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Title: Apple renews For All Mankind and announces a spinoff series set in the
Soviet Union

Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 17:39:50 +0000
Link: https://www.engadget.com/apple-renews-for-all...

For All Mankind is coming back for a fifth season of space-based alt-history
hijinks on Apple TV+. This is unsurprising news, given the near-universal
critical acclaim heaped on season four. However, the company also surprise-
announced a spinoff series called Star City that will follow the Russian
space program.

Original series creators Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi are all
onboard for Star City, though thereΓÇÖs no cast yet. The plot synopsis calls
it a ΓÇ£robust expansionΓÇ¥ of the universe and refers to it as a
ΓÇ£propulsive, paranoid thriller.ΓÇ¥ It also looks to be taking viewers back
to the events of season one of For All Mankind, chronicling the Russian moon
landing that started the story.

ΓÇ£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,ΓÇ¥ Apple wrote in a press release.

The company didnΓÇÖt say if the show would rely on frequent time jumps, like
its forebear. To that end, Apple hasn't released any casting information for
season five of For All Mankind. Given the showΓÇÖs propensity toward
expansive time skips, itΓÇÖs highly possible series regulars like Joel
Kinnaman and Krys Marshall are on their way out. After all, their characters
were really getting up there in age and stretching credulity in season four.

Apple TV+

This is some seriously good news for sci-fi fans, but still doesnΓÇÖt take
away the brutal sting of Star Trek: Lower Decks getting canceled. Paramount
should probably just sell Star Trek to Apple already, since the latter
actually seems to care about science fiction.

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