For All Mankind is by far my favourite sci-fi show: over its four seasons so far it's delivered cold war spy drama, audacious space heists and gunfights on the Moon. So I'm beyond excited at the news that not only has a fifth season been greenlit, but that there's also a new companion series, Star City, following the Soviet space race.
If you're not already hooked on For All Mankind it's a drama set in an alternative history where Russia, not the US, won the space race. It begins with test pilots in the mid-20th Century and by the end of season 4 is showing us entire colonies living on Mars. And while it's a sci-fi show with some spectacular visuals, at heart it's a beautifully written drama about ordinary people doing extraordinary things that's often just on the right side of utter ridiculousness.
