1883 (TV Series) - Wikipedia

Paramount has communicated several iterations of their plans for more episodes. In the end, none of these resulted in more episodes of 1883.

The show was initially presented as a limited series. In February 2022, Paramount announced that "additional episodes" would follow the first season.[24] It was later announced that the decision to make additional episodes for season one had been reversed. The series would be succeeded by the sequel show 1932, later renamed 1923.[25] Sheridan considers 1883 to be "a 10-hour movie with an ending".[26][27]

In May 2022, Paramount revealed that the announced Sheridan series Lawmen: Bass Reeves would be a spin-off series to 1883, titled 1883: The Bass Reeves Story.[28][29][30] This longer title was later dropped and the series was later confirmed to no longer take place in the Yellowstone universe.[31][32]

Yellowstone crossovers

To introduce the new series 1883 to Yellowstone viewers, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill appeared as James and Margaret Dutton in flashback scenes during the fourth season of Yellowstone to show what life was like on the Dutton ranch in 1893, ten years after the Dutton family arrival in Montana. In the first episode, "Half the Money", James Dutton and his young sons John and Spencer, portrayed respectively by actors Jack Michael Doke and Charlie Stover, encountered starving Native Americans who had left the local reservation to bury their father on their former land that had since become a part of the Dutton Ranch.[33] In the eighth episode No Kindness for the Coward, Margaret Dutton and her sons John and Spencer are sitting at the dinner table in their ranch homestead waiting for her husband and their father to return from a dangerous manhunt of horse thieves who plague their territory.[34] These Yellowstone episodes aired prior to release of 1883 on Paramount+.

In one of the last scenes in the season 5 finale of Yellowstone, Life Is A Promise, Elsa Dutton, voiced by actress Isabel Mays, returns as narrator to summarize the future of the Yellowstone ranch and how it ties in with Spotted Eagle's prophecy at the end of 1883.[35][36]

1923 crossovers

A month before the premiere of 1923 in December 2022, Paramount+ released a trailer in which Elsa, voiced by Isabel May, served as the narrator.[37][38] May also narrated the first episode and informed the audience about the intervening 30 years in the saga of the Duttons between 1893 (the time of flashback scenes on Yellowstone) and the start of series of 1923.[39] Actor LaMonica Garrett served as host in the Paramount+ behind the scenes documentary 1923: Inside The Series.[40][41]