Netflix orders new 'Lonesome Dove' series, decades after CBS miniseries won four Emmys

Netflix has ordered a new series adapting Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1985 western novel 'Lonesome Dove', with Zoe Kazan and Jeb Stuart as co-showrunners, Variety reported on 9 September 2026. The novel was first adapted as a 1989 CBS miniseries starring Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones, which won four Emmy Awards including Outstanding Miniseries and a Golden Globe. No casting, episode count, or release window is confirmed.