‘Dutton Ranch’ Taps ‘SEAL Team’ Creator Benjamin Cavell as Season 2 Showrunner
“Dutton Ranch” has found its new showrunner. Benjamin Cavell has joined the “Yellowstone” spinoff series to helm Season 2.
Cavell takes over from Season 1 showrunner Chad Feehan, who left the show just before it premiered. Feehan is also the credited creator of the series, based on characters created by “Yellowstone” co-creators Taylor Sheridan and John Linson.
“Dutton Ranch” debuted on Paramount+ on May 15, with the Season 1 finale set to air this Friday. It proved to be an immediate hit, scoring the biggest original series launch in the streamer’s history with 12.9 million views for the first two episodes within seven days of their release. It was officially renewed for Season 2 in June.
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Cavell previously created the CBS/Paramount+ military drama “SEAL Team,” which aired for seven seasons. Most recently, he developed the MGM+ series “The Institute,” based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King. He has previously written for shows like “Justified,” on which he spent six seasons, as well as “Homeland,” “Sneaky Pete,” and “Godfather of Harlem.” He also co-created the Paramount+ limited series “The Stand,” which was also based on King’s work.
He is repped by CAA, The Shuman Company, and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.
Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser star in “Dutton Ranch,” reprising the roles of Beth and Rip from “Yellowstone.” The first season also Finn Little (reprising the role of Carter) as well as Juan Pablo Raba, Jai Courtney, J.R. Villarreal, Marc Menchaca, Natalie Alyn Lind, and Ed Harris and Annette Bening.
Along with Cavell, executive producers include David C. Glasser, Art Linson, Ron Burkle, David Hutkin, Bob Yari, Christina Alexandra Voros, Michael Friedman, Sheridan, John Linson, Hauser and Reilly. The series is produced by Paramount Television Studios and 101 Studios.
The official logline for the show states, “As Beth and Rip fight to build a future together – far from the ghosts of Yellowstone – they collide with brutal new realities and a ruthless rival ranch that will stop at nothing to protect its empire. In South Texas, blood runs deeper, forgiveness is fleeting, and the cost of survival might just be your soul.”
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‘Last Kids on Earth’ TV Series Gets Disney Pilot Order
A television adaptation of “The Last Kids on Earth” book series is in the works at Disney, which has ordered a pilot.
That means an episode of the series will be produced before Disney decides whether to move forward on a full season order.
The project is set up at Disney+ and Disney Channel with showrunners Chad Fiveash and James Stoteraux (“Vampire Diaries,” “One Tree Hill,” “Gotham Knights”). They serve as writers and will executive produce alongside director Kevin Tancharoen (“The Book of Boba Fett,” “The Brothers Sun,” “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”). EPs alaos include Max Brallier, Hillary Zwick Turner, Jennifer Twiner McCarron and Matt Hornburg.
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Written by Max Brallier, “The Last Kids on Earth” is an illustrated novel targeting middle school-aged readers. It follows a foster child named Jack Sullivan, whose sleepy town of Wakefield is faced with the apocalypse. In this end-of-the-world scenario, Jack thrives on junk food and video games while gathering a squad of classmates to fight of zombies and monsters. This mismatched group of teens must band together to survive, and to become the unlikely heroes tasked with saving the world.
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The first “Last Kids on Earth” book was published in 2015 and was followed by new installments in each following year. There are sequels, such as “The Last Kids on Earth and the Zombie Parade” and “The Last Kids on Earth and the Doomsday Race,” as well as standalone books in the series, such as “The Last Kids on Earth: Thrilling Tales From the Tree House” and “The Last Kids on Earth: Quint and Dirk’s Hero Quest.”
This news comes a week after Disney ordered a pilot for an adaptation of the mermaid movie “Aquamarine.” Emma Roberts, who starred in the original film, will guest star as Claire Brown in the pilot.
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Cops who busted smiling sisters Cookie and Kitty offer hint at motive for Texas mom’s murder
By Georgia Worrell Published June 30, 2026, 1:50 p.m. ETSee more of our coverage in your search results.
Add The New York Post on GoogleThe vicious, broad-daylight murder of a Texas mother of five was far from a random act of violence, cops have revealed.
Instead, the three young women accused of murdering Caroline “Caro” Peña – smiling sisters Kitty Mia Diaz, 21, and Amaya Cookie Diaz, 19, and their pal, Kyandra Renee Faz, 21 – knew the 32-year-old victim, Del Rio Police Chief Frank Ramirez told TMZ.
All three women were hit with first-degree murder charges after police say Cookie repeatedly stabbed Peña in the back during a heated confrontation in the small border city of Del Rio on Thursday afternoon.
