Apple TV is looking to the heavens one last time.
The streamer has renewed its drama series For All Mankind for a sixth and final season. The pickup comes three days before season five of the show premieres on March 27; season six will debut in 2027.
With the renewal, For All Mankind (produced by Sony Pictures Television) will become one of the longest-running series in Apple TV’s six-plus years of offering original programming. Among shows aimed at adults, only Slow Horses — which has been renewed through a seventh season — will have gone longer.
“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,” said showrunners Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi, who also co-created the series with Ronald D. Moore. “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.”
Added Apple TV head of programming Matt Cherniss, “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. As one of Apple TV’s most enduring and celebrated series, it has delivered time and again because of the extraordinary artistry of visionary storytellers Ron, Matt, and Ben, along with our partners at Sony, and we can’t wait for people to experience how this story comes to its exhilarating conclusion when the final season debuts next year.”
Season five of the series, set in an alternate history where the Soviet Union was the first to land people on the moon, is set in the 2010s and will delve into the friction between residents of a colonized Mars and those who remain on Earth. Joel Kinnaman, Toby Kebbell, Edi Gathegi, Cynthy Wu, Coral Peña and Wrenn Schmidt reprise their roles alongside new series regulars Mireille Enos, Costa Ronin, Sean Kaufman, Ruby Cruz and Ines Asserson.
Wolpert and Nedivi serve as showrunners and executive produce with Moore and Maril Davis of Tall Ship Productions, Kira Snyder, David Weddle, Bradley Thompson and Seth Edelstein.
