Taylor Sheridan’s ‘Landman’ Is Officially Changing Its Winning Formula

When it comes to television, Taylor Sheridan has developed a rather impressive habit of keeping audiences entertained throughout the year. Between Yellowstone, Tulsa King, Lioness, and his ever-expanding collection of Paramount+ dramas, there’s rarely a month when the filmmaker doesn’t have something new for fans to watch. However, one particular series has made November its own over the past two years. Just one small issue. This year, we’re going without.

Landman, Sheridan’s enormously successful Paramount+ drama, will break its November premiere tradition for the first time in 2026, with Season 3 not arriving this month. The series debuted on November 17, 2024, before returning for its second season on November 16, 2025, establishing an annual release pattern that audiences might reasonably have expected to continue, but with production on Season 3 only beginning in Fort Worth, Texas, on October 1, time has run out.

In Landman Season 1, we’re dropped into the oil fields of West Texas, and we meet the players of M-Tex Oil, including boots-on-the-ground exec Tommy Norris (Billy Bob Thornton), CEO Monty Miller, Monty’s wife Cami, and Tommy’s earnest, entrepreneurial son Cooper. By the season finale, with an ailing Monty on the verge of death, Tommy assumes the role of M-Tex president – and is terrorized by heavies from a Mexican drug cartel.

In Landman Season 2, Cami steps out of her late husband’s shadow to assume control of M-Tex. Meanwhile, Tommy (who was spared a grisly fate by the cartel boss Gallino) juggles an ever-complicated work and home life, the latter of which now includes his father, T.L. Cooper sees his oil fortunes rise – and his love life with Ariana move toward marriage.

The show that claimed the most of your answers is the world you were built for. If two tied, both are shown — you’re complicated enough to straddle two Sheridan universes.

You are a Dutton — or you might as well be. You understand that some things are worth protecting at any cost, and that the modern world’s indifference to history, to land, to legacy, is not something you’re willing to accept quietly. You lead from the front, you carry your family’s weight without complaint, and when someone threatens what’s yours, you don’t escalate — you finish it. You’re not cruel. But you are absolute. In Yellowstone’s world, that combination of ferocity and loyalty doesn’t make you a villain. It makes you the only thing standing between everything that matters and everyone who wants to take it.

You thrive in the chaos of high-stakes negotiation, where the money is enormous, the margins are thin, and the wrong word in the wrong room can cost everyone everything. You’re a fixer — the person called when a situation is already on fire and needs someone with the nerve to walk into it. West Texas oil country rewards exactly what you are: sharp, adaptable, unsentimental, and absolutely clear-eyed about what people want and what they’ll do to get it. You’re not naive enough to think this world is fair. You’re smart enough to be the one deciding who it’s fair to.

You are a Dwight Manfredi — someone who has served their time, paid their dues, and arrived somewhere unexpected with nothing but their reputation and their wits. You adapt without losing yourself. You build loyalty through respect rather than fear, though you’re not above reminding people that the two aren’t mutually exclusive. Tulsa King is for people who are still standing when everyone assumed they’d be finished — who find, in an unfamiliar place, that they’re more capable than the world gave them credit for. You don’t need a throne. You build one, wherever you happen to land.

You carry the weight of a system that is broken by design, and you do it anyway — because someone has to, and because you’re the only one positioned to do it without the whole thing collapsing. Mike McLusky’s world is for people who are comfortable operating where there are no good options, only less catastrophic ones. You speak every language: law enforcement, criminal, political, human. That fluency makes you invaluable and it makes you a target. You’ve made your peace with both. Mayor of Kingstown belongs to people who understand that keeping the peace is not the same as being at peace — and who do the job regardless.

Who Stars in ‘Landman’?

The series features Thornton (Sling Blade) as Tommy Norris, Demi Moore (The Substance) as Cami Miller, Ali Larter (Final Destination) as Angela Norris, Jacob Lofland (Mud) as Cooper Norris, Michelle Randolph (1923) as Ainsley Norris, Paulina Chávez (The Expanding Universe of Ashley Garcia) as Ariana Medina, Kayla Wallace (When Calls the Heart) as Rebecca Falcone, Andy Garcia (The Godfather Part III) as Gallino, and Sam Elliott (A Star Is Born) as Thomas “T.L.” Norris.

Additional cast members include James Jordan (Yellowstone) as Dale Bradley, Colm Feore (The Umbrella Academy) as Nathan, and Mark Collie (The Punisher) as Sheriff Walt Joeberg. Season 3 will also introduce Michael Kelly (House of Cards) as William Crockett, the leader of one of the world’s largest oil management firms. Meanwhile, Feore, Mustafa Speaks, Bobbi Salvör Menuez, and Francesca Xuereb have been promoted to series regulars for the upcoming season.

Both seasons of Landman are currently streaming on Paramount+, with Season 3 in production and an official premiere date yet to be announced. Stay tuned to Collider for all the latest news and updates on the biggest and best movies and shows heading to your favorite streaming platforms soon.

In the rugged terrain of West Texas, a team of landmen work to secure oil and gas leases, acting as intermediaries between landowners and energy corporations. The narrative centers on a driven landman whose ambitions in the energy sector lead him into complex negotiations and moral quandaries. The show explores the intense competition and the far-reaching consequences of the landmen’s deals, highlighting the intersection of personal ambition and the broader effects on the community and the natural world.