Taylor Sheridan, the creative force behind the hit TV series “Yellowstone,” said he pitched the show to cable giant HBO, but a network vice president told him it was “so middle America.”
“Yellowstone,” a modern Western family drama starring Kevin Costner as patriarch John Dutton, who controls the largest contiguous cattle ranch in the U.S., is amid its fifth and final season on the Paramount Network.
Sheridan told The Hollywood Reporter in a story published Wednesday that “Yellowstone” ended up in series development at HBO. He said the programming director at the time, Michael Lombardo, liked the idea but the rest of his team wasn’t onboard.
WATCH TODD’S COMMENTARY ON NEWSMAX: During a meeting with a senior vice president at HBO, whom Sheridan would not name, regarding the network’s reluctance in greenlighting his show, Sheridan said the person told him the show was a step backward for the network.“We go to […]
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