{"id":257153,"date":"2025-10-28T19:12:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T19:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/257153\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T19:12:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T19:12:12","slug":"yellowstone-creator-taylor-sheridan-quit-paramount-after-clash-with-david-ellison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/257153\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Yellowstone\u2019 Creator Taylor Sheridan Quit Paramount After Clash With David Ellison"},"content":{"rendered":"

Taylor Sheridan, the creator of the Yellowstone franchise beloved by middle America, is ditching his longtime home at Paramount. And it has everything to do with the company\u2019s new chief executive, David Ellison.<\/p>\n

According to a new report from the Wall Street Journal<\/a>, one disagreement was about a request from Ellison to make a series tied to America\u2019s 250th anniversary next year. The Journal, citing unnamed sources, said Sheridan refused to make his shows \u201covertly political.\u201d <\/p>\n

\"DALLAS,Taylor Sheridan attends amfAR Dallas Gala at Private Residence on October 04, 2025 in Dallas, Texas. Ryan Emberley\/Getty Images for amfAR <\/p>\n

Yellowstone has often been branded as a red-state show or conservative show, because the lead family, the Duttons, mirror conservative values of being against outsiders and changing culture. But Sheridan has criticized commenters who believe the show is conservative, telling The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> in 2022, that it has a lot of progressive themes. Sheridan told the New York Times<\/a> in 2019 that he was \u201capolitical publicly\u201d and wanted to show all sides rather than preach to his audience.<\/p>\n

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The report, citing unnamed sources, mentions other disputes between Sheridan and the leadership team at Paramount including questions about Sheridan\u2019s budget for his TV series, Lioness, and a rejection of one of Sheridan\u2019s film scripts. Paramount also cast Nicole Kidman, who stars in Lioness, in another legal drama, Discretion, without telling Sheridan, which could affect his shooting schedule.<\/p>\n

Paramount has been a hub for Sheridan\u2019s TV shows since the first season of Yellowstone in 2018, and in return the writer has produced several hits including Yellowstone\u2019s spin-offs and Lioness. <\/p>\n

\"ParamountParamount Skydance CEO David Ellison speaks during the Bloomberg Screentime conference in Los Angeles on October 9, 2025. Patrick T. Fallon \/ AFP <\/p>\n

Sheridan has signed a new five-year deal with a rival company, NBC Universal, so he can make movies with NBCU from next year and new TV series for their channels starting in 2029, once his current Paramount deal is up. The Journal reported that this deal could be worth $1 billion depending on the success of Sheridan\u2019s new shows.<\/p>\n

Ellison\u2019s critics claim that he has attempted to make CBS, Paramount\u2019s network hub, more conservative to appease President Trump, pointing to the cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in July and the hiring of anti-woke journalist Bari Weiss as the new editor-in-chief of CBS News in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taylor Sheridan, the creator of the Yellowstone franchise beloved by middle America, is ditching his longtime home at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88,1506],"class_list":["post-257153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-hollywood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}