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The chief declined to specify the nature of the relationship between Peña and her accused killers.
Police have not offered an explanation for why the four young women — two of them mothers — were fighting.
Faz told police that Peña had “arrived at her residence looking to start a fight,” according to a criminal complaint obtained by The Post
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Surveillance footage later obtained by investigators showed Peña’s black Dodge pickup truck driving up to Faz’s house, where Cookie and Kitty arrived shortly thereafter.
The video shows Cookie fly out of the passenger seat of a black Chrysler 300 and confront Peña — while holding an object believed by cops to be a knife in her right hand, according to the complaint.
Cookie is seen in the clip striking the mother in the back, where blood begins soaking her shirt, the document states.
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That’s when Kitty and Faz jumped in — allegedly beating Peña before running away, according to the court record.
Peña was reportedly driven to a local hospital by her nephew. She succumbed to the stab wounds at around 9 p.m. at a hospital in San Antonio.
Ramirez stressed that Peña’s decision to go to Faz’s house doesn’t suggest she bore any responsibility for the violence that followed, the outlet reported.
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Just two hours after the brutal attack, Cookie and Kitty flashed twisted smiles as police hauled them off in handcuffs.
Footage taken outside the siblings’ home showed a barefoot Kitty – wearing tight black shorts and a halter top with an illustration of white hands cupping her breasts – grinning briefly at the ground as two officers escorted her into a patrol car around 4 p.m. Thursday.
Her similarly scantily clad younger sister appeared to put on a show for the camera, brazenly flashing her pearly whites and giggling after sarcastically yelling at the man behind the camera, “Stop recording!”
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“I saw the first girl going into the car, and I thought, ‘Whatever’… But the second one caught my eye,” independent journalist Michael Elizondo, who filmed the arrests, later told The Post.
“That girl was in a happy mood…She was all smiling, goofing off like nothing happened,” he said.
Ramirez blasted the sisters’ demeanors as stunningly “callous.”
“My impression is it didn’t look good, and you would think there would be a little more remorse in a situation like that – it looked callous,” he told TMZ, referring to the chilling video of their arrests.
The three accused attackers are behind bars after each were slapped with $5 million bonds by a judge during their first court appearance Friday, when they all requested court-appointed attorneys.
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Rob Pelinka ‘botched’ the Lakers decisions - what’s next without LeBron?

Rob Pelinka ‘botched’ the Lakers decisions - what’s next without LeBron?Yahoo Sports senior NBA analyst Kevin O’Connor reacts to The King’s decision to leave Los Angeles and what’s next for the club. Check out the full conversation on “The Kevin O’Connor Show” and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.2:01Now PlayingPaused
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Yahoo Sports senior NBA analyst Kevin O’Connor reacts to The King’s decision to leave Los Angeles and what’s next for the club. Check out the full conversation on “The Kevin O’Connor Show” and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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What's next for the Lakers?
LeBron James is gone.
They have all this cap space.
They already resigned Austin Reaves, DeAndre Ayton opted in, Marcus Smart might be leaving.
How are they gonna perfectly construct this roster around Luka Doni?
What's this grand plan that Rob Pelinka has been building towards around Luka?
'Cause I'm not seeing it.
What I'm seeing is Pelinka botch decision after decision after decision over the last five years.
And this is another one, because LeBron James is still a top 25 player in the NBA, but he felt exiled ever since they acquired Luka Doni.
Ramona Shelburne from ESPN said they had a meeting with Luka about the future and how to build the team, and it didn't include LeBron James.
AdvertisementAdvertisementwe already know earlier this year, LeBron was slighted when Rob Pelinka barged into the room and, and honored JJ Redick for his, his 100th win, even though LeBron James had another record and JJ was about to give him the game ball before Pelinka came in.
All these little things, you can say LeBron's just being a big, whiny baby.
You can say all that, and that might be true.
It is partially true.
But you can also understand why the guy would feel slighted after he spent eight years there, and very clearly, the Lakers were pushing him out the door.
W- We want you, we want you to be here, but actually, secretly, they want you gone.
AdvertisementAdvertisementThat's what happened with the Lakers.
And so what's Pelinka gonna do?
What are the Lakers gonna do?
What's this new ownership gonna do, run by the Dodgers, who have had great success in building out that baseball team?
So what's gonna happen with the basketball team?
We'll find out in the coming days and in the coming weeks, but I'm skeptical about this whole grand plan that the Lakers supposedly have, 'cause they haven't shown much of a plan over the last five years, ever since they won the championship in the bubble in 2020.
So I'll see it when I believe it.
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