Apple Renews ‘For All Mankind’ and Announces New Spinoff Series ‘Star City’
Apple Newsroom:
Following its critically acclaimed fourth season, which has been
praised as “the best-written show on all of television” and
“superior sci-fi,” Apple TV+’s hit, award-winning space drama
series “For All Mankind” has landed a renewal for season five.
Additionally, Apple TV+ and “For All Mankind” creators Ronald D.
Moore, Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi will expand the “For All
Mankind” universe with a brand-new spinoff series, “Star City,”
which will be showrun by Nedivi and Wolpert. […]
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.
I can’t think of another show quite like For All Mankind. For one thing, there just aren’t many “alternate history” shows or movies, even though I tend to think it’s a great genre — a way to ground fantastic inventions with familiar elements. But the biggest distinction is the way For All Mankind has decade-long gaps in the timeline between seasons. We’ve seen some characters age 30+ years over just four seasons.
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Apple Newsroom:
Following its critically acclaimed fourth season, which has been
praised as “the best-written show on all of television” and
“superior sci-fi,” Apple TV+’s hit, award-winning space drama
series “For All Mankind” has landed a renewal for season five.
Additionally, Apple TV+ and “For All Mankind” creators Ronald D.
Moore, Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi will expand the “For All
Mankind” universe with a brand-new spinoff series, “Star City,”
which will be showrun by Nedivi and Wolpert. […]
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.
I can’t think of another show quite like For All Mankind. For one thing, there just aren’t many “alternate history” shows or movies, even though I tend to think it’s a great genre — a way to ground fantastic inventions with familiar elements. But the biggest distinction is the way For All Mankind has decade-long gaps in the timeline between seasons. We’ve seen some characters age 30+ years over just four seasons.