Dwight Manfredi is back. Tulsa King Season 4 premieres today, Friday, October 16, on Paramount+, with Sylvester Stallone returning as the New York mafia capo turned Tulsa kingpin and new episodes dropping weekly. The streamer released the official teaser ahead of launch, and its warning is blunt: “Bad things are gonna happen to bad people.”
Tulsa King Season 4: the quick answers
Premiere date: Friday, October 16, 2026, on Paramount+.
Release schedule: new episodes weekly after the premiere, per Variety.
Where to watch: Paramount+, on any plan. Seasons 1 through 3 are streaming now, 29 episodes in all, per Paramount+.
Creative team: Terence Winter (The Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire) is head writer and executive producer, with Taylor Sheridan and Stallone among the executive producers.
Watch the teaser: embedded below.
Watch the Season 4 teaser
What Season 4 is about
The official description sets the stakes: Dwight fights to legitimize his empire and protect his crew as corrupt politicians, dangerous new enemies, and a crushing personal loss hit from every direction. Each move drags him deeper into the street instincts he left behind in New York, “turning Tulsa into a battleground, and Dwight into the one threat no one can afford to underestimate.”
Season 3 ended on a surprising twist, per Paramount+, which makes the premiere a genuine checkpoint for anyone who fell behind.
Who is back, and who is new
Stallone leads a returning cast that includes Martin Starr, Jay Will, Vincent Piazza, Annabella Sciorra, Chris Caldovino, McKenna Quigley Harrington, Frank Grillo, Mike “Cash Flo” Walden, James Russo, Kevin Pollak, and Neal McDonough, with Garrett Hedlund and Dana Delany. Gretchen Mol (Boardwalk Empire) joins as a series regular, playing Amanda Clark alongside McDonough’s Cal Thresher in first-look photos. Stallone’s daughter Scarlet Stallone also appears this season as Spencer.
What this means for readers and fans
Catch-up plan: all 29 prior episodes are on Paramount+; the Season 3 finale twist is the one thing not to skip.
Weekly rhythm: new episodes land Fridays, so this is an appointment-viewing season rather than a one-day binge.
More Tulsa King universe is coming: the Samuel L. Jackson spinoff Frisco King, built around his Season 3 guest role as hitman Russell Lee Washington Jr., has completed shooting and awaits a premiere date, per Variety.
Season 5 watch: no formal renewal yet, but a writers’ room opened in June with an eye on moving production to New York, Variety reports, so the smart money is on more Dwight after this run.
The road to Season 4: key dates
September 1, 2026: Paramount+ announces the October 16 premiere and drops the first gun-toting teaser.
September 16, 2026: the official Season 4 teaser arrives on the Paramount+ YouTube channel.
October 12, 2026: Paramount+ publishes its Season 4 guide with first-look photos and the full cast list.
October 16, 2026: Season 4 premieres, with weekly episodes to follow.
Why Tulsa King still anchors Paramount+
Three seasons in, Tulsa King remains the streamer’s most reliable original draw: a movie star in his first lead TV role, a Sopranos veteran running the writers’ room, and the Taylor Sheridan pipeline feeding it spinoffs. Frisco King extending the universe with Samuel L. Jackson is the tell that Paramount sees this as a franchise, not a one-off. Season 4’s “legitimize the empire” arc also gives Winter his richest Sopranos echo yet: a boss trying to go straight while everything around him pulls the other way.
