Yellowstone season 2 will saddle up for another 10-episode ride on cable’s Paramount Network next year.
News of the 2019-scheduled sophomore run of Yellowstone – arriving just halfway into season 1’s 10-episode run – is hardly a surprise. The series received the industry equivalent of a ticker tape parade by the newly-rebranded Paramount Network (formerly Spike TV), heralded as a peak television drama brandishing household-name actor Kevin Costner, serving as the network’s inaugural scripted series offering. Indeed, the series banked impressive ratings, with Paramount citing 5.3 million viewers (a generously-accrued number that likely includes metrics across all platforms,) for the show’s June 20 debut, and has since maintained generally steady viewership.
The series, set in rural Montana near Yellowstone National Park, is a Dallas-like Stetson-strewn family drama and a modern take on old frontier Western stories. The series centers on wealthy cattle ranch-owning patriarch John Dutton (Kevin Costner) and his business-involved offspring, Beth (Kelly Reilly), Jamie (Wes Bentley) and Kayce (Luke Grimes). The drama manifests through local land issues, with the Duttons frequently butting heads with lawyers, politicians and the local indigenous tribe. Interestingly the series pilot pulled a fast one on viewers by killing one of the main Dutton siblings, Lee (Dave Annable).
The Yellowstone cast also consists of Cole Hauser, Kelsey Asbille, Brecken Merrill, Jefferson White, Danny Huston and Gil Birmingham.
Yellowstone season 2 air date
Yellowstone season 2 is set to arrive on Paramount Network on an unspecified date in 2019. We are still waiting on a UK broadcaster and air date for season 1.