The Madison has been renewed for a third season just weeks after the Season 1 finale.
After the smash successes of Yellowstone, Landman, and other viewer favorites, mega-producer Taylor Sheridan rarely loses sleep, or wastes time, while fretting about whether his latest show will be green-lit for additional seasons.
And why should he?
Consider: After CBS aired only two Season 1 episodes of Marshals, the Yellowstone spin-off featuring Luke Grimes reprising his role as Kayce Dutton, the network announced they had sealed the deal for a second season.
And now Paramount+ has spread the news that Sheridan’s The Madison, which recently completed a six-episode Season 1 run, will stick around for a third season.
No, that’s not a typo.
According to The Hollywood Reporter: “The Madison received a unique rollout from the streamer, releasing over two weekends in March. The first three episodes streamed on Saturday, March 14, followed by the final three a week later on March 21. The family-grief drama became the biggest original series launch yet for a Sheridan show on the streamer, according to Paramount+, and debuted to 8 million viewers globally during its first 10 days.”
Under normal circumstances, that would be sufficient impetus for a rapid-fire Season 2 renewal. But, hey, when was the last time anything about a Taylor Sheridan project was normal?
Sure enough, Season 2 episodes were already locked and loaded before the first season aired. Or streamed. Or whatever.
As the Deadline showbiz site reported, “[W]hile a second season of The Madison was never officially announced, it was quietly filmed last fall and is in the can. It is unclear yet whether it will premiere later this year or in early 2027.
“Seasons 1 and 2 consist of six episodes each, fewer than the other series in the Taylor Sheridan universe, whose seasons span 8-10 episodes.”
The number of episodes for Season 3 has yet to be announced. But how much do you want to bet that number will have more than one digit?
For the benefit of those who tuned in late: The Madison, according to the Paramount+ logline, “is Sheridan’s most intimate work to date, unfolding across two distinct worlds – the beautiful landscape of Montana and the vibrant energy of Manhattan – as it examines the ties that bind families together. Introducing the Clyburns, [the series] is a heartfelt study of grief and human connection following a New York City family in the Madison River Valley of central Montana.”
Season 1 — currently available for streaming on Paramount+ — focused primarily on Stacy Clyburn (Michelle Pfeiffer), the wealthy matriarch of a family that heads to Montana from New York City following the death of her husband and brother-in-law in a plane crash. It’s worth noting that the untimely demise of said husband, played by Kurt Russell, did not prevent Russell from appearing in flashbacks liberally sprinkled throughout the first season. That isn’t going to change for Season 2 and, presumably, Season 3.
By the way: That sort of storytelling structure really didn’t work in Monarch, the short-lived 2022 Fox drama about a country music dynasty. Susan Sarandon’s Dottie Roman, the “Queen of Country Music,” died in the series premiere, but lived on in flashbacks throughout the remaining 10 episodes. When the show was canceled, so was Dottie.
