Coming as no surprise, Apple TV has renewed its alternate history series For All Mankind for a sixth season, and it will wrap up at that point. The renewal has been assumed for some time seeing as an entry for Season 6 showed up in Production Weekly back in November 2025 (which you heard first at CancelledSciFi.com). The fifth season is scheduled to premiere on Friday of this week, and the show has been one of Apple TV’s most-watched and most-acclaimed. It has not spent a lot of time in the Nielsen Streaming Rankings, but that is common for originals from this streamer, and the show has regularly placed in the Apple TV Top 10. The creators originally had a seven-season plan for the series, which is rather ambitious for a streaming original. Now it looks like that is getting adjusted to a six-year plan, but that is still a very good run for a streaming series, and it gives the crew the opportunity to wrap up the show’s storylines. You can read more at CancelledSciFi.com.
In yet another renewal announcement, Paramount+ has given the greenlight for a fourth season of its supernatural drama School Spirits. The third season of that show premiered in January, and while it has not made it into the Nielsen Streaming Rankings, the show has a secondary licensing deal with Netflix where seasons have an encore run on that service about eight months after they premiere on Paramount+, and it typically performs better there. This is an interesting new model as the collaboration across services gives an opportunity for shows to find a bigger audience and could help sustain them for longer runs. With the fourth season renewal, School Spirits has already outlasted most streaming originals which typically do not go beyond three years. And it could potentially continue longer if Netflix viewership remains strong. You can read more at CancelledSciFi.com.
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