Paramount+ has made it official that its hit series Tulsa King will return for a third season. The new season of the Taylor Sheridan crime drama starring Sylvester Stallone had been casting for months and started production earlier this week in Atlanta and Oklahoma.
Dave Erickson, writer, executive producer and showrunner on another Sheridan series for Paramount+, Mayor of Kingstown, is executive producer and showrunner on the new season. As Deadline reported in October, that possibility was part of the overall deal he signed with MTV Entertainment Studios, which produces all Sheridan shows with 101 Studios.
Season 3 of Tulsa King was cleared for takeoff after series star and executive producer Stallone closed a new deal in November to continue on the show for two more seasons with a major salary increase.
As Deadline reported at the time, Stallone’s two-year deal paved the way for Season 3 and Season 4 of Tulsa King, with a Season 3 renewal announced today. I hear Season 4 will be coming behind it.
Tulsa King‘s Season 2 opener set a Paramount+ record for most watched global premiere at the time with reported 21.1 million global streaming viewers. Tulsa King S2, alongside two other Sheridan series for Paramount+, Landman and Lioness, ranked in the Top 10 of U.S. streaming original series for Q4, marking only the second time since Nielsen began tracking SVOD platforms in 2017 that a service other than Netflix has had 3 of the top 10 series.
Season 2 of Tulsa King, which wrapped its run in November, followed Dwight “The General” Manfredi (Stallone) and his crew as they encountered new enemies when they encroached on nemesis territory in Tulsa.
Produced by MTV Entertainment Studios and 101 Studios, Tulsa King is executive produced by Sheridan, Stallone, showrunner Erickson, David C. Glasser, Ron Burkle, Bob Yari, David Hutkin, Braden Aftergood, Jim McKay, Sheri Elwood, Ildy Modrovich and Keith Cox.
After Season 1 showrunner Terence Winter stepped down from the post — he later returned as a writer –Season 2 of Tulsa King didn’t have a traditional showrunner, with Craig Zisk joining as executive producer and director.
