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The Lowdown
Renewing a show before its new season even airs tells you Paramount+ is confident in Stallone. Sending Dwight back to New York is a good creative reset for a show that has outgrown its title. It also gets a real mob story back on real mob streets.
Key Takeaways
- Paramount+ renewed Tulsa King for a fifth season on October 5, before the October 16 Season 4 premiere (Deadline).
- Production moved from Atlanta to New York to follow Dwight Manfredi’s mafia roots (Deadline).
- Scarlet Rose Stallone was promoted to series regular as Spencer (Deadline).
- Erik Palladino, Glenn Fleshler, Anthony Skordi and Nickola Shreli joined as series regulars (Deadline).
The Story
Paramount+ has renewed the Sylvester Stallone drama Tulsa King for Season 5. The announcement came ahead of the October 16 premiere of Season 4, and production has already started in New York (Deadline).
New York replaces Atlanta as the show’s home base, because the story will explore Dwight “The General” Manfredi’s mafia roots. Deadline reported Stallone recently signed a new deal that helped secure the renewal (Deadline).
Scarlet Rose Stallone returns as Spencer and is now a series regular. New regulars include Erik Palladino, Glenn Fleshler, Anthony Skordi and Nickola Shreli. Their characters haven’t been revealed (Deadline).
Terence Winter is head writer, and Taylor Sheridan is among the executive producers (Deadline).
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