Taylor Sheridan despises Hollywood so much that he basically built his own in the confines of his home state of Texas.
The writer, director and creator of shows like Yellowstone, its prequel and sequel spinoffs, and his most recent hits, Landman and The Madison, has long been a supporter of the state of Texas. That’s probably because it’s the state he currently resides in, as he lives in Weatherford, Texas at his Bosque Ranch. He also sometimes resides at his 6666 Ranch in Guthrie, Texas – which was featured in the Yellowstone series (and officially won’t have its own spinoff).
Sheridan has basically built the infrastructure to do everything he needs to do for film and television in the Lone Star State. It was actually in 2025 that he and Paramount teamed up to create a production studio called SGS Studios – which is officially the largest TV and film production studio in Texas.
Sheridan and his current streaming home (he’ll soon be moving to NBCUniversal) worked with real estate development company Hillwood to bring the studio hub to the Dallas Fort Worth area:
“Hillwood, a Perot Company, today announced a landmark partnership with SGS Studios, which will operate the venture and oversee all production services, to bring large-scale film and television production to the 27,000-acre AllianceTexas development in Fort Worth.
In collaboration with Paramount Television — the studio behind cultural landmarks like Yellowstone and Landman — SGS Studios has launched a cutting-edge production campus totaling 450,000 square feet, purpose-built to support four concurrent large-scale productions. This development marks the largest operating studio facility in Texas.”
Sheridan has also become a big fan of shooting scenes in and around the Fort Worth area. The Texas city was utilized for the two seasons of The Madison that were shot back-to-back, and Dutton Ranch – the Beth Dutton and Rip Wheeler-focused Yellowstone sequel that stars Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser.
And like many things that Taylor Sheridan does, it’s all been a bit of a middle finger to Los Angeles and Hollywood. The writer and director has been quoted saying that he puts things into shows to specifically upset critics and those still in Hollywood, and in a recent interview on the Rodeo Time podcast, he called Los Angles an “awful place.”
He’s not the only one that’s said that in recent years. Country star Tracy Lawrence and singer/actor Ryan Bingham have also shared that they are pretty much done with California, just like Taylor Sheridan. While the Yellowstone creator was sitting across from Dale Brisby in the interview, he dropped this line about how he’s Tinsel Town’s biggest name… and he hasn’t stepped foot in the city in almost a decade:
“I’m the biggest content creator in Hollywood, and I haven’t been to that sorry son of a b*tch in seven years… I said I’ll do it from Granberry, Texas.”
And that he has done.
Sheridan has single handedly made Texas one of the premiere places to shoot TV and movies, and his move has inspired others to follow suit. The Dallas Morning News reported that Taylor Sheridan’s efforts have brought nearly $1 billion in revenue and 50,000 jobs to the area in the past decade or so. And those already impressive numbers could continue to go up thanks to a move by Texas legislators in 2025 that allowed for $1.5 billion in film incentives over the next 10 years.
In other words, Hollywood isn’t the giant that it used to be, and Sheridan is proving that by erecting his base camp in the Lone Star State. You can hear him talk more about that in the interview below:
Rodeo Time Podcast with Dale Brisby – Taylor Sheridan
