Taylor Sheridan and his cowboy empire are leaving the Paramount mountain

Not a single thought going through his head.

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Not how you’re supposed to play the game…

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Taylor Sheridan will leave Paramount for NBCUniversal beginning in 2029. This is somewhat shocking news, as Sheridan was long considered Paramount’s golden goose.

“On Paramount+ today, we have a really great foundation, which is the Taylor Sheridan universe,” Paramount’s Chair of Direct-to-Consumer Cindy Holland said in August.

Sheridan’s current Paramount series include Mayor of Kingstown, Landman, Lioness, Tulsa King, and three upcoming Yellowstone spinoffs, Beth & Rip and The Madison for Paramount+ and Y: Marshals for CBS.

Paramount Global co-CEO Chris McCarthy, who was closely involved with Sheridan’s projects, left the company after the Paramount-Skydance merger. From some reporting, McCarthy was more lenient with Sheridan’s budgets and production demands, and following the merger, Paramount started pulling that back. The question, though, is what will Paramount offer other than a bunch of Star Trek franchises and a revamped CBS News, once Sheridan leaves? And does this loss suggest that Paramount is even more determined to acquire Warner Bros. to make up for a now gaping hole in their well of talent?

And where does Jon Stewart and The Daily Show land with the new regime? He’s still trying to work that out.

Who is leaving CBS News and Paramount: John Dickerson. Dickerson was a co-host of CBS Evening News and had been with CBS News since 2009. His mother, Nancy Dickerson, was CBS News’ first female correspondent.

Speaking of Paramount, CBS News was the only network to not cover President Corrupto’s pardon of money-laundering cryptocurrency billionaire Changpeng Zhao. Even Fox News covered it. HUH. WEIRD.

As for MSNBC, be prepared to start calling it MSNOW on November 15.

Sounds like we might have our new Crockett and Tubbs.

I only realized I liked the mustache after it was gone. I also only put together that Captain Nick was Kevin from Shameless (maybe my favorite character?) once the mustache was shaved because I wasn’t paying much attention.

JUST RENEW IT ALREADY.

You know what? I’m not even going to argue with this list of the best pilot episodes of all time. Pilot episodes are nearly impossible to pull off, but the top five on this list were nothing short of genius.

Heidi Gardner will be Ego Nwodim’s first guest on the second season of her podcast this week. Wonder what they’ll have to talk about?

Bobby Moynihan has some good advice for the SNL cast who remain: “I wish them all luck, and I wish the ones who are there that they have a good therapist and good sleep.”

These stars suggest saying no to Saturday Night Live isn’t the mistake it sounds like it would be. (Well, maybe not Andy Dick.)

Lily Allen’s new album makes some bold accusations against ex-husband David Harbour, and just in time for Stranger Things 5 to come out!

Can’t a man take a vacation? Damn.

Netflix is shutting down the video game studio that made Squid Game Unleashed and other games.

Lonesome Dove, one of the greatest miniseries ever made, originated as a John Wayne, Henry Fonda, and Jimmy Stewart movie script, before being turned into a novel, which was then turned into a miniseries. I always assumed McMuty wrote it as a novel first, which shows what I knows. (I just recently watched the miniseries for the first time. Don’t look at me like that; I grew up in a time when if you missed something on TV, you missed it until it came back around again. And when Lonesome Dove the miniseries came out, 16-year-old me had better things to do than watch a miniseries about white-haired cowboys.)

OK. Why not. 

As for the other Stark children, congratulations, Isaac Hempstead Wright!

Reminder: Kamala Harris was right about everything. 

Renewals

In Development

  • Who’s In The Band, a music competition series with Simon Cowell as one of the judges, is in the works at ABC.

Casting News

  • Rena Sofer is leaving General Hospital on ABC. (Again.)

Mark Your Calendar

  • Memory of a Killer will premiere on Fox in January.
  • Little Disasters will debut on Paramount+ on December 11.
  • My Nightmare Stalker: The Eva LaRue Story premieres on November 13 on Paramount+.
  • The Rocky Mountain Mortician Murder premieres on ID on November 26.
  • As You Stood By will premiere on Netflix on November 7.

R.I.P.

June Lockhart, Legendary actress in Lost in Space, Lassie, and Meet Me in St. Louis

Tony Adams, British actor who appeared in Crossroads, General Hospital (UK version), and Doctor Who, among others

Björn Andrésen, Teen actor in Death in Venice and subject of the documentary The Most Beautiful Boy in the World

Nick Mangold, Former New York Jet

WATCH THIS

IT: Alright — we are entering the last week of Halloween, I’m afraid, so time to get serious and really lean into the scaries. If you enjoyed the new IT series on HBO, maybe go back and watch the excellent 2017 movie (the first one, not the disappointing second). 6:45 p.m., IFC

World Series Game 3: Speaking of 2017, I hate the Dodgers because they are a bunch of whiny babies. So I was already rooting against them in this series. But then President Tariffs went and gave me a reason to actively root for the Blue Jays and so here we are. Go birds. 6 p.m., Fox

The Sixth Sense: No, but seriously, what happened to M. Night Shyamalan? Because for real, this is a perfect movie. 8 p.m., HBO

Late Night:

  • Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: James Corden, Lindsey Vonn, Big Thief
  • Late Night with Seth Meyers: Ethan Hawke, Zadie Smith
  • The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: Emma Thompson, Judd Apatow, Thundercat featuring Remi Wolf
  • Jimmy Kimmel Live: Tim Allen, Katherine LaNasa, Miguel
  • The Daily Show: TBA
  • Watch What Happens Live: Capt. Sandy Yawn, Joe Bradley

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