Apple TV+ is expanding the world of For All Mankind. The streaming service announced the critically acclaimed sci-fi drama has been renewed for season five. Plus, Apple TV+ has greenlit the spinoff series, Star City.
Star City comes from For All Mankind creators Ben Nedivi, Matt Wolpert, and Ronald D. Moore. Nedivi and Wolpert serve as showrunners on both series.
“Our fascination with the Soviet space program has grown with every season of For All Mankind,” stated executive producers Wolpert and Nedivi. “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 first four seasons were executive produced by Wolpert, Nedivi, Moore, and Maril Davis. Additional executive producers include David Weddle, Bradley Thompson, Seth Edelstein, and Kira Snyder. Nedivi, Wolpert, Moore, and Davis executive produce Star City.
“With each new season, For All Mankind continues to build out a fascinating world and capture global audiences through high-quality storytelling that has been so skillfully developed by Ron, Matt, and Ben,” said Matt Cherniss, head of programming for Apple TV+. “There is so much to explore, and we, along with our partners at Sony, can’t wait to dive into this next chapter of the engrossing For All Mankind universe.”
Star City and For All Mankind Descriptions, Courtesy of Apple TV+:
A robust expansion of the For All Mankind universe, Star City is a propulsive, paranoid thriller that takes us back to the key moment in the alt-history retelling of the space race — when the Soviet Union became the first nation to put a man on the moon. But this time, 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.
The latest season of For All Mankind rocketed the series into the new millennium. In the eight years since season three, Happy Valley has rapidly expanded its footprint on Mars by turning former foes into partners. It’s now 2003, and the focus of the space program has turned to the capture and mining of extremely valuable, mineral-rich asteroids that could change the future of both Earth and Mars. But simmering tensions between the residents of the now-sprawling international base threaten to undo everything they are working toward.
