Paramount will lose its most prolific television creator, Taylor Sheridan , who has closed a long-term film and television deal with NBCUniversal , Deadline has confirmed.

The massive five-year overall deal for film, TV and streaming, will begin Jan. 1, 2029 after Sheridan’s overall TV deal with Paramount ends. (It goes through 2028.) Also moving to NBCUniversal is Sheridan’s close collaborator David Glasser and his 101 Studios, who has signed a first-look deal with the new studio that will begin in early 2026, after the company fulfills its current Taylor Sheridan obligations to Paramount.

This is a shocker, underscoring the new era of talent wars that commenced with Skydance’s acquisition of Paramount Global. In one of the combined company’s first major moves, it poached Strange

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