Today, Paramount+ announced that production is underway on the highly anticipated Tulsa King Season 2, which will star Oscar nominee Sylvester Stallone.
Executive-produced by Oscar nominee Taylor Sheridan, the comedy is set to film in Oklahoma and Atlanta. Multi-award nominee Craig Zisk (Weeds, The Larry Sanders Show) will direct and executive produce.
Academy Award nominee Terence Winter (The Wolf of Wall Street, The Sopranos) is slated to return as writer and executive producer. Tulsa King Season 2 is produced by MTV Entertainment Studios and 101 Studios exclusively for Paramount+.
Tulsa King continues to be one of Paramount+’s most-watched series of all time, ranking second only behind Sheridan’s 1923. The show’s premiere in November 2022, coupled with the NFL on CBS, set a new record for subscriber growth in a single day since Paramount+’s launch and was the most-watched series on the service while in season.
Season one of Tulsa King will air on CBS this summer before season two launches this fall. This is the most recent example of Paramount Global’s strategy of bringing Paramount+ originals to new audiences on its linear platforms.
The series follows New York mafia capo Dwight “The General” Manfredi just after he is released from prison after 25 years and is unceremoniously exiled by his boss to set up shop in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Realizing that his mob family may not have his best interests in mind, Dwight slowly builds a crew from a group of unlikely characters to help him establish a new criminal empire in a place that, to him, might as well be another planet.
Season one recurring stars Annabella Sciorra and Tatiana Zappardino have been upped to series regulars for the second season alongside an incredible ensemble cast that includes Andrea Savage, Martin Starr, Max Casella, Domenick Lombardozzi, Vincent Piazza, and Jay Will, with Garrett Hedlund and Dana Delany.
Creator and Oscar nominee Taylor Sheridan returns as executive producer. Sylvester Stallone, David C. Glasser, Terence Winter, Ron Burkle, Bob Yari, David Hutkin, and Braden Aftergood also executive produce Tulsa King.
In addition to Tulsa King Season 2, Sheridan’s growing slate on Paramount+ includes 1883 and Mayor of Kingstown, which is currently in production on its third season, Special Ops: Lioness, Lawmen: Bass Reeves, 1923, which will be going into production on its second season later this year, and the upcoming all-new series Landman, starring Billy Bob Thornton.
Mirko Parlevliet has been reporting on the entertainment industry since 1998 and founded Vital Thrills in 2018 to cover the latest news on streaming, movies, TV, and video games.