CBS Renews Marshals for Season 2 After 20.6M Viewer Debut

CBS has renewed its Yellowstone spinoff series Marshals for a second season just 12 days after its March 1 premiere, following a dominant performance that drew 20.6 million multiplatform viewers in the United States over seven days. The show, starring Luke Grimes as Kayce Dutton, topped all television programs that week across broadcast and streaming platforms, according to Nielsen measurements.

The premiere episode initially attracted 9.52 million viewers during its live-plus-same-day airing on CBS, marking the most-watched scripted network series debut without a football lead-in since 2018. With delayed viewing and streaming on Paramount included, the total climbed to 20.6 million, more than double the initial audience and surpassing any other series by at least 6 million viewers. This figure positioned Marshals as the top network original premiere without an NFL lead-in since CBS's Young Sheldon in 2017. Streaming accounted for the majority of the additional 11.08 million viewers, making the episode the most-streamed CBS program ever on Paramount.

The second episode, aired on March 8, retained much of that momentum with 8.4 million live-plus-same-day viewers on CBS, a solid...