. With the show’s fate seemingly in shambles, there was growing frustration on whether the cast and crew would ever return to Montana to finish shooting the rest of season 5. Beginning May 25, all eight episodes of the first half of season 5 will be available to stream exclusively on Peacock.
What’s more, the outlet reports that while waiting on Costner’s attorney, Howard Kaplan, “to provide a final answer on what Costner is willing to do,” McCarthy just decided to announce the end date for the new episodes, with “the first few of which written with flexibility to allow for various levels of Costner involvement .”drama.
“We are all waiting to see what is going to happen with Kevin Costner, as we know he is leaving the show,” Malkin tells ET. “But will they kill him off? Will they keep him around just in case he wants to come back [in a ] spin-off? That is the big question. Negotiations are ongoing with how much time Kevin is willing shoot the show.”, Malkin says being killed off a show is not alwaysin a dream sequence with Meredith Gray,” Malkin said.