Taylor Sheridan just might be one of the most prolific and successful creators in television history. With mega hits like Yellowstone, Dutton Ranch, The Madison, and Landman to his credit, he always keeps audiences enthralled. In addition, Sheridan has apparently crafted a new template for portraying the modern American West. Call it a updated kind of frontier sensibility. It's gutsy and gripping. And he wrote the playbook. There sounded like yet another Taylor Sheridan show in the works, but he has evidently nixed that one for good.
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Sheridan Gave a Firm Thumbs-Down to '6666'
Per Page Six, way back in early 2021, Paramount+ reportedly teased a Yellowstone spinoff about Sheridan's actual ranch, the Four Sixes. However, on August 17, the Western TV drama mastermind doused any hope of such a show materializing. Taylor Sheridan said on the Rodeo Time podcast, "There's never going to be one; I would never fictionalize that ranch. People thought that that was going to be a thing, but I would never do that."
He Was Forthcoming About Why He Feels That Way
Sheridan's decision, he explained, was due to the high regard he has for the people who are employed on his ranch. "So now I'm trivializing and fictionalizing something where real people work, and they raise their families there, and I could never do that to them. I could never do that to the cowboys that dedicated themselves, and everybody that works on that ranch."
He added, "I'm very protective of the Sixes, and it's a big responsibility to be the person who has to protect that brand. So I have to be very, very careful with it."
That Ranch Sounds Amazing
It's too bad that the show will not happen. The Four Sixes ranch is definitely quite a remarkable place. Per Page Six, "Sheridan's investment group purchased the historic property for an estimated $350 million in early 2022." It seems as if he is immersed for real in the authentic ranching lifestyle, not just pretending to be for the sake of Hollywood. Perhaps that is a reason why Taylor Sheridan's dramas are so gritty, intense, and wonderfully true-to-life.
