Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone spin-off Marshals is set to return on CBS for a second season this week. Its comeback extends the franchise beyond the streaming service and follows a first season that struggled critically, partly because its network procedural format differed sharply from the sprawling neo-Western family drama audiences expected.

Marshals is the only Yellowstone series created specifically for network television, while earlier spin-offs 1883 and 1923 established a more ambitious standard for the franchise. The article places its return within Sheridan’s expanding television slate, which also includes The Madison, Dutton Ranch, Lioness and Tulsa King, while noting that Sheridan has moved from Paramount to NBCUniversal even as several of his shows remain on Paramount+.