The latest Taylor Sheridan-produced drama premieres Nov. 17 on Paramount+.
Just one week after the Nov. 10 kickoff for the “final cycle” of Yellowstone, multitasking multihyphenate Taylor Sheridan will expand his universe once again with the premiere of Landman, a contemporary drama starring Billy Bob Thornton as oil company crisis manager Tommy Norris. Demi Moore, John Hamm, Andy Garcia and Michael Peña also figure prominently in the series, which will launch Nov. 17 for a 10-episode first season on Paramount +.
According to Paramount, “Landman is set in the proverbial boomtowns of West Texas, and is a modern-day tale of fortune-seeking in the world of oil rigs. The series is an upstairs/downstairs story of roughnecks and wildcat billionaires who are fueling a boom so big, it’s reshaping our climate, our economy and our geopolitics.”
“I’m a fixer and a foreman,” Thornton described his character to Vanity Fair. “Even though I work with the head guy, I also work very closely with the people out in the field. I check the wells every day, get the information to give him. I deal with the landowners, and if something happens on that land, if there’s an accident on the rig, I’ve got to solve that problem and go deal with the lawyers.
“There aren’t really a lot of scenes where my character comes home and says, ‘My God, was my day amazing!’ I slink into the house every day like somebody just beat the hell out of me.”

Co-stars include Michelle Randolph of Sheridan’s 1923, who’ll play Ainsley Norris, Tommy’s wild and strong-willed 17-year-old daughter; and Jacob Lofland (12 Mighty Orphans) as Cooper Norris, who’s still accustoming himself to the demanding work in the oil and gas fields of West Texas.
Rounding out the cast: Ali Larter (The Last Victim), Kayla Wallace (When Calls the Heart), James Jordan (Yellowstone), Mark Collie (Nashville) and Paulina Chávez (The Expanding Universe of Ashley Garcia).
Landman was co-created by Sheridan and Christian Wallace, and based on Boomtown, the well-received 11-part Texas Monthly podcast that was written and hosted by Wallace. It’s the latest addition to Sheridan’s growing slate of series on Paramount+, a lineup that includes, in addition to Yellowstone spinoffs 1883 and 1923, Lioness, Mayor of Kingstown, Tulsa King and Lawmen: Bass Reeves. Landman is produced by MTV Entertainment Studios, 101 Studios, and Sheridan’s Bosque Ranch Productions exclusively for Paramount+.
Photography: Sarah Coulter