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Sometimes a television Western is more than a Western, and that was certainly true of “The Wild Wild West.” The adventure series combined the horse opera with science fiction, espionage, and pre-steampunk aesthetics, spanning four seasons on CBS in the late ’60s. Unfortunately, the show was also deemed “one of the most violent programs on television,” per…

You’d be hard pressed to find many Western fans who aren’t familiar with Blanche Hanalis’ “Little House on the Prairie.” The original series ran for nine seasons in the ’70s and ’80s, providing family-friendly drama while chronicling the trials and tribulations of the Ingalls family as they survive on a farm in Minnesota. Make no…

The year isn’t over yet, but 2026 has provided us with enough great Western TV series to warrant a celebration. There’s still time for more shows to come along and make us scream “yee-haw,” but let’s take a minute to pay tribute to what we already have.

Once upon a time, the Western was as ubiquitous as superhero movies are today. Across movies like “The Searchers,” “High Noon,” and “Rio Bravo,” and television series like “The Rifleman,” “Gunsmoke,” and “Wagon Train,” tales of the West dominated pop culture for decades.

In the wake of what can only be described as an onslaught of Taylor Sheridan shows, Western entertainment is enjoying a renaissance. We’ve had everything from straight-up “Yellowstone” clones to Western versions of “The Summer I Turned Pretty” (check out the underrated Netflix show “My Life with the Walter Boys” if you’re intrigued). Now, there’s…

Are you a fan of Westerns? Do you love a cowboy and a sheriff facing off against each other in a dusty town while, perhaps, an Enrico Morricone theme plays in the background? Whatever you specifically love about Westerns, there are plenty of great Western movies to watch … but what if you want a longer narrative?

Netflix has decided to end one of its Texas-set romantic dramas after two seasons. The streamer opted against a third season, closing the book on the series at 18 episodes.

Netflix is to produce a series adaptation of ‘Lonesome Dove,’ the Western novel that was first brought to screen in a hit 1989 adaptation starring Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones.

Netflix has handed a straight-to-series order to another major Western adaptation from the creative team behind its upcoming East of Eden series. Zoe Kazan and Jeb Stuart will write, executive-produce, and co-showrun the new project, which is their second collaboration with the streamer before their first has even reached audiences.

One person made this game. That fact matters more than almost anything else about Forastero, because what that one person is attempting — a mechanically deep, third-person brawler built for the same audience that spent nearly two decades asking why no one had made a proper God Hand successor — is exactly the kind of…