Tulsa King Season 5 Leaves Oklahoma for New York

Paramount+ renewed Tulsa King for a fifth season on October 5, 2026, and started shooting in New York before season 4 premieres. Season 4 arrives on October 16. The new order sends Sylvester Stallone’s Dwight Manfredi back toward the New York family that exiled him.

The pickup is a win for a series that has been a Paramount+ staple since November 13, 2022. It is also a quiet rewrite of the premise. A show named for Tulsa is now a New York production, with cameras already rolling on the city Dwight was supposed to have left.

Paramount+ Ordered Season 5 While Season 4 Was Still Unseen

The streamer’s October 5 release said season 5 returns to Dwight “The General” Manfredi’s mafia roots and relocates production from Atlanta to New York to match that story, with production now underway. Stallone remains the star and an executive producer. Terence Winter is listed as head writer and executive producer. Paramount Television Studios and 101 Studios stay on as the producing banners.

Stallone recently signed a new deal that helped lock the fifth season, after an earlier pact that covered seasons 3 and 4. A writers’ room for season 5 had already opened in June. By the day of the announcement, the company was not teasing a later start date. It was describing a shoot that had begun.

Stallone put a clock on the New York work in a recent interview, speaking as both lead and producer.

We’ll be here for four or five months.

Sylvester Stallone, star and executive producer

Drew Brown, executive vice president of physical production at Paramount Television Studios, framed the move as story first and Georgia second.

We are thrilled to bring fans even more of this incredible series, and to be shooting the next season of Tulsa King in New York, where Dwight Manfredi’s story will continue to evolve. We’re proud of the work we’ve done in Georgia, and it remains an important venue for us.

Drew Brown, EVP of Physical Production, Paramount Television Studios, in the October 5 announcement

The Show Named for Tulsa Is Going Home

Dwight’s origin story is a banishment. After 25 years in prison, the New York capo is sent to Tulsa by his own family and builds a crew in a city that was never supposed to be home. Seasons 1 through 3, which add up to 29 episodes already on Paramount+, play that joke in both directions: the old wiseguy learning Oklahoma, and Oklahoma learning him.

Season 5 drops the distance. The official language is not “a few New York episodes.” It is a relocation of the production to coincide with a storyline that sends Dwight back to his mafia roots. The title stays. The map does not.

That split is already the loudest argument around the order. A series can keep a name after it leaves the place on the poster, and plenty of crime shows have done it. This one sold itself on the mismatch, the capo in cowboy country, the king of a city that did not ask for him. Shooting the next chapter in New York fixes the geography and spends some of that joke.

The season 5 release also leaves a hole where the Tulsa ensemble should be. Martin Starr, Jay Will, Garrett Hedlund, and Annabella Sciorra are central to the Oklahoma crew on screen. None of them is named in the new-season announcement, which is not the same thing as a firing. It is a silence, and it is the first thing the New York turn puts in doubt.

Why Season 5 Leaves Atlanta for New York

Paramount+ is moving the show because the next story is a homecoming and because New York now pays like a production state. Those two reasons arrived together. A writers’ room opened in June with plans to shoot in New York, and the October 5 order made the move official rather than hypothetical.

The dramatic cue is already in the season 4 materials. Dwight is fighting to legitimize his empire while a crushing personal loss and new enemies close in, and each move drags him back into the street instincts he left behind in New York. Winter has said Quiet Ray Renzetti, the New York boss played by James Russo, comes into season 4 as antagonistic as ever, with the rivalry heating up, and that Dwight’s trouble will come from the tech and political worlds as well as the Mob.

The money cue is the state credit. New York matches Georgia’s headline 30% film rebate. In the FY 2026 budget signed in May 2025, Albany also built an additional 5% to 10% tax credit for companies that file two or more applications, running through 2028, and it stripped the $500,000 cap on above-the-line pay per person. Credits for new filings pay out in the same year. The program itself was extended from 2034 to 2036.

WHAT NEW YORK CHANGED IN 2025

• Base rebate: A 30% refundable credit, set to match Georgia’s rate.
• Production Plus: An extra 5% to 10% through 2028 for companies that come back with two or more applications.
• Star pay: The $500,000 cap on above-the-line compensation per person is gone.
• Payout speed: New filings get the full credit in the same year instead of over two or three.

Hope Knight, president, CEO, and commissioner of Empire State Development, treated the landing as a win for the Hochul administration’s film tax credit program, talking up jobs, locations, and a growing list of projects shot in the state. For a Sheridan series that has lived in heartland settings, a full New York season is a break in the pattern, even if some earlier work visited Manhattan. The story needed the city. The rebate made the city cheap enough to use for months, not a week of second unit.

A Polite Goodbye to the Georgia Years

Brown’s Georgia line is doing work. Tulsa King shot its first four seasons in Atlanta, with Oklahoma used for location work, including on season 3. Eagle Rock Studios in the Atlanta suburbs housed later seasons. The New York move ends that run in a single sentence of a renewal press release.

