The future of For All Mankind is bright at Apple TV+. It has been officially announced that the series has been renewed for a fifth season at the streaming platform, and better yet, it will be joined by a spinoff series.

The spinoff series, titled Star City, will focus on the Russian space program. Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi, who created For All Mankind with Ronald D. Moore, are serving as co-showrunners for Star City. The three also created the new spinoff, and they are executive producing with Maril Davis of Tall Ship Productions. The showrunners teased the direction the spinoff will take in a statement confirming its development.

"Our fascination with the Soviet space program has grown with every season of For All Mankind,” the statement noted. “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.”

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

The official synopsis of the spinoff reads, "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.

For All Mankind Continues Its Run After Debuting in 2019

For All Mankind first launched on Apple TV+ in 2019. The series, which imagines an alternate history where the global space race never ended after the Soviet Union beat the U.S. to the moon, dropped its respective second and third seasons in 2021 and 2022. Season 4 premiered in November 2023 before wrapping up in January, leaving the show on the bubble over the past few months.

The first four seasons of For All Mankind are streaming on Apple TV+.

Source: Apple