Overview

• Paramount+ confirmed the Season 4 pickup on Sept. 17, just days before the Season 3 premiere on Sunday, Sept. 21.
• Terence Winter will serve as executive producer and head writer for Season 4, while Season 3 showrunner Dave Erickson exits to focus on Mayor of Kingstown.
• Season 3 rolls out weekly and spans nine episodes, with a storyline that pits Dwight Manfredi’s growing operation against the powerful Dunmire family.
• Samuel L. Jackson guest stars this season as Russell Lee Washington Jr. before headlining the greenlit spinoff NOLA King, which is targeting an early 2026 shoot.
• Paramount+ cites 21.1 million global viewers for the Season 2 premiere; Deadline reports talks for another Stallone deal that could extend the series further, and early reviews call Season 3 the show’s strongest yet.