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Netflix has announced that the hit modern western drama Ransom Canyon has been renewed for a second season. The first season spent four weeks in Netflix’s Global Top 10 TV (English) list and reached the Top 10 TV list in 77 countries.

“I couldn’t be happier that Netflix is ready to get back in the saddle for Ransom Canyon! Our dreamy little corner of Texas Hill Country is full of stories still untold, and we can’t wait to bring them to our incredible fans. Get ready for another ride,” said creator, showrunner, and executive producer April Blair.

Netflix describes Ransom Canyon as “comfort entertainment,” noting that it has a growing audience that prefers easy-to-watch stories. The streaming service is home to a slate of “blue skies” shows, movies, and games.

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“Ransom Canyon” will be returning to Netflix.

The Western drama series starring Minka Kelly and Josh Duhamel has been renewed for a second season, the streamer announced on Tuesday. The news comes just over two months after the show debuted on Netflix on April 17.

Production on Season 2 will return to Netflix’s Albuquerque Studios, which expanded to include four new soundstages across 108 acres last summer.

The series, which follows three ranching family dynasties as they vie for the land of Texas Hill Country, spent four weeks on Netflix’s top 10 English-language TV list and reached the top 10 in 77 countries.

“I couldn’t be happier that Netflix is ready to get back in the saddle for ‘Ransom Canyon!'” creator, showrunner and EP April Blair said in a statement. “Our dreamy little corner of Texas Hill Country is full of stories still untold, and we can’t wait to bring them to our incredible fans.

Netflix has given a Season 2 pickup to Ransom Canyon, its freshman romantic Western drama starring Josh Duhamel and Minka Kelly.

The news comes more than two months after the 10-episode first season of the series, an adaptation of Jodi Thomas’ books, was released. At the time, a Season 2 writers room, led by executive producer/showrunner April Blair, already was up and running. Filming on the new season is eyeing a September start, I hear. Set in Texas Hill Country, Ransom Canyon films in New Mexico, with production set to return to Netflix Studios Albuquerque, where Season 1 was based.

“I couldn’t be happier that Netflix is ready to get back in the saddle for Ransom Canyon,” Blair said. “Our dreamy little corner of Texas Hill Country is full of stories still untold, and we can’t wait to bring them to our incredible fans. Get ready for another ride.”

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It’s been almost a month since all episodes of Ransom Canyon began streaming on Netflix, and the streamer’s answer to Yellowstone has remained a hit. It didn’t take Josh Duhamel’s new Western series long to lasso a spot in the Netflix top 10. While most new arrivals quickly fade into the void before being forgotten, Ransom Canyon has carved out a different path for itself. Despite other new arrivals like The Eternaut hitting the platform after Ransom Canyon, it has remained one of the most popular projects on Netflix, sitting at #4 on TV charts at the time of writing. The show earned a “rotten” score of 45% from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, but the audience-driven Popcornmeter tells a different story, where it sits at a modest 72%.

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Netflix’s new Western series has been drawing comparisons to Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone, and despite being poorly received by critics, the show has still been a huge hit for the streamer. Ransom Canyon, which stars Josh Duhamel and Minka Kelly, remains the second-most-popular project on Netflix at the time of writing, 12 days after its premiere. The series has earned a 44% score from critics on the aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes, but general audiences have been higher on the contemporary Western series, rating it at 73%. Ransom Canyon is a romance-charged family drama set against the backdrop of Texas Hill Country. The show follows the intersecting work and personal lives of three ranching families. Eoin Macken, Lizzy Greene, and Garrett Wareing also star in the Netflix series.

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Saddle up for a new Western show that has a little bit of everything on Netflix. Ransom Canyon, based on the book by Jodi Thomas, will capture stories of a small town in the wild west.

Led by Josh Duhamel and Minka Kelly, the Netflix series arrives mid-April. Read on for everything we know about Ransom Canyon:

When does Ransom Canyon come out?

Ransom Canyon arrives on Netflix Thursday, April 17.

Who is in the cast of Ransom Canyon?

The show will be headlined by Josh Duhamel and Minka Kelly as characters from the book Staten Kirkland, a stoic rancher, and Quinn O’Grady, a pianist who keeps to herself.

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Today, Netflix released the official trailer and key art for the new modern Western drama, Ransom Canyon. Starring Josh Duhamel and Minka Kelly, the new series will debut on April 17.

Welcome to Ransom Canyon, where love, loss, and loyalty collide beneath the crimson mesas of Texas Hill Country. With three ranching family dynasties locked in a contest for control of the land, their lives and legacies are threatened by outside forces intent on destroying their way of life.

At the center of it all is stoic rancher Staten Kirkland (Josh Duhamel), who is healing from a heartbreaking loss and on a quest for vengeance. Staten’s only glimmer of hope rests in the eyes and heart of Quinn O’Grady (Minka Kelly), longtime family friend and owner of the local dancehall.

But as the battle to save Ransom wages on, a mysterious cowboy drifts into town, dredging up secrets from the past.

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“In Ransom Canyon,” Josh Duhamel’s voice says over shots of ranchers riding horses, the main thoroughfare of the small Texas town, high school football games and more. “Everyone’s running from something, or running to something.”

Duhamel stars as Staten Kirkland, one of the main ranchers in the titular town, who is part of a large ensemble of the new Netflix show, out April 17.

“What’s up with that guy anyway?” Jack Schumacher’s Yancy Grey, who can be seen later on in the trailer risking it all for a rodeo ride, asks Cap Fuller (James Brolin) about the stoic Staten.

