Taylor Sheridan, the creator of the Yellowstone franchise beloved by middle America, is ditching his longtime home at Paramount. And it has everything to do with the company’s new chief executive, David Ellison.

According to a new report from the Wall Street Journal, one disagreement was about a request from Ellison to make a series tied to America’s 250th anniversary next year. The Journal, citing unnamed sources, said Sheridan refused to make his shows “overtly political.”

Yellowstone has often been branded as a red-state show or conservative show, because the lead family, the Duttons, mirror conservative values of being against outsiders and changing culture. But Sheridan has criticized commenters who believe the show is conservative, telling The Hollywood Reporter in 2022, that it h

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