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Although it’s gone from six to effectively five seasons (given that the Netflix-produced fourth season has 20 episodes), Manifest creator Jeff Rake has confirmed that the series will still follow its original trajectory.

Talking to Entertainment Weekly, Rake noted;

“It would have been stressful and would not have been ideal, but I would have figured out my way through it. Given that I’ve had to go through the thought exercise this summer of how to get to the original endgame in two episodes, six episodes, or nine episodes, I feel like it’s an embarrassment of riches to have 20 episodes to tell the rest of the story. So yes, I have always talked about three more seasons — and part of that was chronological because it’s always been my goal to get to the series finale in real-time in accordance with the five and a half years that the passengers had back — and that might have to adjust somewhat depending on how these episodes roll out. The good news is I am absolutely confident that 20 episodes give me enough time to tell the entirety of the story as I always intended to. When I’ve talked in the past about having a roadmap all the way to the end of the series, that didn’t mean that I had a roadmap for literally every single episode. I have a roadmap with a series of twists and turns and flags in the sand that we would ultimately hit in order to tell the core stories within our mythology and within our relationship drama. So it will not be a particularly difficult exercise to overlay that same exact roadmap onto 20 episodes. It will be quite organic.”

There’s no indication yet when the new episodes of Manifest will go into production, but chances are the first part of season 4 should hit screens next year.