The best Western of the 1980s was only possible because John Wayne passed on the original screenplay years before, as he didn't like the pitch.

Tommy Lee Jones remains an impressive actor, but one of his best roles was in a Western series that remains a gem in the genre.

In more than 50 stunning photos from the acclaimed 1989 CBS miniseries Lonesome Dove, Texas' mythic past comes alive in a way it never quite did in reality. Chron Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo Skip ...

Name your favorite Larry McMurtry movie. Wait, don't say "Lonesome Dove." That was a TV miniseries, not a feature film. So were three related "Lonesome Dove" miniseries that were based on novels ...

Robert Duvall (as Augustus ‘Gus’ McCrae) and Rick Schroder (as Newt Dobbs) lean on a fence in a scene from the television miniseries “Lonesome Dove” in 1989.

Like many now gray-haired men of my generation, and a few women too, I wanted to be a cowboy. TV made me that way, starting with such early shoot-’em-up characters as Hopalong Cassidy, the Lone ...

Lonesome Dove, the miniseries, starred Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones and pulled in an estimated 26M viewers. The four-part adaptation won a Peabody, seven Emmys, ...

Along came an American TV Western, Lonesome Dove, a 1989 miniseries that had a profound effect on the filmmakers and actors alike. Duvall came to the project already a bonafide star, famous for ...

Teton Ridge Entertainment has acquired the rights to “Lonesome Dove,” Larry McMurtry‘s sprawling series of novels about the American West. The deal was made between the entertainment company ...

Teton Ridge has acquired the rights to adapt Larry McMurtry’s ‘Lonesome Dove’ and the subsequent books in the Pulitzer Prize-winning series.

Return to Lonesome Dove is a sequel to the hit series Lonesome Dove. In the opening episode Captain Woodrow F. Call heads back to his Montana ranch with a heard of wild horses where he has left ...