Although “Yellowstone” is now in its fifth and closing season on Paramount Community, its sequence premiere simply landed on broadcast TV for the primary time, bringing 6.6 million viewers to CBS on Sunday night time.
This marks a considerable leap from the episode’s 2.8 million viewers when it first premiered again in 2018 — although that was to be anticipated, as CBS reaches a bigger viewers than its sister cable networks, and “Yellowstone” has since develop into a significant hit. For a newer comparability, Paramount Community’s airing of the Season 5 premiere in November drew 8.8 million viewers, and simulcasts throughout Nation Music Tv, TVLand and Pop TV introduced that quantity as much as 10.5 million.
Sunday’s “Yellowstone” episode additionally benefitted from lead-in from “60 Minutes,” which aired proper earlier than and drew 11.4 million viewers. The sequence will proceed to air so as, with two episodes per week besides on NFL doubleheader nights, when just one episode will air.
CBS is airing “Yellowstone” and different titles from throughout the Paramount ecosystem as a method to fill out its fall slate amid the continuing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. For “Yellowstone” particularly, the transfer is smart — Selection TV critic Aramide Tinubu wrote that the sequence’ “new broadcast house is exactly the place the large and wildly entertaining epic ought to have been from the start.”
“Yellowstone” was the primary Taylor Sheridan-created sequence for Paramount World, however has since develop into a full universe. Prequel sequence “1883” premiered on Paramount+ in 2022, as did prequel sequence “1923,” which will return for a second season. “Lawmen: Bass Reeves” will premiere on Paramount+ in November as a by-product of “1883,” whereas “6666” heads to Paramount Community. “1944” is in improvement as a sequel to “1923,” and one other untitled spinoff can also be within the works.
