The Beth and Rip Yellowstone spinoff series gets an exciting update as another character from the main series joins the new cast. Following the conclusion of Yellowstone in 2024, the franchise will be expanding with several new shows. The upcoming Beth Dutton and Rip Wheeler spinoff is set to take place after the series finale, and is now bringing back a character with deep ties to the pair.
Beth Dutton and Rip Wheeler’s family is staying intact: Paramount+’s forthcoming spinoff centered around Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser’s characters will also feature their son Carter, with actor Finn Little reprising his role as a series regular on the new show, our sister site Deadline reports.
Little made his Yellowstone debut in the Season 4 premiere as a troubled teen whose dr*g-addict father was dying. Beth and Rip became Carter’s guardian after his dad’s death, and the boy went on to work on their ranch through the fifth and final season. But Beth still had a difficult time accepting her new mother role, even blowing up at Carter for calling her “mama” in the Season 4 finale.
The report that Finn Little will join Beth and Rip in their Yellowstone spinoff confirms that the couple’s story will continue as laid out in Yellowstone season 5, episode 14. In the series finale, Carter moves with Dutton and Wheeler when they relocate to a ranch in Dillon, Montana. Carter settles in with his surrogate family, seemingly to stay.
His proximity to Reilly and Hauser’s leads will expand the stories their show can tell, since Carter is a central part of the couple’s arc as Yellowstone goes on.
With Carter sticking around in the Yellowstone universe, that means that he will continue living with Beth and Rip on their ranch. His proximity to Reilly and Hauser’s leads will expand the stories their show can tell, since Carter is a central part of the couple’s arc as Yellowstone goes on, having joined the show in season 4’s premiere.
The still-untitled Beth/Rip series will be set in the present-day timeline, allowing it to share much more DNA with Yellowstone than previous spinoffs 1923 and 1883, which, obviously, take place in the past. Not much else is known about the project at this point, but in March, the newsletter Puck reported that the drama was looking to cast a “Kevin Costner type” to star alongside Reilly and Hauser.
The Beth and Rip spinoff is one of many new Yellowstone offshoots from creator Taylor Sheridan coming to TV screens: Luke Grimes will return as rough-hewn rancher and former Livestock Commissioner Kayce Dutton in CBS’ Y: Marshals, premiering in spring 2026. “With the Yellowstone Ranch behind him, Dutton joins an elite unit of U.S. Marshals,” reads the official description. In his new job, Dutton combines “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.” There’s no word yet if Grimes will be joined by his TV wife Monica (played by Kelsey Asbille) and their son Tate (Brecken Merrill).
Additionally, Michelle Pfeiffer, Matthew Fox (Lost) and Patrick J. Adams (Suits) will star in Paramount+’s offshoot The Madison, which is described as “a heartfelt study of grief and human connection following a New York City family in the Madison River valley of central Montana.” The streamer also ordered 1944 all the way back in November 2023, but details about that series have yet to emerge.
