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Renewed: For All Mankind, new spin-off Star City.

Upcoming spin-off Star City will dramatise the space race from behind the Iron Curtain.

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Apple TV+ has renewed space drama series For All Mankind for a fifth season.

Additionally  creators Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi will expand to a spinoff series, Star City, which will be show run by Nedivi and Wolpert.

“Our fascination with the Soviet space program has grown with every season of For All Mankind,” said executive producers Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi. “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.”

“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 skilfully developed by Ron, Matt and Ben,” said Matt Cherniss head of programming for Apple TV+. “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.”

Star City is described as 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.

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  1. For All Mankind has had some stumbles in plotting. Anyone who has seen it knows what I am referring to, but the show is fantastic none the less. I think I heard they originally plotted out a 7 season timeline.
    Hopefully Star City is also good. If anyone’s interested in the Soviet side of the space race, in 2005 there was a really good BBC docudrama Space Race, which focused mainly on the Soviet side.

  2. ‘For All Mankind’ is a must watch for me, like a follow up to ‘The Man in the High Tower’ but I do have a fondness for these type of sci-fi shows. If For All Mankind was to work as a multi season screenplay developing an alternative Earth universe was a logical step in the creative process, the USSR would still exist and the 20th Century political actors would be historically authentic as will the super power space race. Arguably, after season one the developments in space technology did seem a bit too advanced, realistically for this to happen the shows time jumps would have been moved much further forward into the late 21st century, a time when the USSR wouldn’t exist. and neither would the main character Edward Baldwin (Joel Kinnaman). This scenario also effects the Star City spin-off because in our Earth reality Star City is running out of customers, technology and money.

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