‘Yellowstone’ Kayce Dutton Spinoff Official at CBS With Luke Grimes Returning

Kelli Boyle May 7, 2025, 5:00 pm

Luke Grimes in Yellowstone — Emerson Miller / ©Paramount Network / courtesy Everett Collection

UPDATE (05/07/2025 at 5:00 p.m. ET): The Kayce Dutton Yellowstone spinoff at CBS is confirmed. The network revealed its working title, Y: Marshals, during a press event on Wednesday, May 7, in Los Angeles, in addition to when it will air during the 2025-2026 season. It’s getting a sweet primetime slot.

Starring Luke Grimes as his Yellowstone character, Kayce Dutton, who joins an elite unit of U.S. Marshals. Y: Marshals will be a midseason premiere on CBS and will air on Sundays at 9/8c (see the full CBS fall 2025-2026 schedule here). The official logline says Kayce will be “combining his skills as a cowboy and Navy SEAL to bring range justice to Montana, where he and his teammates must balance family, duty, and the high psychological cost that comes with serving as the last line of defense in the region’s war on violence,” per Deadline.

Spencer Hudnut is showrunner and executive producer. Hudnut was previously the showrunner for CBS’ SEAL Team. Y: Marshals is produced by MTV Entertainment Studios with Taylor Sheridan along with David C. Glasser as executive producer for 101 Studios as well as John Linson, Art Linson, Hudnut, Luke Grimes, Ron Burkle, David Hutkin, and Bob Yari. The series is distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution.

CBS President Amy Reisenbach said “we don’t do cheap” when asked if Y: Marshals will have similar production quality to Yellowstone. “Spencer Hudnut had run a broadcast show before,” Reisenbach said. “We do have a budget for that show that is in line with other broadcast series.”

This marks the first time that Sheridan isn’t at the helm of a Yellowstone series. Of Sheridan’s involvement in Y: Marshals outside of producing, Reisenbach said, “We’re still early in the process. He’s a very busy guy, so we’ll take what we can get.”

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ORIGINAL STORY (03/26/2025 at 5:36 p.m. ET): Taylor Sheridan shows just keep on coming. CBS is reportedly developing a Yellowstone spinoff (yes, another one), this time a procedural format starring Luke Grimes reprising his role as Kayce Dutton.

Yellowstone ended with Season 5 in December 2024, but a Beth and Rip spinoff starring Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser is going to continue the Dutton family’s onscreen story. Puck reports that a Kayce-focused spinoff is in the works at CBS and would be separate from the Beth and Rip series. Puck also reports that the Beth and Rip spinoff is now in pre-production after being announced in December around the time of the Yellowstone finale.

This Kayce spinoff would reportedly air on CBS instead of Paramount Network or Paramount+ like the other shows in the Yellowstone universe. Should it air on CBS, it would stream on Paramount+ instead of going to Peacock like Yellowstone does through a longterm licensing deal.

There are reportedly no deals in place yet for this rumored offshoot. Yellowstone shows are produced by MTV Entertainment Studios, but Deadline reports that CBS Studios is so far not involved in this potential Kayce spinoff either. There is, however, one CBS name that’s rumored to be working with this potential series: SEAL Team showrunner Spencer Hudnut.

CBS aired a couple of seasons of Yellowstone on the network during the Hollywood strikes in 2023. Fans were shocked by the level of censoring the series had to undergo (cable channels can include a lot more profanity and violence than broadcast programs). The Kayce series would presumably have to dial down expletives and violence as well, should it become a full-fledged CBS procedural.

No other cast members are mentioned as potential additions to this show, but a Kayce show without his wife and son (Kelsey Asbille‘s Monica and Brecken Merrill‘s Tate) would be odd.

Other Yellowstone spinoffs are all prequels. 1883 was the first, followed by 1923, currently in its second season. Both of the prequels are Paramount+ originals, but 1883 and 1923 Season 1 aired on Paramount Network in recent years.

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