The finale of Lioness Season 2 aired on December 8, 2024. Now, about ten months later, as we’re nearing the end of the 2025 TV schedule, the Taylor Sheridan series has finally been renewed for Season 3. Obviously, that kind of window between a finale and renewal is fairly unusual, but getting the specifics figured out took time.
Lioness features many major A-listers (like many Taylor Sheridan shows do), and figuring out a schedule for production is time-consuming, per Deadline. Apparently, Season 3 (which you can see the announcement for below) was actually greenlighted earlier this year. However, it wasn’t announced publicly because the schedule, specifically for Kidman and Saldaña, was still being figured out.
Personally, I don’t find this all that surprising. Take Nicole Kidman and her work as an example; she is very busy. In 2024, the year Season 2 of Lioness came out, she also released the miniseries Expats and The Perfect Couple, as well as the movies A Family Affair, Babygirl and Spellbound. Also, in 2025, she was part of the movie Holland and Season 2 of the series Nine Perfect Strangers.
Then, as we look forward to Season 3, we can also anticipate the release of Practical Magic 2, which recently wrapped. On top of that, Kidman is in post-production on two other TV shows called Scarpetta and Margo’s Got Money Troubles, and in pre-production on Discretion and Girls and Their Horses. I bet that kind of slate alone makes scheduling Lioness hard.
Saldaña has also been incredibly busy. In 2024, she released Emilia Pérez, which she won an Oscar for, and this year, the animated movie Elio premiered, and Avatar: Fire and Ash is slated to come out in December.
I imagine it becomes an even harder puzzle when you factor in the rest of the Lioness cast, which notably includes Michael Kelly, Morgan Freeman, Laysla De Oliveira, Dave Annable, Jill Wagner and more.
Along with that, while Saldaña had a three-season deal, there were reports months ago that Kidman had to negotiate a new one for Season 3, which, according to Deadline, took time. That deal came together earlier this year; however, scheduling still needed to be figured out.
So, considering all this, I’m grateful it’s all worked out, and now we know Season 3 of Lioness is really coming.
It is worth noting that it also took this long to renew Lioness for Season 2.
Anyway, now it’s time to get excited, because Season 3 of this espionage thriller is coming! And thankfully, while we wait, there’s a lot of other Sheridan shows coming down the pipe. At the moment, Tulsa King is being released for those with a Paramount+ subscription, and this month, on October 26, to be exact, Season 4 of Mayor of Kingstown will premiere in the same place. Then, on November 16, Season 2 of Landman will start, and over the course of the following months, we’ll get a few upcoming Yellowstone shows by way of the Rip and Beth spinoff and Kayce’s CBS series.
So, you’ll have plenty to watch while we wait, because the wait for Season 3 of Lioness really is on, which is very, very exciting.
This story has been updated to include more information on scheduling challenges.
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