Beth (Kelly Reilly) and Rip’s (Cole Hauser) spinoff title was just announced, and it confirms that the show will look as close as possible to the original, emulating Yellowstone season 6. Despite Yellowstone dominating television for five seasons, executive producer Taylor Sheridan closed out his original series in December 2024. Yellowstone season 5 saw the death of John Dutton III after Kevin Costner’s Yellowstone exit, which prompted the discontinuation of the flagship. However, ahead of the finale, a casting deal broke the news that Reilly and Hauser would reprise Beth Dutton and Rip Wheeler in an offshoot.
Taylor Sheridan has another modern-day Yellowstone saga in the works, starring Michelle Pfeiffer as Stacy Clyburn, but we don’t know much about The Madison’s story yet. The franchise has also teased a Yellowstone spinoff titled 6666, which would follow life on the Four Sixes Ranch in Texas. Additionally, Sheridan will add another prequel about the Dutton family into the mix, with his teased 1944 presumably picking up where 1923 season 2’s finale left off, albeit 20 years later. However, of all Yellowstone’s new shows, including Kayce Dutton’s (Luke Grimes), Beth and Rip’s show will most resemble Yellowstone.
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Beth & Rip’s Spinoff Title Makes It Look Even More Like Yellowstone’s Successor: Beth Dutton And Rip Wheeler’s Show Is Called Dutton Ranch
Beth and Rip were the obvious choices to lead Yellowstone if it continued. There was a lot of buzz about Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser taking over for Kevin Costner as the neo-Western leads before their spinoff announcement. Still, while Taylor Sheridan decided to create a new show for Beth and Rip’s continuation, the lovebirds’ offshoot will echo the original, with its title as proof. A report from Bloomberg announced that Beth and Rip’s spinoff will reportedly be called Dutton Ranch. Presumably, the title is the namesake of the couple’s new ranch in Dillon, which we get a glimpse of in Yellowstone season 5’s finale.
This moniker sounds familiar, since John’s original ranch was called the Yellowstone Dutton Ranch. Dropping “Yellowstone” and keeping “Dutton Ranch” makes it clear that Beth and Rip aren’t hiding their connections to the former largest contiguous ranch in the United States. Sheridan leans into Beth and Rip’s spinoff’s robust connection to Yellowstone. Dutton Ranch is arguably the strongest connection Sheridan could make to the original show and ranch without copying it, especially considering the Dutton-Wheeler property won’t sit adjacent to the Yellowstone National Park, which gave the original ranch and series its title.
