Overview
- Trade outlets on Friday reported that creator and Season 1 boss Chad Feehan will not return as showrunner, roughly three weeks before Dutton Ranch’s May 15 debut.
- Reports attribute the change to clashes with stars Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser and to dissatisfaction from Taylor Sheridan and producer David Glasser over how production was run.
- Sources say the concern was production management rather than the scripts, and that Feehan oversaw a finished first season of nine episodes.
- Paramount kept the release plan intact with a two‑episode launch on Paramount+ and a same‑night premiere on Paramount Network, and the studio declined to comment.
- Puck and other outlets report plans to promote a Season 1 writer for any second season, a move that fits a wider pattern of showrunner turnover on Sheridan projects such as Tulsa King.