With the sun setting over the plains of 1883’s first season, viewers of this particular one of Taylor Sheridan’s western epic. Because he has multiple reasons to be happy to know that Paramount is very interested in bringing the series back for more episodes.
Does that mean Season Two? Not exactly. Or yet, anyway.
Sam Elliott, Tim McGraw, Billy Bob Thornton, Isabel May, LaMonica Garrett, Marc Rissmann, Audie Rick, Faith Hill, Eric Nelsen, and James Landry Hébert.
1883 has soon become the best series for Paramount, drawing in 4.9 million viewers for its premiere, the biggest audience for a Paramount series to date. This is dangerously close to Yellowstone’s regular 5 million viewers per episode, which appeared on Paramount Network.
During an investigation or call in February, the platform announced that it would be ruling more episodes of 1883, eventually putting it onto the current season, which nowadays contains nine episodes.
Currently, there is no official news about the return date for the series, but with Sheridan’s other projects in the works, the series will likely debut around the same time it premiered, which is to tell late in 2022.
1883’s upcoming latest episodes will continue to follow James Dutton (McGraw) and his wife Margaret, as the duo, their family, and a ragtag gang of settlers traverse the American West, heading for Oregon (or in the case of the Duttons, the Montana homestead that eventually becomes the Yellowstone ranch).
Sheridan’s other projects at Paramount consist of 6666, a Yellowstone sequel is set to premiere this fall, and Tulsa King, the recently declared Sylvester Stallone vehicle. If that’s not enough Sheridan series, Paramount has also announced openly it would be producing a new series called 1932, which will serve as a sequel to the Yellowstone prequel, 1883.
Taylor Sheridan’s 19th-century western epic has an exciting crop of new episodes in the works. But a has not been confirmed.