"Frisco King" — Taylor Sheridan Moves Samuel L. Jackson Show from New Orleans to Frisco

Taylor Sheridan didn't move a TV show to Frisco. He moved a world there.

Paramount+ announced Tuesday that "NOLA King," a long-gestating "Tulsa King" spinoff built around Samuel L. Jackson, is finished before it started. Dead on arrival, swapped out for something with a Texas ZIP code. The show is now called "Frisco King," with all eight episodes written by Sheridan himself. Cameras are scheduled to roll in Fort Worth in late March.

The pivot away from New Orleans follows the July 2025 exit of original showrunner Dave Erickson. He had scripted the series around Jackson's character, Russell Lee Washington Jr., a hitman turned second-chance seeker, first introduced in season three of the Sylvester Stallone-starring "Tulsa King." What New Orleans was supposed to hold, as a city with its own gravitational pull, Sheridan has apparently decided Frisco can carry instead.

Matt Thunell, president of Paramount Television Studios, called it a showcase for Sheridan's "singular voice." Jane Wiseman, Paramount+'s head of originals, said Jackson's casting proved the franchise's "scale and ambition of the storytelling Taylor is crafting."

For Frisco, a city that spent decades insisting, politely but firmly, that it was more than a suburb, the arrival of a major Paramount+ production lands differently than a press release. It's the Sheridanverse, which brought "Yellowstone," "Landman," and "1883," now engulfing Collin County.