The neo-Western family drama returns in November.
When Yellowstone returns for its final stretch of episodes, the season 5, part 2 premiere will air on CBS in addition to its normal home on the Paramount Network, the corporate siblings announced Thursday.
The premiere episode will debut on Paramount Network at 8 p.m. ET/PT and follow on CBS at 10 p.m. ET/PT, giving viewers who don’t have access to the former channel a chance to catch it on network television.
The return of the hit family saga has been a long time coming for fans. The last new episodes of Yellowstone aired nearly two years ago, in January 2023, before the dual Hollywood writers’ and actors’ strikes delayed filming and before former star Kevin Costner left the series early to work on his Horizon movies.
Yellowstone star Kelly Reilly, who plays Beth Dutton, recently told Entertainment Weekly that she ended up appreciating the break in some ways.
“With the strikes and with changes with certain things, everything got delayed longer than anybody wanted,” she said. “In a weird way, having a little break meant that you’re coming back to something that you’re not taking for granted, and the scripts were so good. So good. We got to finish something rather than draw something out or prolong it.”
But the cast members are sympathetic to fans who have missed seeing the latest obstacles and challenges the Duttons have faced to their way of life. Really.
“Some of them are mad as hell that we’ve taken so long,” Reilly said, “but we’re like, ‘It’s not our fault! We wanted to go to work!'”
Luke Grimes, who plays Kayce Dutton, added that he’d been “itching to get back to the show and I’m so glad it finally worked out and we got to finish strong.”
The last time audiences saw the Duttons, Beth was once again clashing with her brother Jamie (played by Wes Bentley), who was working against his family’s plan to hold onto their property and their way of life. Beth’s husband, Rip (Cole Hauser), was taking the ranch’s cowboys from Montana to Texas.
While Costner’s character, family patriarch John Dutton, won’t be around for the conclusion of the series, Reilly said that won’t affect Beth’s end goal.
“It changes nothing as far as Beth’s desire to protect her family’s lineage,” she said. “In fact it becomes more urgent.”