Gus and Woodrow are back!

Get your VCR or TiVo ready! The prequel to the greatest "man-show" ever — Lonesome Dove is coming in January.

Comanche Moon, a new six-hour mini-series based on the book by Larry McMurtry, and the final chapter in the Lonesome Dove saga will be broadcast Sunday, January. 13, Tuesday, January 15 and Wednesday, January 16 on CBS.

Comanche Moon, the prequel to Lonesome Dove, follows Texas Rangers Augustus "Gus" McCrae and Woodrow F. Call, now in their middle years, as they continue to deal with the ever-increasing tensions of adult life - Gus with his great love, Clara Forsythe, and Call with Maggie Tilton, the young prostitute who loves him and bears him his son, Newt.

Two proud but very different men, McCrae and Call enlist with a Ranger troop in pursuit of three outlaws: Buffalo Hump, the great Comanche war chief; Kicking Wolf, the celebrated Comanche horse thief; and Ahumado, a deadly Mexican bandit king with a penchant for torture. Assisting the Rangers in their wild chase is the renowned Kickapoo tracker Famous Shoes. They are joined by their comrades-in-arms, Deets, Jake Spoon and Pea Eye Parker, in the bitter struggle to protect an advancing western frontier against the defiant Comanches who are determined to defend their territory and their way of life. The Rangers also encounter Buffalo Hump's violent outcast son, Blue Duck.

It's got romance, gunfights and cowboys in chaps! What more could you ask for?

PS: I don't recall P&P having a prequel…too bad, so sad!