Frisco King: Paramount+ Release Date Set

Frisco King: we have an official release date. The Tulsa King spin-off starring Samuel L. Jackson arrives on Paramount+ in December.

Samuel L. Jackson inherits from Tulsa King not just a gangster, but the Sheridan method of colonizing another piece of America. The announcement arrived alongside the first official teaser, which immediately makes clear what the new kingdom will be built from: houses, parking lots, hotels, bundles of cash, explosions and even a frying pan used by Jackson for purposes unlikely to appear in a Texas cookbook.

Jackson returns as Russell Lee Washington Jr., known as Lee, the New Orleans gangster introduced in the third season of Tulsa King. An old prison acquaintance of Dwight Manfredi, he entered the parent series with orders to kill him, only to choose a different path and end up helping him.

The spin-off takes that second chance quite literally: Lee leaves his territory and lands in Frisco, Texas, where the orderly surface of American suburbia looks to him, above all, like a criminal market that has yet to be properly organized.

Frisco King, release date and relocation: from New Orleans to Texas

The project was announced in 2025 as NOLA King and was supposed to bring Lee back to his native New Orleans. In February 2026, however, Paramount+ changed the title, setting and creative structure, putting Taylor Sheridan in charge of writing all eight episodes of the first season.

Previous showrunner Dave Erickson, initially slated to lead the series, had left the project before filming began. Production then moved to North Texas, with filming starting in Fort Worth at the end of March.

Sheridan has gradually turned Texas not just into the setting for a growing portion of his television universe, but into a kind of narrative infrastructure. A territory large enough to accommodate oilmen, ranchers, special agents and now a New Orleans gangster convinced that the real contemporary West might be hiding behind irrigated lawns and shopping malls.

And Frisco, moreover, is not exactly the dusty village television westerns have accustomed us to. With a population approaching 250,000, it is not abandoned territory, but an economically vibrant, orderly place apparently already occupied by everything that ought to make a crime boss unnecessary.

Samuel L. Jackson builds a gang with the spin-off generation

Lee’s new organization also has a very different profile from the traditional Mafia family.

Asa Germann, seen in Gen V, plays Teddy, a college dropout with a strong entrepreneurial instinct; Kai Caster, previously seen in Yellowstone, is Keith, a valet at the Sandman hotel; Lilah Pate plays London, a local cheerleader who knows how to exploit her social capital, while Savanna Gann is Avery, her friend and another recruit to the team. Rather than a mob imported from the East Coast, it looks like a criminal startup assembled by studying the local labor market.

Sylvester Stallone will also return as Dwight Manfredi, a boss forced to understand an America that had moved on without him. Jackson can thus retain the structure of the aging criminal antihero arriving in new territory, while Lee has a different temperament, less interested in Mafia ritual and more inclined toward scams, improvisation and spotting opportunities.

The series will debut on Paramount+ on December 18, 2026, with the first two episodes, followed by a new installment every Friday.