Fans of Taylor Sheridan’s oil-patch drama Landman may have a longer wait than first expected for Season 3. The Paramount+ hit, which has already delivered two seasons of Billy Bob Thornton’s hard-edged turn as Tommy Norris, has seen its production calendar shift more than once—and the latest word from the cast points to cameras rolling only in September 2026, with episodes unlikely to appear until well into the following year.

From Texas start to a sliding Season 3

Landman premiered in November 2024 after filming began in Texas earlier that year. Season 2 production started in 2025, wrapped that August, and reached viewers in November 2025—a relatively tight turnaround that kept the show in the annual conversation.

Season 3 has not followed the same rhythm. Filming was originally eyed for May 2026, then pushed by roughly three months. In July 2026, James Jordan told Us Weekly exclusively that the start had moved again: production would begin in September 2026. “It’s going to be fantastic. Taylor is writing as we speak,” Jordan said. “It’s going to be 10 crazy, wonderful, funny and wild episodes—just like season 1 and season 2 have been. Billy Bob [Thornton] and everybody, we’re all ready to get back to work. I believe we’re bringing back the same director, Stephen Kay, who I adore. So it’s going to be a great ride.”

He sketched the new timeline clearly: “We start that sometime in September and we’ll shoot that through the first quarter of next year. Then we should have it out … I don’t know when. It’s up to the powers that be, but we’re very excited to get started on that.”

No official explanation has been offered for the successive delays. The practical effect is straightforward: a season that might once have been aimed at a late-2026 window is now more likely to land in 2027, depending on post-production and Paramount’s scheduling.

Raises settled before cameras roll

The production news landed against a backdrop of successful pay renegotiations. According to Deadline, by June 2026 the entire original cast—apart from Thornton—had secured paycheck increases.

Thornton, as Tommy, is on a separate three-year deal with standard year-to-year bumps. He would only reopen major terms if the series is renewed for a fourth season. Demi Moore, whose original contract was shorter than the usual two-year option structure, negotiated a new arrangement that brings her into parity with Thornton, at a reported $740,000 to $770,000 per episode.

Ali Larter, who plays Angela, renegotiated her long-term deal after other original cast members had settled earlier in the year. She more than doubled her rate to about $350,000 an episode and also secured a talent deal. Jacob Lofland and Michelle Randolph, who play Tommy and Angela’s children, are moving into a range of roughly $130,000 to $180,000 per episode. The wider ensemble—including Paulina Chávez, Kayla Wallace, Mark Collie and Jordan—received sizable increases, though smaller than those won by Lofland and Randolph.

Whether the salary talks contributed to the calendar slip has not been stated. What is clear is that the financial reset for the company was largely complete before the September start Jordan described.

Continuity behind the camera

Jordan’s expectation that Stephen Kay will return as director is one of the few concrete creative anchors attached to Season 3 so far. Kay’s involvement across the first two seasons helped set the show’s visual and tonal baseline—dust, money, family fracture and the grinding comedy of the oil business. Sheridan writing “as we speak,” in Jordan’s phrase, suggests the scripts were still taking shape in mid-2026 even as the cast prepared to reassemble.

Sheridan’s crowded slate

Landman is only one title on a long Sheridan list. He remains involved, in various capacities, with Mayor of Kingstown, Tulsa King, Lioness, Marshals, The Madison, Dutton Ranch and Frisco King. That volume of simultaneous or overlapping production can stretch writers, directors and preferred actors—several of whom, Jordan included, appear across more than one of his series. A delayed Landman shoot is consistent with a slate in which not every show can occupy the same months of the calendar.

What fans can expect—and when

On present information, Season 3 of Landman is set for ten episodes in the same “crazy, wonderful, funny and wild” register as the first two seasons, with Thornton and the renegotiated ensemble returning, Kay expected back, and Sheridan still writing into the start of production. Filming is due to run from September 2026 into the first quarter of 2027. An air date remains in the hands of “the powers that be.”

Until that date is fixed, the delay is best read as a combination of a sliding shoot, a cast that has just reset its deals, and a creator whose attention is split across an entire ecosystem of shows. The work, Jordan insists, is still aimed at the same tone that made Landman a hit. It will simply reach the screen later than the May 2026 plan once implied.