Taylor Sheridan Shuts Down Hopes For “Yellowstone” Spinoff Show “6666”
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In a new podcast, Taylor Sheridan revealed he has closed the door on the previously announced Yellowstone spinoff series 6666.
What Did Taylor Sheridan Say About 6666?
Sheridan appeared on the Rodeo Time podcast, where he provided a definitive update on the spinoff series so many fans were patiently waiting for for the last four years.
“There’s never going to be one. I would never fictionalize that ranch,” he said during the interview. “People thought that that was going to be [a thing,] but I would never do that.”
He revealed this revelation came to him one day when he was watching the news and they were speaking about the most famous ranch in the country. Thinking it would mention the Four Sixes, the news report was talking about the Yellowstone Ranch.
“The most famous ranch in America is fake, it doesn’t exist,” he recalled. “When the show is over, which some day it will be, people are just gonna forget about it.”
While he wanted to bring attention to real cowboys, he didn’t want it to be a fad and for people to forget about ranches and real cowboys, and move on to the next thing. He saw this happen during his stint on Sons Of Anarchy, where for seven years, outlaw bikers were the coolest thing, but once the show ended, everyone stopped talking about motorcycles.
This is why he introduced the Four Sixes ranch in Texas when ranch hand Jimmy Hurdstrom was sent there to work in Season 4.
He said, “I have to write in a real ranch. I have to tell a story on that ranch that doesn’t involve train stations or any kind of nonsense. It’s just gotta be about somebody learning to be a man on a ranch.”
Speaking about the time Jimmy spent at the ranch, Sheridan says, “I’ve actually got on my computer all the scenes of Jimmy at the 6666 pulled out and strung together, and it makes its own perfect little movie. You watch him go there as this misfit, and leave a man and a respected cowboy.”
He noted that Jimmy’s Four Sixes storyline was inspired by a real-life cowboy in similar circumstances.
“If I was gonna make a show about the Four Sixes, now I’m making up lives,” he added. “I’d have to invent a drama. We can’t just watch some kid learn how to rope every single episode. So now I’m trivializing and fictionalizing something where real people work and they raise their families there. I could never do that to them. I could never do that to the cowboys who’ve dedicated themselves, and everybody that works there.”
“I’m very protective of the Sixes,” he concluded.
Watch him talk about putting a halt on the 6666 spinoff show below.
Jefferson White Hinted At The Show’s Future, Or Lack Thereof, Last Year
Although this news is a little disappointing as fans, we saw the writing on the wall months ago.
Jefferson White, who played Jimmy on Yellowstone, was asked in December 2025 if he would be appearing in another show in the Yellowstone universe.
He said, “Not that I know of now…I kept my fingers crossed, but also, I’d be grateful if I got to do more and I’m grateful for what I got to do. I don’t want to be selfish. We got a lot of great mileage out of that show.”
The 6666 Series Was First Announced In 2021
Despite Rodeo Time Podcast host Dale Brisbly claiming in the episode with Sheridan that fans dreamed up the spinoff after Jimmy went to the Four Sixes, it was actually announced by the network years ago.
The spinoff show was announced in February 2021 alongside then-upcoming projects Mayor of Kingstown and Landman. Mayor of Kingstown is now approaching its fifth and final season, while Landman is about to begin production of Season 3.
6666 was first announced as a Paramount+ production, but at Paramount’s Upfront presentation in May 2022, the network announced the show would air on Paramount Network.
Deadline reports that the log line of the show was the following:
“Comanches still ruled West Texas and no ranch in America is more steeped in the history of the West than the 6666. Still operating as it did two centuries before, and encompassing an entire county, the 6666 is where the rule of law and the laws of nature merge in a place where the most dangerous thing one does is the next thing. The 6666 is synonymous with the merciless endeavor to raise the finest horses and livestock in the world, and ultimately where world class cowboys are born and made.”
But everything changed when Sheridan, along with several investors, purchased the real Four Sixes ranch in Texas in early 2022.
By 2023, the show was put “on hold,” with Sheridan telling The Hollywood Reporter that seeing all the real-life work and the “sensitivities involved with the property,” made him re-think everything.
He said, “That, for a number of reasons, needs a unique level of special care because this is a real place with real families working here. You have to respect the lineage. I’ve told [the studio] to be patient.“
While we are disappointed that there won’t be a 6666 show, we understand Sheridan’s reasoning behind it.
