p>Fort Worth itself keeps landing on screen. In February 2026, 8th Street downtown was closed for several days so Lioness could film at Del Frisco\u2019s Double Eagle Steakhouse, with police directing traffic. Earlier shoots shut down blocks near the Sinclair Hotel and the city\u2019s old City Hall, plus neighborhoods around TCU. Then in March 2026, a section of University Drive in the Cultural District was fully closed for driving, stunt and collision scenes. \u201cThis is an unprecedented time for film in Fort Worth,\u201d said film commissioner Taylor Hardy.<\/p>\n<p>Building a workforce, and a future<\/p>\n<p>The operation goes beyond soundstages. SGS Studios has <a href=\"https:\/\/news.tccd.edu\/2025\/08\/13\/taylor-sheridan-opens-texas-largest-film-studio-at-hillwoods-alliancetexas-in-fort-worth\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">partnered with Tarrant County College<\/a> to train students in set construction, post-production and stage operations. The bet aligns with a statewide push: Texas raised its film incentive program to $300 million every 2 years, a 10-year deal worth up to $1.5 billion, after Sheridan testified before the Legislature in late 2024. Mayor Mattie Parker called the industry \u201can exciting opportunity to fuel our growth while keeping our economy bold and diverse\u201d for what is now Texas\u2019 fourth largest city. Sheridan, for his part, remains under contract with Paramount through at least 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taylor Sheridan&#8217;s SGS Studios, a 450,000-square-foot two-building campus built with Ross Perot Jr.&#8217;s Hillwood and Paramount Television inside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-398451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}