Orphan Black co-creator Graeme Manson has shared new details of the upcoming fourth season of the show - almost without giving anything away at all.

The writer took part in a very spoiler-free panel at New York PaleyFest on Sunday (October 18), where he shared that, when it comes to Orphan Black, it's all about the journey.

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Appearing alongside the show's stars Tatiana Maslany, Jordan Gavaris, Maria Doyle Kennedy and Kristian Bruun, Manson shared that he has an idea of how the show will end.

"We've kind of always had an end point," he said. "Like an end to the mystery."

But that doesn't stop them from continuously working on the story as the writing develops to see where it could lead - like introducing Ari Millen's character as a whole new series of clones in the second season.

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"It's nice when that kind of thing can happen," Manson added. "When you pull from your cast to make a big twist."

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And it's not just the fans who are kept in the dark about these twists, as even the cast admit they often don't know what is going to happen from one episode to the next.

"It's really being hashed out from script to script," shared Bruun, who plays Donnie, the husband of one of the clones, but that just makes being on the show more exciting.

"When we get to watch the episodes for the first time is when we read that script," he said.

Orphan Black was renewed for a fourth season earlier this year.

The series is expected to return on BBC America in the US in 2016. BBC Three airs the show in the UK - if you can stay up late enough to watch it.

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Megan Davies is a freelance sub-editor and news writer at Digital Spy, and is a lover of good TV, good coffee and any story with a solid twist.