Yellowstone 6666 Official Release Date Confirmed!

Taylor Sheridan keeps expanding his universe. The Yellowstone mastermind and sole writer will helm a new series that serves as a spinoff of the Paramount Network megahit, but also brings something new to the franchise. It’s set and filmed at a real ranch known as the 6666 — pronounced “Four Sixes,” as in four cards of a kind. The ranch is a massive operation in Texas that boasts a “legacy of people with passion, quarter horses with pedigree and cattle with heritage.” It’s the ranch where Jimmy (Jefferson White) was sent on Yellowstone when he couldn’t get his act together, and it also just so happens to be owned by Sheridan himself. He bought the ranch with a buyer group in 2021, and now it will serve as the backdrop for his upcoming cowboy epic.

The spinoff was announced in February 2021, and news was sparse until Sheridan explained in a June 2023 Hollywood Reporter profile that there was a good reason for the delay. “[6666], for a number of reasons, needs a unique level of special care because this is a real place with real families working here,” he told the trade. “You have to respect the lineage. I’ve told [the studio] to be patient.”

So what do we know about the series and the ranch it will highlight? Here’s everything to know about the Four Sixes so far.

‘6666’ release date

TLDR: No release date is available yet.

THE DETAILS: Sheridan hasn’t finalized the concept, the cast or anything else about the series so a release date is not yet available, but we’ll let you know here when it is.

‘6666’ cast

TLDR: No one has been cast just yet.

THE DETAILS: While no official cast has been announced, there are some educated guesses to be made. On Yellowstone, Jimmy (Jefferson White) was sent to the Four Sixes when he kept causing trouble on the Dutton ranch. There, he met vet tech Emily (Kathryn Kelly). They fell in love, and Jimmy began to feel at home at the Four Sixes. When we last saw him on Yellowstone, he had decided to stay there with his new fiancee Emily, so it would be no surprise if the show features Jimmy and Emily living and working at the ranch.

‘6666’ plot

TLDR: Sheridan is still working on it.

THE DETAILS: While the specific details of the plot are still being worked out with care and consideration for the real people working and living on the ranch (including Sheridan himself), there’s a lot to be learned about the ranch’s real legacy, which has some similarities to Yellowstone

The ranch was established in 1900 by rancher and oilman Samuel Burnett. He died in 1920, and the ranch was passed down to his granddaughter Anne Valliant Burnett Tandy, and in 1980, it passed to his great-granddaughter, Anne Windfohr Marion, a larger-than-life billionaire businesswoman who owned seven homes, married four times, and founded the Georgia O’Keeffe museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She served as chair of her family’s oil company and was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. She studied art history in Geneva, Switzerland and was a beauty queen, named Duchess of Texas in 1957.

Sheridan met Marion in 2019 to pitch her some storylines set at the ranch and promised to make the Four Sixes “the most famous ranch in America.” Marion granted her approval of to a scene in which Jimmy learned to masturbate a horse, as long as she got to pick the horse. Marion died in early 2020, and the estate called Sheridan and offered him a chance to purchase the ranch to keep it from being broken up into pieces — the same fate the Duttons are trying to avoid on Yellowstone.

In order to purchase the ranch, Sheridan made a new deal with Paramount Global, and now he’s essentially making TV shows in order to fund the ranch. While none of this has been confirmed to be part of the series, it certainly ensures that there’s a lot of inspiration to pull from as Sheridan works to honor the ranch on screen.

‘6666’ trailer

THE DETAILS: Filming hasn’t begun, so there is no trailer yet. But we will update this post when a trailer is released.

Where to watch ‘6666’

THE DETAILS: 6666 will air on Paramount Network before streaming on Paramount+.