“He lost everything,” Brolin replies over a montage of a car wreck and police sirens.

“Ransom Canyon,” a new modern western drama series starring Josh Duhamel and Minka Kelly, will debut April 17 on Netflix.

According to a press release, the series will follow three ranching family dynasties “locked in a contest for control of their land, their lives and legacies” in Ransom Canyon, Texas. Duhamel will play Staten Kirkland, a “stoic” rancher who’s “healing from heartbreaking loss” and on a quest for vengeance.

He’s joined by Minka Kelly as Quinn O’Grady, a family friend and the owner of a local dancehall. With Quinn’s help, Staten “fights to protect the land he calls home, and the only love that can pull him back from the demons that haunt him.” Other series regulars include James Brolin, Eoin Macken, Lizzy Greene, Andrew Liner, Marianly Tejada, Garrett Wareing and Jack Schumacher.

April Blair serves as writer, showrunner, and executive producer of “Ransom Canyon,” with additional writers Joe Fazzio,...

Night Train is a movie by Shane Stanley in which we can see Diora Baird in a very American thriller. The co-star is Abraham Benrubi.

The plot is about a Hollywood truck driver who avoids being pursued by the FBI. Our dear Diora Baird will piece everything together in this action thriller written by Shane Stanley.

Souped up cars, races and lots of road humor in this production with a very American flavor.

Our Opinion Night Train (2023)

This isn´t going to be the blockbuster of the year. It is a very simple thriller done with just enough resources and which is happy to be a secondary market product.

You can get an idea with this information and a little imagination (without much malice or sarcasm).

Coches tuneados, carreras y mucho humor en la carretera para esta producción con un ssabor profundamente americano.

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Buckle up for high-octane action thrills aboard Night Train.

Screen Rant is pleased to present an exclusive clip from Saban Films' newest action thriller, Night Train. Currently playing in select theaters before arriving on digital and On Demand next week, the action-packed adventure was directed and produced by Shane Stanley from a screenplay by Cj Walley (who also served as producer). Night Train stars Danielle C. Ryan as a woman driven to extremes and features a strong supporting cast that includes Diora Baird, Joseph D. Reitman, Ivan Sergei, Brent Bailey, Kevin Joy, Paul Haapaniemi, Reggie Austin, Thomas Nelson, Joe Lando, and Abraham Benrubi.

Night Train follows Holly McCord (Ryan), a mother who is desperate enough to save the life of her young son that she will take on any job, whether it's hustling strangers or hauling black market drugs with her souped-up truck. Despite having bounties on her head and federal agents like Jaylynne Jackson (Baird) in hot pursuit,...

Exclusive: After a turn on HBO’s In Treatment, and starring opposite Dwayne Johnson in Warner Bros/DC’s Black Adam, Quintessa Swindell is ascending to the lead role in Spyglass Media Group’s rock climbing thriller Deadpoint, Deadline can tell you first.

The story follows a young woman who sets out to complete the treacherous mountain climb that claimed her father’s life. Mid-journey, she stumbles upon a murder and becomes the target of a ruthless band of criminals who want to eliminate the only witness to their crime. Alone in the unforgiving wilderness, and clinging to a sheer rock wall, her only escape is up.

Freaks directing team Adam Stein & Zach Lipovsky will helm from a screenplay by Paul Haapaniemi (Jane By Design) with Good Fear Content’s Chris Bender and Jake Weiner producing.

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Stars: Benedict Mazurek, Alexandra Keller, Paul Haapaniemi, Angela Smeraldi | Written and Directed by Lexie Findarle Trivundza, Nick Trivundza

Set in the 1908s, Hunters sees husband and wife writer/director team Lexie Findarle Trivundza and Nick Trivundza, who have also collaborated on The West and the Ruthless and Tales from the Black Manor, attempting to do what many have tried, but few have managed to accomplish… Recreate an 80s action epic on a budget that would make a Cannon Films release look epic.

It’s 1985 and Jonathan Danger has just parachuted onto an island off the coast of Africa, impaling himself on a large stick in the process. Once he removes it and realizes he’s in the middle of someone’s camp he goes looking not for medical supplies but something to light a cigarette with. Because nothing says tough guy like bleeding to death so you can have a smoke.

Adam Stein and Zach Lipovsky, the filmmaking duo behind the cult indie sci-fi hit Freaks, have signed on to direct Deadpoint, a rock climbing thriller for Spyglass Media Group.

Chris Bender and Jake Weiner of Good Fear, the production and management concern that last year had Mulan and My Spy as pandemic hits, are producing the thriller, marking a rare foray into original fare for Spyglass, which has been focused on its vast library and rebooting titles such as Scream and Hellraiser.

The script by Paul Haapaniemi follows a young woman who sets out to complete the treacherous mountain climb that claimed her father’s life....

Adam Stein and Zach Lipovsky, the filmmaking duo behind the cult indie sci-fi hit Freaks, have signed on to direct Deadpoint, a rock climbing thriller for Spyglass Media Group.

Chris Bender and Jake Weiner of Good Fear, the production and management concern that last year had Mulan and My Spy as pandemic hits, are producing the thriller, marking a rare foray into original fare for Spyglass, which has been focused on its vast library and rebooting titles such as Scream and Hellraiser.

The script by Paul Haapaniemi follows a young woman who sets out to complete the treacherous mountain climb that claimed her father’s life....