Apple TV+ has renewed its hit sci-fi drama series For All Mankind for Season 5! On top of that, there’s also going to be a spinoff series that focuses on the Soviet space program!

The spinoff is titled Star City and it’s being developed by For All Mankind creators Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert, and Ben Nedivi. Nedivi and Wolpert will serve as showrunners.

The series “will return to the beginning of For All Mankind’s alternative timeline, in which the Soviets are the first to reach the moon.”

But the show will then “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.”

Wolpert and Nedivi shared in a statement: “Our fascination with the Soviet space program has grown with every season of For All Mankind. 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.”

They added: “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.”

Matt Cherniss, head of programming for Apple TV+ said: “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.”

He went on to say: “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.”

This is exciting! I love this show and it’s going to be great to see a whole new story being told, along with the continuation of For All Mankind.

For All Mankind explores what would have happened if the global space race had never ended. The series presents an aspirational world where NASA astronauts, engineers, and their families find themselves in the center of extraordinary events seen through the prism of an alternate history timeline — a world in which the USSR beats the US to the moon.

The last season was set eight years after the events of Season 3 and Happy Valley has rapidly expanded its footprint on Mars and former foes are now partners. As you might imagine, there are still simmering tensions between the residents of the international base and those tensions threaten to pull apart everything they are working towards.

I loved how the story for Season 4 played out and I can’t wait to see how this next chapter of the story plays out.

Source: Variety