Overview
- Netflix officially issued a straight-to-series greenlight for a new ongoing adaptation of Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove, a move publicized on Wednesday and reported by the project’s partners.
- Writers Zoe Kazan and Jeb Stuart are attached as co-showrunners and executive producers and will write the adaptation for Teton Ridge Entertainment and the McMurtry estate.
- The series is billed to follow Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call on one final, perilous cattle drive from the Rio Grande toward Montana and is planned as a multi-episode, ongoing drama rather than a limited miniseries.
- Independent studio Teton Ridge acquired the Lonesome Dove franchise rights earlier in 2026 and packaged the show for Netflix after a months-long process to clear a complex set of literary and adaptation rights.
- The announcement revives a property best known for the 1989 CBS miniseries that drew large audiences and multiple awards, and it raises expectations about casting, production start dates, and how Netflix will position a prestige Western for new viewers.