News Summary

• Larry McMurtry’s classic Lonesome Dove novel is returning to television as a Netflix series.
• The streamer has greenlighted the Western drama from Zoe Kazan and Jeb Stuart, co-showrunners of Netflix's upcoming East of Eden limited series.
• Independent studio Teton Ridge Entertainment, which focuses on American West stories, announced in February that it had acquired the rights to the LONESome Dove literary franchise for film and television.
• It took four months for the streamer to confirm the show, word is that there were some gaps in the complex web of necessary rights that had to be secured before Netflix could proceed with the greenlight.