Apple gives For All Mankind another season and a Soviet spin-off, Star City

Great news for dads and dads at heart: For All Mankind is returning for another season. The alt-history series from Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert, and Ben Nedivi, which is being called a “hit” by Apple TV+’s publicity department, will blast off for another season of soviet espionage, interplanetary union drives, and some of the best old-age makeup Apple can buy. The renewal comes roughly four months after the show’s fourth season wrapped, so it doesn’t seem like Apple was too eager to give it another shot. Or, we would assume, if the streamer wasn’t going deeper into For All Mankind’s timeline.

Apple also announced a new spin-off series called Star City, which will focus on “the other side of the space race.” Billed as a “paranoid thriller,” Star City will go back in the timeline to the Soviet victory in the space race. It sounds like the show will run a similar course as For All Mankind but from the Soviet perspective. In a statement, Wolpert and Nedivi said, “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.” Sounds good to us because For All Mankind rules, and if Apple wants to keep funding this ludicrous, thrilling, and deeply sincere show, then we’re happy to keep giving them our eyeballs. Not really, but as viewers. They have our attention.

(We just want to reiterate that we don’t want Apple to take our eyeballs because we need those to watch For All Mankind.)

No release date was given for either show. Last season premiered in November 2023, but the one prior debuted in June, and before that, February. Apple also failed to specify whether the show was written, in active production, or literally just starting work this week. That said, it might be some time before we actually see either show. Until then, we’ll keep watching the skis, uh, skies.