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Updated · Fox News · Jun 11

Paramount+ Renews Landman for Season 3 as Billy Bob Thornton Calls It a Global Hit

Updated

Updated · Fox News · Jun 11

Paramount+ Renews Landman for Season 3 as Billy Bob Thornton Calls It a Global Hit

Q: As 'Landman' depicts oil's reality, will it also confront the rise of sustainable biomanufacturing?

No clear evidence suggests that *Landman* will take on sustainable biomanufacturing, at least based on what Paramount+, the cast, and available reporting have said so far. Everything publicly described about the series points to a narrower focus: the lived reality of the Permian Basin oil business, including price swings, accidents, labor pressures, automation, and the economic dependence of communities on oil. Billy Bob Thornton and Andy Garcia have framed the show’s appeal around authenticity and working-class struggle, not around mapping the next generation of industrial alternatives. That said, the subject would fit the show’s broader terrain if Taylor Sheridan chose to widen the lens. The searched material shows why: sustainable biomanufacturing is emerging as a potential alternative to petrochemical production, using renewable feedstocks instead of fossil inputs. But it remains constrained by high capital costs, scale-up problems, and one major obstacle that *Landman* already dramatizes well—volatile oil prices. When crude prices fall, bio-based chemicals often become less competitive, as past industry failures have shown. So the real-world link is strong even if the on-screen evidence is not. If *Landman* continues exploring how oil shapes jobs, supply chains, and the future of chemicals, biomanufacturing would be a logical next topic. For now, though, there is no reporting or production detail indicating that Season 3 will explicitly address it.

3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jun 11

Paramount+ officially confirmed a third season of "Landman," extending Taylor Sheridan’s oil-boom drama after it built a broad audience.
Billy Bob Thornton, speaking at the Newport Beach TV Fest, said the show resonates especially with working-class viewers who relate to the family and industry struggles it depicts.
Thornton said the series became an international hit because Sheridan blends drama, humor, danger and absurdity rather than sticking to a single tone.
"Landman," based on the podcast "Boomtown," follows a crisis manager in the Permian Basin oil boom and stars Thornton alongside Ali Larter, Demi Moore, Jon Hamm, Andy Garcia and others.