If you tried to drive through downtown Fort Worth in late May and found 4th and Main blocked off, you weren't caught in construction. You were caught in a Taylor Sheridan production. Frisco King — the latest expansion of Sheridan's ever-widening television universe — closed down city streets to film, and it's only the most visible piece of a production operation that has quietly made Fort Worth one of the busiest shooting cities in America.
What Frisco King Is
Frisco King is a spinoff of Tulsa King, with Samuel L. Jackson reprising his Tulsa King role of Russell Lee Washington, Jr. The premise, per Paramount+, is a fish-out-of-water comedy: Jackson's character leaves his New Orleans roots to start over in what's been described as a “modern-day Mayberry.” Originally announced as NOLA King, it was rechristened Frisco King before cameras rolled.
Season 1 is eight episodes, and in the now-familiar Sheridan model, he is writing every one of them. Sheridan executive produces alongside Sylvester Stallone, Samuel L. Jackson, and the Tulsa King producing team. Filming in Fort Worth ran through late spring 2026.
That “writing every episode” detail is not trivia. It's the entire operating logic of Sheridan's empire: a single voice, an owned production base, and a streamer (Paramount+) that keeps greenlighting. The bottleneck is Sheridan's writing hand, and he keeps clearing it.
This Is Bigger Than One Show
Frisco King is one production in a slate. Across North Texas in the same window:
- Lioness — renewed for Season 3 and filming, with Fort Worth street closures earlier in the spring.
- The Madison — the Michelle Pfeiffer / Kurt Russell Yellowstone-adjacent drama, with Season 2 filmed entirely in North Texas between September and December 2025.
- Dutton Ranch — the Yellowstone continuation that filmed all across North Texas (Ferris, Boyd, Cleburne, Grandview, Weatherford, Dallas, Rio Vista, Fort Worth, Mineral Wells) and landed as the biggest original series debut in Paramount+ history.
One creator. One region. Multiple flagship series shooting nearly back-to-back. There is nothing else like it in the American television business right now, and it's happening in Texas.
What It Means for Texas Crew
The street closures are an inconvenience for commuters and a gift for everyone working in production. A Sheridan slate at this volume means sustained, year-round work for North Texas crew — grips, electricians, art department, transpo, locations, the whole call sheet. Combined with the new SB 22 incentive money and the SGS Studios campus at AllianceTexas, Fort Worth has effectively become a company town for prestige television.
The risk in any company town is concentration: a lot of the regional economy now leans on one creator's output. But for the moment, the machine is running hot, and the people holding union cards in Tarrant County are the ones cashing the checks.
Watch for the streets to close again. They will.
Frisco King: Paramount+ | Filmed in Fort Worth, spring 2026
Texas Film Commission: gov.texas.gov/film