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It was written when, in 2020, Paramount Global (then ViacomCBS) licensed the Yellowstone<\/em> streaming rights to Peacock.<\/p>\n Taylor Sheridan, an actor turned western-writing juggernaut, is bailing from the plains of Paramount (comma, a Skydance Corporation!) for the (money-)greener pastures of NBCUniversal<\/a>. Sheridan has inked a film deal with NBCU, the home to studios like Universal Pictures and Focus Features, that begins in 2026. His current TV contract will keep him with Paramount through 2028.<\/p>\n More from The Hollywood Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n It is Sheridan\u2019s personal manifest-destiny to bring his sensibilities directly to NBCUniversal \u2014 especially to its streaming platform, Peacock, the unlikely home to Sheridan (and Paramount\u2019s) biggest show, Yellowstone<\/em>.<\/p>\n Yellowstone<\/em> debuted in 2018, two years years before Peacock was even a thing. Yellowstone<\/em> even predated the 2019 re-merging of CBS and Viacom, which formed the company that in 2022 was rebranded as Paramount Global. The smash-hit series also predated Paramount+ (2021), but certainly not its predecessor CBS All Access (2014).<\/p>\n In 2020, NBCU secured the Yellowstone<\/em> streaming rights for its fledgling streamer. By then, Yellowstone<\/em> was averaging a few-million viewers per episode, quite good for basic cable (Nielsen did not at the time measure streaming viewership), but not the runaway freight train it would become. If it was \u201cquite good for basic cable,\u201d and it was, it was incredible for Paramount Network \u2014 the former Spike TV that, in its new iteration, was anything but a household name. By its season three finale<\/a>, Yellowstone<\/em> had replaced AMC\u2019s The Walking Dead<\/em> as the top series on cable television.<\/p>\n Seeing the error of its ways, Paramount would go on to order roughly 100 Yellowstone<\/em> spinoffs, sequels and prequels, hoarding all of the multi-platform rights for itself. The Yellowstone<\/em> universe has (or soon will have) 1923<\/em>, 1883<\/em> spinoffs, 1944<\/em>, The Dutton Ranch<\/em>, The Madison<\/em>, Y: Marshals<\/em> and maybe 6666<\/em>. The prolific Sheridan also more than dabbles outside the Dutton-family ranch gates with Mayor of Kingstown<\/em>, Tulsa King<\/em>, Lioness<\/em> and Landman<\/em>.<\/p>\n The good news here is that Paramount Skydance keeps all of that, present and future. It also gets the next two-plus years of whatever the prolific Sheridan\u2019s brain comes up with \u2014 Paramount will reap what he sows.<\/p>\n Paramount Global became \u201cParamount, a Skydance Corporation\u201d earlier this year when billionaire David Ellison purchased control of the company, merging it with his Skydance. Around the same time, Sheridan and Paramount partnered on a new studio in Texas<\/a>.<\/p>\n Paramount didn\u2019t originally sign over the Yellowstone<\/em> streaming rights just to be nice. They got paid, though certainly not what would soon become the series\u2019 fair market value \u2014 the show\u2019s ceiling was unforeseeable when the paperwork was signed.<\/p>\n Instead of ponying up whatever Sheridan conceived to be his 2025 FMV, the young Paramount Skydance has elected to cut huge checks to the South Park<\/em> guys<\/a> and the Stranger Things<\/em> guys<\/a>. Not only is Sheridan<\/em> expensive, his shows are too. When Chris McCarthy was in charge<\/a> of Paramount Global\u2019s streaming and cable and Keyes Hill-Edgar was his chief operating officer, Sheridan got what he wanted: total control, unlimited greenlights and huge budgets. Ellison is not McCarthy, and word is the two have clashed.<\/p>\n All the while, NBCUniversal was waiting with the Brinks wagon \u2014 when you\u2019re a cowboy, sometimes you step in shit.<\/p>\n Best of The Hollywood Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for THR’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was written when, in 2020, Paramount Global (then ViacomCBS) licensed the Yellowstone streaming rights to Peacock. 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