Taylor Sheridan is best known as the man behind the mega-successful Yellowstone franchise, but he's also working on a number of others shows — often simultaneously. In a recent interview, Sheridan reveals the extremely punishing schedule he keeps in order to keep cranking out the hits.

In addition to writing and directing Yellowstone, Sheridan also created, wrote and directed both of its successful prequels, 1883 and 1923. He's also the main force behind a string of non-Yellowstone-related hits, including Tulsa King, Mayor of Kingstown, Lawmen: Bass Reeves and Special Opps: Lioness.

Sheridan also has a number of projects in the works, including 1944, 2024 and 6666 — all of which are related to Yellowstone — as well as Landman and an adaptation of Empire of the Summer Moon.

During an appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast, Sheridan admits the workload is extremely challenging, since he does not usually use a writers room and chooses to exercise as much control over his projects as possible.

"When I go direct, if I go on a six-month — which I’m about to — a six-month, seven-month run of directing every single day, where I have to make decisions from 6AM to 9 o’clock at night, then I gotta watch footage until midnight, I get three or four hours of sleep for six months. I’m a fu--ing wreck after six months," he stated in January of 2024 (quote via CinemaBlend).

Sheridan further explained that he wrote Season 3 of Yellowstone at the same time he was directing Angelina Jolie in a movie titled Those Who Wish Me Dead, which was particularly challenging.

"Yeah, I was directing a movie with Angelina Jolie in New Mexico. And [Paramount Network] had a start date [for Season 3 of Yellowstone], that by god they were going to start," he recalls. "It didn’t matter that they didn’t have scripts, they were going to start. And I had to, you know, we would do a night shoot Friday night and finish about 7:00 in the morning. Then I would come home, and sleep until 2:00.

"Then I’d wake up, have coffee and write the script Saturday until 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning," he adds. "Then, wake up Sunday, do it again. Finish the script, send it off. I did it ten weeks in a row. It fu--ing killed me."

Sheridan estimates his average workday runs 14-16 hours when he's working on a show.

Yellowstone is set to begin filming the second half of Season 5 in the spring. Those episodes will begin airing in November, and they will bring the hit show to a close, with a proposed sequel to air after that. No details are yet available about the sequel, though Matthew McConaughey has been rumored to star.

PICS: See Inside Taylor Sheridan's Historic 6666 Ranch in Texas

The massive, historic Texas ranch where the upcoming Yellowstone spinoff Yellowstone: 6666 will shoot has sold for just under $200 million, and pictures show a property that is truly part of Texas history.

The 6666 Ranch — better-known as the Four Sixes Ranch — in Guthrie, Texas, dates back to 1870. The ranch centers around a 13-bedroom, 13-bathroom, 13,280-square-foot main residence, which is constructed of quarry rock that was hauled to Guthrie by wagon. The ranch also includes vast, sweeping fenced pastures, farmland, fenced-in pens for cattle, a more recent addition for horses, a water filtration plant that serves the ranch's water needs and more.

There are separate camp manager's homes in both the North Camp and the South Camp of the ranch, which encompasses nearly 225 square miles of land. Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan is part of a group of investors who recently acquired the property for $192 million, and he has been shooting his new show out there in recent months.

Gallery Credit: Sterling Whitaker

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PICTURES: See Inside Kevin Costner's Spectacular Colorado Ranch

Yellowstone star Kevin Costner lives the ranch life when he's off the set of the hit show, too. The Oscar-winning actor owns a 160-acre ranch in Aspen, Colo., that's a spectacular getaway, complete with a main residence, a lake house and a river house.

The luxury retreat also features a baseball field, a sledding hill, an ice rink, multiple hot tubs and views of the Continental Divide. The ranch property comfortably sleeps 27 people, and it's currently available to rent for 36,000 a night.

Gallery Credit: Sterling Whitaker

PICTURES: See Inside 'Yellowstone' Star Cole Hauser's Spectacular California Ranch

Cole Hauser doesn't just play a rancher on Yellowstone, he's lived that life off-screen, too. The actor's 5-bedroom-6-bathroom, 5,402-square-foot rural home on a very private, double-gated three-acre parcel of land includes the lavish 4-bedroom, 4-bathroom main residence, as well as a guest house and a separate studio apartment. The main house runs completely on solar power and comes with a 3-car garage, with easy transitions between indoor and outdoor living spaces, and the exterior of the property includes a pool area and a hot tub, as well as fenced-in horse corrals.

Gallery Credit: Sterling Whitaker

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