Taylor Sheridan: Kevin Costner was supposed to leave Yellowstone after Season 3...

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..., but the show became too much of a “behemoth”

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Sheridan said on The Bill Simmons Podcast that Costner stayed on two additional years after the first three seasons because Yellowstone had become an immense hit. “It was such a huge hit that the notion of giving up a hit before it had run out of juice to squeeze is very foreign to a network,” Sheridan said, per EW. “And there was even pressure from some of the cable companies wanting to put it in their deals that they were going to get an ‘X’ number of seasons of Yellowstone to re-up with whatever this cable company is.”