‘Yellowstone’ Star Kevin Costner Is Coming To Fox News Media’s Streaming Service

Kevin Costner, the star of the top-rated Paramount Network TV drama “Yellowstone,” is headed to Fox News Media’s streaming service later this year for a four-part docuseries focused on Yellowstone National Park.

The top-rated cable news network announced on Tuesday that it’s signed a deal with Costner, which will see him narrate and host “Yellowstone: One-Fifty” that’s set to arrive in the fourth quarter on the Fox Nation subscription service. Developed by Costner’s Territory Films along with Warm Springs Productions, the series is timed to the 150th anniversary of the park this year — and Fox adds that the four episodes will be released “consecutively on the platform throughout its debut week.”

In a statement about the deal, Fox Nation president Jason Klarman explained that the forthcoming Costner-led series “exemplifies the superior creative content that we strive to deliver exclusively to our subscribers. We are thrilled to collaborate with an iconic actor and filmmaker of Kevin Costner’s caliber on this project.”

“Yellowstone: One-Fifty” also represents another strategic addition to the existing lineup of content available through Fox Nation, which currently boasts almost 5,000 hours of conservative opinion programming, lifestyle content, and entertainment titles — along with historical documentaries and investigative series, including many from high-profile Fox News personalities. 

Examples of the latter include What Made America Great, which kicked off its eighth season at the end of January. It’s helmed by Fox host Brian Kilmeade, and explores different locales that shaped the history of America. This new season, for example, finds Kilmeade traveling to Ellis Island and exploring New York City’s first urban renewal project, Mulberry Bend, in addition to talking with guests like immigration attorney Michael Wildes, former NYPD Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and historian and Columbia University Professor David Eisenbach.

Costner, meanwhile, is an especially noteworthy name to add to the service, given that Yellowstone the TV show is a ratings bonanza for Paramount Network. Not only has the show ascended to be the top-rated cable TV series, but Yellowstone also consistently breaks its own records. What’s more: It doesn’t hurt that Fox Nation is not only grabbing a star from the show, but putting him out front for a docuseries of more or less the same name.

This docuseries is also “strategic” for Fox Nation, in the sense that Fox’s streamer is not necessarily making a volume play along the lines of other streaming services. The network is essentially programming Fox Nation, more or less, with Fox superfans in mind — which is to say, content like the Costner-led docuseries is meant to be complementary to an overall experience with Fox. Also worth pointing out, along these same lines: Fox Nation is not intended to be some sort of “skinny” version of Fox, of a sort geared toward cord-cutters.

It’s a strategy that also makes the service something of the polar opposite of CNN+, the forthcoming streaming service from CNN for which the network went on a hiring spree — including poaching at least one personality from Fox News — and is loading it up with an expansive launch slate of daily and weekly shows.

Meanwhile, for more examples in addition to the Costner-led series by way of illustrating the different strategy Fox Nation is pursuing:

Available as of today, FOX Nation is offering subscribers Season1-9 of “Forensic Files,” with 195 episodes of the series now available on Fox Nation. And starting Friday, March 4, Fox Nation will release the second half of Season 33 of COPS (the first half of which premiered in the fall of 2021).

Earlier this month, the platform added 12 episodes from Season 31 of COPS, and 18 episodes from Season 32 of COPS. The remaining 19 episodes will debut on the service every Friday at 6 pm ET. And in tandem with those newly acquired episodes, Fox Nation is also bringing back its limited series “COPS: All Access with Geraldo,” with new episodes there also kicking off on March 4.

The latter is hosted by Geraldo Rivera, Fox News Channel correspondent-at-large and co-host of “The Five.” And it will feature interviews with law enforcement officials as well as Fox personalities who will react to the episodes as part of a larger conversation around policing in the US.