For All Mankind Renewed for Season 5 — Plus, Star City Spinoff Ordered at Apple
Apple TV+ has taken one giant leap with its For All Mankind universe.
In addition to renewing its alt-history space drama for Season 5 on Wednesday, the streamer has also ordered a spinoff titled Star City, TVLine has learned.
Described as a “propulsive paranoid thriller,” Star City will take viewers back to a key moment in For All Mankind‘s retelling of the space race: when the Soviet Union became the first nation to put a man on the moon. “But this time,” the logline reads, “we explore the story from behind the Iron Curtain, showing the lives of the cosmonauts, the engineers and the intelligence officers embedded among them in the Soviet space program, and the risks they all took to propel humanity forward.”
Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi, all of whom co-created For All Mankind, are behind Star City, with Wolpert and Nedivi serving as showrunners on the offshoot.
“Our fascination with the Soviet space program has grown with every season of For All Mankind,” Wolpert and Nedivi said in a statement. “The more we learned about this secret city in the forests outside Moscow where the Soviet cosmonauts and engineers worked and lived, the more we wanted to tell this story of the other side of the space race. We could not be more excited to continue building out the alternate history universe of For All Mankind with our partners at Apple and Sony.”
For All Mankind‘s Season 4 finale — which dropped on Jan. 12 — concluded with a nine-year time jump from 2003 to 2012, which revealed that asteroid Goldilocks is now home to the Kuznetsov Station. The episode was less clear about which characters had made it to that future. Earlier in the hour, a riot broke out on Mars between the Helios workers and security, leading Dani to get shot, but she miraculously survived and made it back down to Earth to reunite with her family. Meanwhile, Margo was arrested by the FBI for sabotaging NASA’s mission, and Ed’s declining health and his role in the riot left his future in question.
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Addressing whether the trio of original series stars would return for another season, Nedivi obliquely told TVLine, “We’re always also thinking about [how] for this show to work, you have to evolve the cast. You have to say goodbye to some of the characters and actors we love the most, and introduce new characters as we go.
“If we feel there’s no more story to tell with [a] character, and by story, I mean good, meaty story, then that’s usually the sign that it’s time to move on,” Nedivi added.
For All Mankind‘s renewal and spinoff order come just days after Apple TV+’s Monarch: Legacy of Monsters received similarly good, universe-expanding news. How are you feeling about these For All Mankind announcements? Hit the comments!
