Apple TV has renewed the alternate-history space drama For All Mankind for a sixth and final season, ahead of its fifth season premiere on March 27. The series, starring Joel Kinnaman as astronaut Ed Baldwin, will conclude next year. Co-creators Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi expressed thrill at finishing the story as envisioned.
Apple TV confirmed the renewal of For All Mankind for its sixth and final season, as TVLine has learned. The announcement arrives just before the fifth season debuts on March 27, setting the stage for the show's conclusion in 2027. Debuting in 2019 as one of Apple TV's first originals, the series reimagines the space race with the Soviet Union landing the first human on the moon. Joel Kinnaman leads as Ed Baldwin, joined by Cynthy Wu as his adopted daughter Kelly, Toby Kebbell, Edi Gathegi, Coral Peña, and Wrenn Schmidt. Season 5 adds Mireille Enos and Costa Ronin to the cast and shifts to the 2010s, years after the Goldilocks asteroid heist. Happy Valley has evolved into a bustling Mars colony with thousands of residents, amid rising tensions between Martian settlers and Earth nations over law and order. > Getting to explore the 'For All Mankind' universe over six seasons has been an amazing privilege, and we're thrilled to have the opportunity to finish the story the way we've always hoped, Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi, co-creators with Ronald D. Moore, said in a statement. We're incredibly proud of what this series has become, and grateful to Apple TV and Sony Pictures Television for helping us see it through to its final chapter. Apple TV head of programming Matt Cherniss praised the show as an innovative epic sci-fi series. > From being one of the first Apple Originals to launch on Apple TV in 2019, 'For All Mankind' has remained an innovative, epic sci-fi series that has enthralled fans season after season, Cherniss said. The renewal positions For All Mankind alongside Slow Horses as one of Apple TV's longest-running originals. Separately, the spin-off Star City, exploring the Russian perspective, premieres May 29 with its first two episodes.
