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Why Taylor Sheridan’s 6666 Yellowstone Spinoff May Never Happen

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Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone franchise is set to double its numbers of shows this year, with Marshals and The Madison, due to premiere in March, and The Dutton Ranch expected to follow later in 2026. However, the most important of Sheridan’s proposed spinoffs from his landmark neo-Western TV drama series has been put on hold indefinitely.

The prospective series closest to his heart, 6666 would use the real story of the Four Sixes Ranch in Texas for another branch of Yellowstone’s expanding screen universe. Sheridan worked the ranch into the original show’s plot with precisely this spinoff in mind. Yellowstone’s season 4 episode “Under a Blanket of Red” was effectively a backdoor pilot for 6666.

However, the development of the series has stalled over the past year, whereas the production of other Yellowstone spinoffs has moved ahead as planned. In fact, it now appears as though 6666 might not happen at all, as a result of various complicating factors in the show’s production, in addition to Taylor Sheridan’s extremely busy TV schedule.

6666 Is The Yellowstone Spinoff Most Important To Taylor Sheridan

Taylor Sheridan's Yellowstone character Travis Wheatley looking angry

Given how much 6666 would mean to Taylor Sheridan as a Yellowstone spinoff, you’d think it’d be the writer and producer’s top priority to get the series off the ground. It would be the first show in the franchise set in his home state, Texas. More specifically, its setting would be the Four Sixes ranch, which Sheridan himself recently purchased.

This legendary cattle farm is a real, working ranch of considerable historical significance, not far from Taylor Sheridan’s childhood home in northern Texas. What’s more, as well as his various roles behind the camera, Sheridan would be a lead actor in the TV show, because his own Yellowstone character Travis Wheatley is partnered with the Four Sixes.

The Four Sixes Ranch Inspired Taylor Sheridan To Make Yellowstone

Cole Hauser riding a horse as Rip Wheeler in Yellowstone season 5 episode 14

6666 wouldn’t just be an offshoot of Yellowstone that blurs reality and fiction. It would honor the ranch that inspired Taylor Sheridan’s entire Western TV universe. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Sheridan admitted basing the Dutton ranch on this sprawling Texan farmstead, because ranches with the “scope and operation” of the Four Sixes don’t actually exist in Montana.

A fictionalized historical version of the real-life ranch also features in season 2 of the Yellowstone spinoff 1923, which portrays Teonna Rainwater reaching the ranch during her long journey out West. Sheridan was already the ranch’s owner when Teonna’s scenes were shot there.

Jimmy Hurdstrom in his 6666 shirt and leaning against a fence at the rodeo in Yellowstone

As much as the production of 6666 would be fulfilling a dream of sorts for Taylor Sheridan, the show faces some serious obstacles in getting off the ground. Shooting an entire drama series about a real-life, working cattle ranch at the actual location, while doing justice to the site and its history, would be an extremely difficult and costly endeavor.

The signs don’t look promising for 6666, especially after the show’s prospective central cast member, Jefferson White, told the Daily Mail in December 2025, that he didn’t expect to reprise his Yellowstone role as Jimmy Hurdstrom anytime soon. It was Hurdstrom leaving Montana behind to work at the Four Sixes that laid the basis for this spinoff series.

“I’d be grateful if I got to do more and I’m grateful for what I got to do,” White added. “I don’t want to be selfish. We got a lot of great mileage out of that show.” This magnanimous assessment comes amid radio silence from both Paramount and Taylor Sheridan about the future of 6666.