‘Ride’: Showrunner Sherri Cooper-Landsman On Hallmark Drama’s Similarities To ‘Yellowstone’ And Her Future With The Rodeo Series

deadline.com:

SPOILER ALERT! This story reveals plot point from the March 26 series premiere of Ride on Hallmark. It takes place on a bucolic but cash-strapped ranch that’s operated by a widowed parent who loses a beloved family member in the premiere episode — all while everyone looks straight-up sexy in their Wranglers and cowboy boots.

But that’s where the similarities to Yellowstone end for Hallmark’s Ride, insists Sherri Cooper-Landsman (Brothers and Sisters, Everwood), who showruns the new drama about a rodeo dynasty with Rebecca Boss and Chris Masi (Our Kind of People). “For me, it was just this beautiful ranch setting with a family going through stuff that a family goes through,” Cooper-Landsman tells Deadline of Ride. “And to be honest, I hadn’t even watched Yellowstone, so I did not even think about that.

It just was this beautiful setting and a worlds that Becky [Rebecca] really knew so well.” Ride, which is co-produced by Endeavor-backed Blink49 Studios and Seven24 Films, in partnership with Bell Media for CTV Drama Channel in Canada, stars Nancy Travis as matriarch Isabel Murray and Beau Mirchoff (Good Trouble), Jake Foy (Designated Survivor) and Marcus Rosner (Arrow) as her sons Cash, Tuff and Austin.

Tiera Skovbye plays Austin’s wife, Missy. Here, Cooper-Landsman breaks down the premiere episode and what fans can expect from the series that’s shot entirely in Calgary, Alberta. DEADLINE You were brought in after the show was pitched.