Summary
- For All Mankind
has been renewed for season 5. - Apple TV+ is also developing a spinoff,
Star City
, which explores the space race from the Soviet perspective. - This show marks an important step in Apple TV+’s venture into franchising with its first homegrown television franchise.
For All Mankind season 5 and a new spinoff have now been confirmed. The Apple TV+ show, which premiered in 2019, is an alternate history science fiction drama that documents how the Space Race would have played out if the Soviet Union had beaten the United States to the moon. Every season features major time jumps that span decades, with season 4 ending in 2012, though there has been a relatively consistent cast that includes Joel Kinnaman, Shantel VanSanten, Jodi Balfour, Wrenn Schmidt, Krys Marshall, Casey W. Johnson, and Coral Peña alongside a revolving door of supporting players.
Apple TV+ has now announced that For All Mankind season 5 has officially been renewed. The show’s creators Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert, and Ben Nedivi are also collaborating on developing a spinoff titled Star City, which is set to be showrun by Wolpert and Nedivi. The spinoff will reset the clock, returning to the moment in the show’s timeline when the Soviet Union put an astronaut on the moon and tracking the path of the show’s alternate Space Race history from the perspective of those behind the Iron Curtain. Read the full official synopsis below:
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 Is A Groundbreaking Show For Apple TV+
For All Mankind Season 5 And Its Spinoff Make Streaming History
It’s not unusual for a popular streaming show to get a spinoff in the form of a movie or another show. In fact, Netflix’s The Witcher has gotten both in the form of the animated prequel movie Nightmare of the Wolf and the live-action prequel series Blood Origin. Interconnected universes are hot commodities, with other streamers pursuing their own versions of the phenomenon including Paramount+’s Star Trek continuations and Prime Video’s The Boys franchise. However, this For All Mankind news presents a first for Apple TV+.
The Boys
, which is based on the comic book series of the same name, has been spun off into the animated
Diabolical
, the live-action
Gen V
, and the upcoming
The Boys: Mexico
.
The streaming service is no stranger to developing shows attached to well-known IP. Their original programming has already included literary adaptations like The Mosquito Coast, reboots like Amazing Stories, and franchise spinoffs like Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, which is part of the Legendary Monsterverse and already has another spinoff in development. However, by adding a spinoff in addition to a new season exploring the fallout of the For All Mankind season 4 ending, Apple is launching its first homegrown television franchise.
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It makes sense that For All Mankind would lead the charge, as it is one of the oldest and longest-running shows on the streamer. It has long been a flagship program for the brand, so becoming the center of their first major experiment in franchising seems like a natural next step. It remains to be seen if the spinoff comes to fruition and if it finds success, but if it does, it could lead to further spinoffs of some of the platform’s most popular original shows such as Severance, Ted Lasso, Mythic Quest, and The Morning Show.
Source: Apple TV+
For All Mankind
Imagine a world where the global space race never ended – For All Mankind is a thrilling “what if” take on history that explores what would have happened in the race to the moon between the Soviet Union and the United States, as well as the space programs and the race’s effects on the astronauts and their families in the aftermath. The Apple TV+ series hails from Ronald D. Moore and stars Joel Kinnaman as a NASA astronaut. For All Mankind also features historical astronauts like Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong.
- Cast
- Michaela Conlin , jodi balfour , Coral Peña , Colm Feore , Sarah Jones , Wrenn Schmidt , Casey W. Johnson , Cynthy Wu , Shantel VanSanten , Michael Harney , Krys Marshall , Joel Kinnaman , Sonya Walger , Michael Dorman
- Release Date
- November 1, 2019
- Seasons
- 4
- Writers
- Ronald D. Moore , Matt Wolpert , Ben Nedivi
- Showrunner
- Ronald D. Moore
- Creator(s)
- Ronald D. Moore , Matt Wolpert , Ben Nedivi