The iPhone maker and streamer has handed out a fifth season renewal for Ron Moore's For All Mankind and a straight-to-series order for Star City, a spinoff following the Soviet space race.
As with the flagship series, Moore, Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi co-created Star City with the latter duo set to showrun both programs for producer Sony Pictures Television.
... The show 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," per the official logline.
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Since launching as part of Apple's initial programs in late 2019, For All Mankind has become one of the streamer's critical darlings. The drama currently has an impressive 93 percent among critics and 82 percent score with viewers on Rotten Tomatoes. (Apple does not release traditional viewership data; how many people watch its films and TV series is largely a mystery.)
