Published: 22:56 BST, 19 August 2026 | Updated: 05:08 BST, 20 August 2026
Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan has confirmed that a once touted possible spin-off 6666 has been scrapped.
On Yellowstone, Jefferson White's character Jimmy Hurdstrom leaves the show's Montana setting to work on the real 6666 Ranch in Texas.
Sheridan, 56, acquired the historic property after its previous owner's death, strengthening rumors that a new series might eventually be set there.
However, Sheridan has now clarified that the project will not proceed because of his aversion to the idea of 'trivializing' the lives of the real people he employs on the ranch.
'I would never fictionalize that ranch,' he said on Tuesday's episode of the podcast Rodeo Time.
Although 'people thought that that was gonna be,' the showrunner insisted: 'That's never gonna happen.'
Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan has confirmed that a once touted possible spin-off 6666 has been scrapped. Above, Sheridan in 2021
On Yellowstone, Jefferson White's character Jimmy Hurdstrom – pictured (left) with Denim Richards as Colby (right) – leaves Montana to work on the real 6666 Ranch in Texas
The Daily Mail has contacted a representative for Sheridan for further comment.
The original Yellowstone series included occasional scenes of Jimmy's life on the 6666 Ranch, with actual workers there featuring in the supporting parts.
'I've actually got on my computer all the scenes of Jimmy at the 6666 pulled out and strung together, and it makes its own perfect little movie where you watch him go there as this misfit and leave a man and a respected cowboy,' said Sheridan.
He observed that viewers 'who are in the cowboy world' were able to recognize Heath Ownbey, the real-life cattle manager of the Waggoner Ranch, 'and so for the people who know, that rings really true to them.'
However, the prospect of manufacturing new storylines on a full-out spin-off would involve 'making up lives. Now I have to invent a drama. We can't just watch a kid learn how to rope every single episode,' Sheridan noted.
'So now I'm trivializing and fictionalizing something where real people work and they raise their families there, and I could never do that to them.'