Kelly Reilly Confirms ‘Dutton Ranch’ Season 2 Filming Dates At Splashy Paramount UK Upfronts Featuring Kenneth Branagh, Peter Sarsgaard, David Glasser

In a surprise appearance at the Paramount UK Upfronts, Kelly Reilly has offiically revealed that Dutton Ranch will begin filming Season 2 at the start of 2027.

Yellowstone spin-off Dutton Ranch has been a huge hit for Paramount+ and the Season 2 renewal came with two episodes still to stream of Season 1.

It follows Reilly’s character Beth Dutton, starting afresh, alongside stars like Annette Bening, Ed Harris and Cole Hauser. Reilly starred across five seasons of Yellowstone, which wrapped in 2024.

Dutton Ranch achieved 12.9 million viewers worldwide during its first week, Reilly, a native Brit told the audience of executives, advertisers and press at the Paramount UK upfronts just two and a half weeks after the Skydance mega-merger.

She described Dutton Ranch as “a risk I’m proud we took, taking Beth from the mothership to start a new life in South Texas with lots of snakes.” “The response across the world well I am surprised and grateful,” she added.

Big stars like Kenneth Branagh and Peter Sarsgaard were also present on the night, who both star in upcoming Jez Butterworth drama Laird. First-look images were shown of Laird and producer David Glasser sat alongside Branagh and Sarsgaard.

Branagh said the show is about a “dysfunctional family” coming up against an “extraordinary character” played by Sarsgaard. “It’s a great world and lots of riveting characters made by people know how to put these things together,” he added. “It’s a very singular experiece.”

Sarsgaard said filming Laird had been like “being shot out of a cannon.” “We’re working, we’re really doing it,” he added. “I really like the intensity of it.”

Via video link, Samuel L. Jackson introduced a trailer of Frisco King to the audience, while soccer superstar David Beckham was on hand to talk up his Beckham & Friends Champion’s League series that is soon set to go international. “Finally my mum can watch it as well,” joked Beckham.

That is because Paramount+ has Champion’s League soccer rights in the UK and Gemany from next year after a heated auction that was reported to be well in excess of the current $1.3B deal in place with Warner Bros Discovery’s TNT Sports (when the deal was struck the pair weren’t merged).

The five-year deal is one of the biggest in international sports rights.Just two and a half weeks after the Skydance merger closed, the audience at the UK Upfronts were shown a splashy trail of the best Paramount-Warner content to the tune of a remix of The Beatles’ “Come Together” and Eminem’s “Let’s Get Down to Business”.

The event took place at London’s Royal Academy of Arts and was packed full of executives, advertisers and press. It is one of the first to take place since the $110B mega-merger.