First Images From 'Orphan Black: Echoes' Show Krysten Ritter and Keeley Hawes

BBC America's critically acclaimed science fiction series Orphan Black spun a fascinating multiyear conspiracy around the story of a young woman who discovered she was part of a group of clones, ultimately airing for five seasons and winning an Emmy for star Tatiana Maslany's portrayal of a half-dozen characters on any given day.

Though the show technically concluded its run in 2017, its world has lived on since then in everything from comic books and audio dramas to a Japanese remake and even a board game. Now its first official spinoff is set to arrive next year, and Orphan Black: Echoes aims to delve even deeper into exploring the scientific manipulation of human existence.

Though the show will not be a direct sequel, it will exist in the same universe as its parent program. Set some undisclosed number of years in the near future, Echoes will star Krysten Ritter as Lucy, a character we still know relatively few details about but who is described as having "an unimaginable origin story" and as someone "trying to find her place in the world." Given that the role has tempted Ritter back to television for the first time since Jessica Jones ended in 2019, we're all assuming she has to be playing the series' primary clone.