'McBee Dynasty' Renewed for Season 3 at Bravo, Set to Start Filming
This Week as Patriarch Steve is Sentenced for Fraud
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Bravo has renewed its viral hit "The McBee Dynasty: Real American
Cowboys" for a third season, and will begin filming ahead of the
Oct. 16 sentencing of family patriarch Steve McBee Sr. The show -
which is as if "The Righteous Gemstones" and "Succession" had a
reality baby - moved to Bravo from Peacock for its second season,
and found success there.
In November 2024, McBee pleaded guilty in federal court to -˙
according to a Department of Justice press release -˙a
"multi-million dollar fraud scheme involving federal crop insurance
benefits he was not entitled to receive" from 2018 through 2020. In
other words, he falsified reports for the family's Gallatin, Mo.,
farm in order to receive subsidies and insurance payments they
weren't authorized to get. In a memo from Oct. 6, prosecutors asked
U.S. District Court Judge Stephen R. Bough to sentence McBee to
41 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release
and more than $4 million in restitution.
On the show, the economics of McBee Farming Operations are always
presented as precarious. Because of these legal problems, McBee
appeared only twice in the show's second season, after taking
center stage in Season 1.
According to ratings provided by Bravo, Season 2 of "The˙McBee˙
Dynasty" -˙which ran from June 30-Sept. 1 - averaged 1.3 million
weekly viewers across platforms. Compared with Season 1, its
ratings were up 82% on Peacock and 213% on DVR. The second half of
the 10-episode season showed gains of˙+16% on Peacock˙and˙+8%˙on
Bravo through seven-day viewership. In an interesting statistic,
about one-third of the second season's "McBee" audience, Bravo says,
"co-viewed with someone else on both Bravo and Peacock, making it a˙
Top 4 Original Series of 2025˙on both platforms - fueled by female
viewers watching with male viewers."
In Steve McBee Sr.'s absence, the second season focused on
Steven Jr. and his brothers˙Jesse McBee˙and˙Cole, as they tried to
save the farm and engaged in their messy personal lives. The show's
official logline reads, "On the heels of a wedding and the arrival
of two new babies, the˙McBee˙clan is growing -˙and so are the
challenges of balancing love, legacy, and life on the ranch."
"The˙McBee˙Dynasty"˙is produced by Jeff Jenkins Productions, in
association with 3BMG. Jenkins, Russell Jay-Staglik, Luke Neslage,
Brandon Beck, Ross Weintraub and Reinout Oerlemans executive produce.?˙˙
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