What's shooting in Texas: September 2026.

Second edition of the ledger. Same rules as August: sorted by region, a named source on every line, nothing I can't point to. Two corrections to the August edition sit at the bottom, because a ledger that never corrects itself isn't one.

North Texas is still the whole map.

The Chosen is finishing its seventh and final season at Camp Hoblitzelle in Midlothian. The Deseret News reported in June that the production split 90 shooting days between Goshen, Utah and Texas, with the Texas leg running through September, and the Dallas Morning News has been carrying the show's calls for more extras. If you want to see a standing-set operation at scale in this state, this is the one. It closes when the season does.

Frisco King, the Tulsa King series with Samuel L. Jackson, has wrapped. It shot in Fort Worth, Southlake and Frisco from late March, per the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. The wrap was reported in the North Texas press and picked up nationally. I couldn't confirm the exact date, so I'm not printing one.

Landman season three is the one to watch. Billy Bob Thornton told the Dallas Morning News in May that filming would start in North Texas in late August. As of this writing there is no confirmed start on the record, and the fan sites are saying late September. Treat it as prepping until someone with a call sheet says otherwise.

Dutton Ranch season two is not shooting and won't be this year. Kelly Reilly told The Hollywood Reporter in July that production is slated for early 2027, “but the room starts up pretty quick.” That is a 2027 crew commitment in North Texas, already on the calendar. Every show on this page that comes back next year hires against a higher number: the residency requirement steps from 35% to 40% on September 1, 2027. It is two tests, paid crew and paid cast including extras, per the Texas Film Commission's TMIIIP page as of September 4, 2026.

One new door. Arlington launched a film commission on June 17 with AFCI membership, free permitting through FilmApp and a locations directory, per the city's release.

Central Texas is building, not shooting.

204 Texas broke ground in Bastrop on April 6, per Community Impact: six 20,000-square-foot studios, two 10,000-square-foot sound stages and a 50,000-square-foot warehouse with mill space on nearly 600 acres. No opening date has been published. Plan nothing around it until one is.

Austin itself: I could not find a scripted feature or series at scale on the public record this month. The Film Commission's February anniversary campaign named 1923 and Bad Thoughts as its recent credits, and nothing newer has surfaced. If something is shooting here that isn't in the news, this ledger is wrong and I want to fix it.

Houston and San Antonio, quiet on the record.

The Houston Film Commission's own cast-and-crew board, updated August 28, lists a vertical mockumentary series, a YouTube science series and a handful of shorts and web pilots, most of them unpaid. That is a real board and a real community. It is not a slate.

San Antonio: nothing scripted at scale on the record for September. The city's own rebate, 10% with two 2% uplifts and a $250,000 cap per project as announced last November, surpasses every other Texas city by the city's own account. The stack is waiting on the shows.

El Paso: nothing new on the public record since August.

West Texas, delivered.

The Texas Tech football docuseries for Paramount+, produced with Skydance Sports and Second Wind Creative, shot in Lubbock from January through the offseason and was slated to premiere before the season, per Texas Tech Athletics. Unscripted counts, and it counts for the crew base most of all.

On the record, and off it.

Steven Spielberg told a SXSW audience in March that he wants to make a western and shoot it in Texas, and that it's in development with nothing to reveal, per Tribeza. I've heard the West Texas scouting talk since. Nothing on the record, so nothing here beyond what he said.

Paramount: The Real Deal reported August 25 that Paramount Skydance is looking at Bluebonnet Business Center, a 415,000-square-foot building in East Austin, for a possible headquarters if David Ellison follows through on leaving California, with Tennessee and Georgia also in the frame, per CRE Daily's summary of the report. Hines, Aquila and Paramount all declined to comment. The only confirmed fact is that the building exists. The Texas A&M researcher The Real Deal asked said decisions like this run on emotional reasons as much as metrics. Nobody reputable is quoting odds. Until a lease is signed, it's a rumor with a floor plan.

Two corrections to the August edition.

Eleven Days, the Carrasco siege film with Taylor Kitsch and Diego Luna, was not “set up to shoot in state.” It shot in Texas starting in September 2025, per the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and was on the market at EFM in January, per Deadline. It's done. My mistake.

Landman did not start “this month” in August, as far as anyone has confirmed. See above.

The line.

Texas production in September 2026 is North Texas and everything else, and the everything else is either building a stage or waiting for one.

If your show is on the October edition and it isn't from here, let me know!