‘The Madison’ Renewed for Season 3 With Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt Russell

Michelle Pfeiffer as Stacy Clyburn. "I wonder if they would do a theatrical release because it is so sweeping," says the actress, who credits '1923' star Helen Mirren for helping her commit to the project.

Michelle Pfeiffer as Stacy Clyburn in 'The Madison.' Emerson Miller/Paramount+ Logo text

Taylor Sheridan has another hit series on his hands. The Madison, which has been billed as the prolific writer’s most personal offering yet, has been renewed for a third season at Paramount+.

Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt Russell will return for season three. The cast also includes Beau Garrett, Elle Chapman, Patrick J. Adams, Amiah Miller, Alaina Pollack, Ben Schnetzer, Kevin Zegers, Rebecca Spence, Danielle Vasinova, Will Arnett and Matthew Fox, though the latter only appears in season one.

The Madison received a unique rollout from the streamer, releasing over two weekends in March. The first three episodes streamed on Saturday, March 14, followed by the final three a week later on March 21. The family grief-drama became the biggest original series launch yet for a Sheridan show on the streamer, according to Paramount+, and debuted to 8 million viewers globally during its first 10 days.

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The Hollywood Reporter previously revealed that The Madison also had a unique production schedule and already filmed season two before season one even premiered. In order to have Russell appear in the series, they had to work around his schedule on Apple’s Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. Pfeiffer and Sheridan devised a plan with Paramount to film all of Russell’s season one scenes when they returned to production on season two, one year after filming season one in September 2024.

“I shot my side of the work before he was cast,” Pfeiffer told The Hollywood Reporter of filming all of season one without Russell. “I was not happy about that,” she said with a laugh. “It was touch and go if they were going to make [Kurt’s] schedule work. But Taylor was insisting it was going to happen, so I just decided [in my head], ‘Ok, it’s Kurt.’ And because I know him, that was pretty easy to conjure up.”

A release date for season two will be announced at a later date.

The Madison tells the story of the New York City Clyburn family, led by Pfeiffer’s matriarch, Stacy. As the first episode revealed, Stacy’s husband, Preston — played by Russell — dies in a plane crash while visiting his brother (played by Fox) at their Montana ranch. Preston’s death brings Stacy and her family (daughters played by Garrett and Chapman; granddaughters played by Pollack and Miller; and a son-in-law played by Adams) to the mountains where the Manhattanites are fish out of water in the place that Preston loved with all of his soul, that they never visited.

The first season followed the family discovering what drew Preston to Montana as they dealt with their grief and fractured relationships and ended with Stacy deciding to move to Montana at the end of the season one finale. That moment sets the Clyburn family up for various states of return to the mountains for season two.

The series was initially announced as being set within the Yellowstone-verse, however that changed once Sheridan began writing the drama. The Madison stands on its own, and Sheridan had planned for a third season, and perhaps more, according to his cast and series director Christina Alexandra Voros.

“Any time you get a show together with a cast like this you kind of want it to go forever. Having completed the second season, you just fall more and more in love with them as a family. It’s more complicated, emotionally, underneath,” Voros recently told THR.

Here’s the official logline: “The Madison unfolds across two distinct worlds — the beautiful landscape of Montana and the vibrant energy of Manhattan — as it examines the ties that bind families together.”

The Madison is produced by Paramount Television Studios, 101 Studios and Bosque Ranch Productions. Executive producers are Sheridan, David C. Glasser, John Linson, Art Linson, Ron Burkle, David Hutkin, Bob Yari, Voros, Michael Friedman, Pfeiffer, Russell and Keith Cox. Voros directed all episodes; season one is now streaming on Paramount+.