'Tulsa King' Season 1, filmed largely in Oklahoma, to debut on CBS this summer: What to know

Sylvester Stallone's Dwight "The General" Manfredi is headed to network television.

The first season of Stallone's hit Paramount+ series "Tulsa King," which was filmed primarily in Oklahoma, will make its broadcast debut on CBS this summer, the network announced Wednesday.

The streaming series' will debut on CBS ahead of Season 2 launching this fall exclusively on Paramount+, according to a news release. "Tulsa King" is moving production to the Atlanta area for Season 2.

The broadcast bow for "Tulsa King" is the most recent example of Paramount Global’s strategy to bring Paramount+ originals to new audiences on its linear platforms.

It's also another example of Paramount leveraging its shows created by "Yellowstone" mastermind Taylor Sheridan. In the midst of and on the heels of last year's Hollywood strikes, CBS aired the first two seasons of "Yellowstone," Sheridan's flagship series.

What is 'Tulsa King' about?

Also listed among the executive producers, Stallone stars in "Tulsa King" as Dwight "The General" Manfredi, a 75-year-old New York gangster newly released after serving a 25-year prison sentence. He is quickly banished by his former boss' son to Tulsa, where he sets out to establish a new criminal empire in a strange new land.

"Tulsa King" also stars Dana Delaney, Garrett Hedlund, Andrea Savage, Martin Starr, Jay Will, Max Casella, Domenick Lombardozzi, Vincent Piazza and A.C. Peterson.

With its first season filmed primarily in the Sooner State, "Tulsa King" — Stallone's first lead role in a television series and first collaboration with Sheridan — premiered on Paramount+ in November 2022, just 18 months after Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed into law a new $30 million tax incentive for TV and film productions.

So far, the Stallone vehicle is the largest scripted television series to be produced in Oklahoma using the incentives under the Filmed in Oklahoma Act of 2021.

The starry show also is believed to be the largest scripted TV series ever made in Oklahoma, bringing an estimated spend of more than $56 million to the state.

Where did 'Tulsa King' Season 1 film in Oklahoma?

Filming for the first season of the Emmy-nominated series largely took place in Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Bethany and the surrounding areas over the course of nearly six months in 2022. The show's production was based primarily at downtown OKC's Prairie Surf Studios.

The series' debut season was an immediate hit: Just days after "Tulsa King's" Nov. 13, 2022, bow, Tanya Giles, chief programming officer for Paramount Streaming, announced that Paramount+ had achieved the most subscriber sign-ups in a single day since the previous year's relaunch of the streamer. She attributed the success to "Tulsa King" and continued year-over-year growth of the "NFL on CBS."

The series earned a speedy renewal for a second season, but that didn't guarantee the production would return to the Sooner State to film its sophomore run.

The Oklahoma Film + Music Office as well as Prairie Surf Studios confirmed to The Oklahoman last year that "Tulsa King" was not expected to return to Oklahoma to film Season 2.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported earlier this month that the production was moving to Georgia, where it's to be based out of Eagle Rock Studios in the Atlanta suburb of Norcross.

"Tulsa King" continues to be one of the most-watched series of all-time for Paramount+, according to the news release. It ranks second only behind the "Yellowstone" prequel "1923.""Yellowstone," Sheridan's most popular series, airs on the Paramount Network and streams on Peacock.

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