‘McBee Dynasty’ renewed for season 3 on Bravo ahead of Steven McBee’s conviction

Bravo has renewed its viral hit “The McBee Dynasty: Real American Cowboys” for a third season and will begin filming ahead of the sentencing of family patriarch Steven McBee Sr. on October 16. The show — which is like “The Righteous Gemstones” and “Succession” had a reality baby — moved from Peacock to Bravo for its second season and found success there.

In November 2024, McBee pleaded guilty in federal court to – according to a Press release from the Ministry of Justice – a “multi-million dollar fraud scheme involving federal crop insurance benefits he was not entitled to” from 2018 through 2020. In other words, he falsified reports for the family’s farm in Gallatin, Mo., to receive subsidies and insurance payments they were not authorized to receive. In an October 6 memo: the prosecutors asked U.S. District Court Judge Stephen R. Bough sentenced 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. Due to these legal issues, McBee only appeared twice in the show’s second season after taking center stage in Season 1.

According to Bravo ratings, Season 2 of “The McBee Dynasty” – which ran from June 30 to September 2014 – has ended. 1 – average 1.3 million weekly viewers across platforms. Compared to season 1, ratings were up 82% on Peacock and 213% on DVR. The second half of the 10-episode season saw a seven-day lift of +16% on Peacock and +8% on Bravo. An interesting statistic shows that about a third of the second season’s “McBee” audience, Bravo says, “watched 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 alongside male viewers.”