‘New Amsterdam’s Tyler Labine is heading to a new planet as he lands a recurring role on the 5th Season of Apple TV’s alt-history drama ‘For All Mankind‘.
From creators Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi, the most recent fourth season rocketed the action into 2003 with an eight-year time jump since season three, Happy Valley has rapidly expanded its footprint on Mars by turning former foes into partners. The season’s focus was capturing and mining extremely valuable, mineral-rich asteroids that could change the future of both Earth and Mars. However, simmering tensions between the residents of the now-sprawling international base threatened to undo everything they were working towards.
Tyler Labine has landed the role of Fred, a Mars Peacekeeper. He is probably best known for his work as “Iggy Frome”, the head of psychiatry in the NBC medical drama ‘New Amsterdam’, along with starring in the film ‘Tucker & Dale vs Evil’, and the TV show ‘Reaper’.
Labine joins a couple of other previously announced new faces this season. Mireille Enos, who previously worked with lead Joel Kinnaman on ‘Hanna’ and ‘The Killing’, takes the role of “Celia Boyd”, another member of the Peacekeeper Security Force on Mars; And Costa Ronin (The Americans, Homeland), who plays Lenya, a Soviet politician and former cosmonaut.
Alongside Kinnaman, the returning cast includes Wrenn Schmidt, Krys Marshall, Edi Gathegi, Cynthy Wu, Coral Peña, Toby Kebbell, Tyner Rushing, Daniel Stern and Svetlana Efremova.
Season 4 ended (SPOILERS) with a nine-year time jump to 2012, with the “Goldilocks” asteroid in orbit around Mars and home to Kuznetsov Station. Whilst this season might see a reunion of Kinnaman, who has played “Ed Baldwin” since season one, and Enos on screen, this may very well be a final season for Kinnaman, given Ed was already in ill health and at an advanced age.
Since its global debut, “For All Mankind” has been widely acclaimed as “one of the best shows on television,” and season four holds a perfect 100% Certified Fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes. All four seasons can be found on Apple TV+. In addition to the main series, Apple announced back in April that they have also ordered ‘Star City’, a spin-off telling the alt-history story of the space program from behind the Iron Curtain.
“For All Mankind” is created by Emmy Award winner Moore, and Emmy nominees Wolpert and Nedivi. Wolpert and Nedivi serve as showrunners and executive produce alongside Moore and Davis of Tall Ship Productions, as well as David Weddle, Bradley Thompson, Seth Edelstein and Kira Snyder. “For All Mankind” is produced for Apple TV+ by Sony Pictures Television.
We don’t yet have premiere dates for ‘For All Mankind‘ Season 5 (or ‘Star City‘ Season 1), but both will air on Apple TV+. If you want to keep track of this or any other show, you can add them via our Never Miss system, and you’ll be notified when it gets a UK premiere date.