Georgia still has the 30% credit New York copied. What it does not have, on this show, is the next story. Dwight’s next chapter is written as a return to New York, so the stages follow him. Brown can call Georgia an important venue and mean it for other Paramount jobs. On Tulsa King, the important venue is now the one on the call sheet for four or five months.

The crew question travels with the trucks. A New York season hires New York. The Atlanta team that built four years of Oklahoma interiors does not automatically follow a capo back to the boroughs. Paramount did not publish a transfer plan. It published a thank-you.

Terence Winter Remains the Head Writer

The creative credits on the season 5 order look stable only if you ignore the years under them. Winter, the Boardwalk Empire creator and a Sopranos veteran, ran season 1 as showrunner, then left that job after creative differences with Taylor Sheridan, who created the series and remains an executive producer. Season 2 went forward without a traditional showrunner. Dave Erickson, who had run Mayor of Kingstown, took season 3 and then departed. Winter came back for season 4 as head writer and executive producer, leading the room from Los Angeles rather than running the Atlanta set day to day.

The October 5 release uses that same pairing again: head writer and executive producer. It does not restore the showrunner title. Sheridan is still on the EP list, as are Stallone, David C. Glasser, Ron Burkle, David Hutkin, Bob Yari, Thomas Kelly, and Keith Cox. The machine that got season 4 finished without a classic on-set boss is the machine Paramount just booked for New York.

WHERE TULSA KING HAS SHOT

The pattern is not chaos so much as a habit. Sheridan’s shows often skip a classic writers-room-and-showrunner stack. Tulsa King tried the stack, dropped it, tried it again, then settled on Winter as the writer who can work with Stallone without holding the on-set title. Season 5 keeps that settlement and changes the city under it.

THE SHOWRUNNER SHUFFLE

1. November 13, 2022: The series premieres on Paramount+, with Winter as showrunner.
2. 2023: Winter leaves the showrunner job after creative differences with Sheridan.
3. Season 2: Production continues without a traditional showrunner.
4. Season 3: Erickson runs the series, then exits before season 4.
5. September 2025: Winter returns as head writer and EP for season 4.
6. October 5, 2026: The season 5 order lists Winter in that same head-writer role as New York production begins.

That history is why the New York move can look smoother on paper than it will feel on a stage. The writing lead is in place. The showrunner title is still not. The city is new. The star is the constant.

Four New Faces and a Promotion for Spencer

Scarlet Rose Stallone, who has played Dwight’s daughter Spencer across all four seasons, is now a series regular. That is the one Tulsa-era relationship the season 5 announcement chose to underline. If the story is leaving Oklahoma, Spencer is the character Paramount is paying as if she is going with it.

Four actors join as series regulars, with their roles still under wraps.

SEASON 5 SERIES REGULARS

• Scarlet Rose Stallone: Promoted to regular as Spencer after four seasons in the part.
• Erik Palladino: Joins as a regular; his recent credit is I Play Rocky.
• Glenn Fleshler: Joins as a regular, coming off Billions.
• Anthony Skordi: Joins as a regular, coming off The Last Frontier.
• Nickola Shreli: Joins as a regular, coming off Power Book IV: Force.

Fleshler and Skordi read as New York crime-world casting even before anyone publishes a character breakdown. Palladino arriving from a Stallone-adjacent Rocky project keeps the lead’s orbit tight. Shreli’s Power world sits closer to modern organized crime than to Oklahoma bourbon. None of that proves the Tulsa crew is gone. It does show where the new salaries are pointed.

Season 4 still has its own addition. Gretchen Mol joins the season 4 cast as a series regular, playing Amanda Clark, a Tulsa politician, alongside returning names that include Starr, Jay Will, Vincent Piazza, Sciorra, Chris Caldovino, Frank Grillo, Kevin Pollak, Neal McDonough, Garrett Hedlund, Dana Delany, and Russo. That is a full Oklahoma table. Season 5’s published table is Stallone, his daughter, and four strangers.

Season 4 Has to Explain the Trip East

The October 16 premiere now has a second job. It has to be a season of television, and it has to make the New York turn feel earned instead of like a tax-credit change of address. The official season 4 synopsis already points that way, with corrupt politicians, dangerous new enemies, and a crushing personal loss hitting at once, and with Tulsa turned into a battleground that pulls Dwight back toward New York habits.

Winter’s Quiet Ray warning sits on that same track. If the New York boss and the Tulsa king spend season 4 trying to finish each other, a fifth season shot in New York is a consequence, not a surprise. If season 4 stays a local Oklahoma war, the cameras waiting in New York will need a harder shove than a liquor license and a grudge.

Paramount+ did not wait to find out. It booked the fifth season, moved the work to New York, promoted Spencer, and hired four new regulars while season 4 was still in the trailer. The king is still called Tulsa King. For the next four or five months, he is a New York hire.