No one has really tried to keep Taylor Sheridan down, but it seems unlikely they would be able to if they did. As well as several Yellowstone-centric shows in development, Lioness, Landman, Mayor of Kingstown, and Tulsa King, it looks like Sheridan’s dominance of Paramount+’s streaming schedules is expanding again with the latter of these shows getting its own spinoff, and bringing Samuel L. Jackson along for the ride.
Tulsa King, just like every Sheridan creation, is not short of big-name stars. Being highly marketed as the first leading TV role of action movie verteran Sylvester Stallone, the series has brought the Rocky and Rambo stalwart to a new playground. In his role as Dwight “the General” Manfredi, Stallone has delivered one of the best roles of his recent career offerings, and in the third season, which is currently shooting, he will be joined by another industry icon, Samuel L. Jackson.
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Although there are currently few details about the new season available, it was reported by Deadline that Jackson will appear in multiple episodes of Tulsa King Season 3 as Russell Lee Washington, a man who comes from the same type of criminal background as Stallone’s Manfredi, and who will go toe to toe with the crime boss before heading down to New Orleans, Louisiana, where his story will continue in NOLA King, a spinoff being written by Mayor of Kingstown scribe, Dave Erickson.
If there is one thing that Taylor Sheridan seems to love more than anything else, it is building big worlds for his characters to live in. With Yellowstone, it included multi-generational storytelling across two prequel shows, 1883 and 1923, and is set to continue with several other integrated shows both in the past and the future of the Yellowstone story. Now, it looks like Tulsa King will be kicking off its own TV universe with NOLA King.
While the story will seemingly not be following Manfredi directly, the fact that the show is getting a spinoff – which was reportedly based on an idea by Showtime and MTV Entertainment Studios’ CEO Chris McCarthy – shows that there are always attempts being made to expand on the characters and stories in Sheridan’s bulging book of tales. In all honesty, a show looking back at a young Dwight Manfredi is probably already on someone’s to-do list.
Season 3 of Tulsa King is expected to arrive on screens before the end of the year, and sources have put the filming on NOLA King as being set for early 2026. This means that the spinoff will likely be airing sometime in late summer 2026, and will join several other series, including two new Yellowstone sequel shows, more from Lioness, and who knows what other glorious gifts from the never-ending churn of Taylor Sheridan’s mind.
Source: Deadline
