The hit drama “Yellowstone” is officially ending with the second half of Season 5 and the show’s creator already has a follow-up series that is set to debut immediately after the season concludes.

The second half of Season 5 is set to come out in November, Deadline reported, adding “Yellowstone” creator Taylor Sheridan already has a new sequel lined up from 101 Studios and MTV Entertainment Studios that will debut in December.

The name of the new show has not been released and no cast have been named, the report said. It is expected to star Matthew McConaughey, who the report said remained in ongoing negotiations, and will feature a “handful of original Yellowstone cast members.”

It is not clear whether Kevin Costner, who stars as rancher family patriarch John Dutton, will even be back for the second half of Season 5 amid contract issues.

“Yellowstone has been the cornerstone on which we have launched an entire universe of global hits – from 1883 to Tulsa King, and I am confident our Yellowstone sequel will be another big hit, thanks to the brilliant creative mind of Taylor Sheridan and our incredible casts who bring these shows to life,” said Chris McCarthy, President & CEO Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios.

David Glasser, CEO, 101 Studios, added, “The Dutton story continues, picking up where Yellowstone leaves off in another epic tale. We are thrilled to bring this new journey to audiences around the world.”

The success of the show has given Sheridan “seemingly unlimited leverage” over 101 Studios, which produces the shows, and Paramount, which buys them, according to a report this week from The Wall Street Journal. Sheridan dictates nearly every aspect of how, when, and where the shows are produced with little pushback from executives, the report said.

Sheridan reportedly charges Paramount up to $50,000 per week to film at one of his Texas ranches, the report said in noting how expensive the episodes can cost to produce.

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For example, episodes of “1923,” one of two “Yellowstone” prequels, cost at least $22 million each to produce, the report said. Paramount spends more than $500 million per year producing his shows.

President Joe Biden really should not be throwing around the word “deadbeat” the same week that his son Hunter is in Arkansas court trying to lower child support payments for his lovechild whom he had with a stripper. Biden the senior has yet to recognize that the little girl even exists.

Nonetheless, Biden has never really been one known for self-awareness. Twice this week, while discussing America’s looming debt default, the president has said that America will pay its bill because the U.S. is “not a deadbeat nation.”

BIDEN: "We're not a deadbeat nation" pic.twitter.com/TseVB7O2xC

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 5, 2023

It seems that is actually a White House talking point, not just an errant thought from the elderly fool because White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre also used that same exact phrase on Wednesday:

Jean-Pierre: "We can not be a deadbeat nation…This country has always paid our debt!"pic.twitter.com/Ne3LoXvZ0r

— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) May 3, 2023

Those comments came just days after the president’s latchkey son, Hunter, made his appearance in court, arguing that he is too poor to pay the court-ordered child support to his baby mama, Linden Roberts. He is a struggling artist after all.

As The Daily Wire reported, Hunter’s daughter lives with her mother in Arkansas. Roberts is currently battling with the president’s son in court over $20,000 monthly paternity payments, which Hunter is seeking to have decreased.

Roberts’ legal team accused Hunter in court on Monday of failing to supply necessary financial records to get that payment lowered, The Daily Wire noted. Roberts’ attorneys have argued that Hunter should produce his records — including assets such as cars and houses and the amount of money he has made selling amateur artwork — to prove that his paternity payments should be decreased.

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Independence County Circuit Court Judge Holly Meyer scolded Hunter in the courtroom for providing overly redacted records, saying their ability to keep certain information out of the public eye was “being somewhat abused.”

Likewise, Roberts is also attempting to get her daughter’s last name legally changed to “Biden.” The Biden family name is “now synonymous with being well educated, successful, financially acute, and politically powerful,” Roberts’ attorneys wrote in a court filing in December.

But it seems that Hunter and his infamous father want nothing to do with her.

When the president’s press secretary was asked about the paternity case and the Biden family’s complete non-acknowledgment of the four-year-old, Jean-Pierre was curt and stopped the conversation.

“I wanted to ask about the trial going on in Arkansas with Hunter Biden and the child support. Are the president and first lady monitoring that? And how come they haven’t acknowledged the seventh grandchild?” asked Emily Goodwin, U.S. politics reporter for the U.K.’s Daily Mail.

“I’m not going to speak to that from here,” answered Jean-Pierre.

Daily Mail's @EmilyLGoodin: "I wanted to ask about the trial…in Arkansas w/Hunter Biden & the child support. Are [Joe & Jill Biden] monitoring that & how come they haven't acknowledged the 7th grandchild?"

KJP: "I'm not gonna speak to that from here"

James Rosen: "Why not?" pic.twitter.com/TARVeT7K6L

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) May 2, 2023

Just last week, the president bragged that he had six grandchildren whom he is “crazy about.” He doesn’t have half a dozen, but seven grandkids. The youngest of the brood is treated like dirt, it appears to anybody with a conscience.

Perhaps no surprise, the lapdog media has been generally absent on this entire story. Last Saturday, the White House Press Association awarded a Washington Post reporter with a reward for how “he captured the spirit of Joe Biden, particularly with stories about the President’s brother and how his Catholic faith influenced his strategic vision of the office.”

Fox News’ Rachel Campos-Duffy, a mother of eight, put it best with her response to that unbelievable award: “Joe Biden’s Catholic faith?!!?? What a joke #WHCD is! Joe Biden is a deadbeat grandpa (poor Navy Biden) who sold out his country w/ Hunter, & is the most radical pro abortion president in US history. Christ & Catholicism is certainly not part of Joe’s ‘strategic vision.’”

Joe Biden’s Catholic faith?!!??
What a joke #WHCD is!
Joe Biden is a deadbeat grandpa (poor Navy Biden) who sold out his country w/ Hunter, & is the most radical pro abortion president in US history.
Christ & Catholicism is certainly not part of Joe’s “strategic vision”. https://t.co/rYJLmw20RA

— Rachel Campos-Duffy (@RCamposDuffy) April 30, 2023

Indeed, America might not be a deadbeat, but its leader — a term this author uses loosely — sure is.

The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.