Gary Oldman and co will be back for a season 6 of Slow Horses on Apple TV+ it’s been confirmed. More details here.
Slow Horses, adapted from the novels by Mick Herron, was seemingly destined for great things from the start. Solid source material, some of Britain’s best screenwriters including Will Smith (not that one, the Will Smith from The Thick of It and Veep) and Morwenna Banks, all centered around a powerhouse performance by Gary Oldman at its centre.
The first four seasons received near universal critical acclaim and now, according to Deadline, the show will be back for a sixth series, the news coming shortly after the end of season 4. Season 5 has already been filmed and will be released next year.
The ensemble cast also includes Jack Lowden, Saskia Reeves, Aimee Ffion-Edwards, Rosalind Eleazar, Christopher Chung and Jonathan Pryce.
The sixth season will be adapted from two of Herron’s novels, Joe Country and Slough House.
The synopsis reads as follows:
In Season 6, the spies head out on the run as Diana Taverner (Kristin Scott Thomas) embroils them all in a fatally high-stakes game of retaliation and revenge.
Before that though, series 5, based on Herron’s fifth novel London Rules, will be released next year, read the synopsis below:
In season 5 of Slow Horses, everyone is suspicious when resident tech nerd Roddy Ho has a glamorous new girlfriend, but when a series of increasingly bizarre events occur across the city, it falls to the Slow Horses to work out how everything is connected.
In other Mick Herron news, one of his other novels, Down Cemetary Road, is also being adapted into a television series for Apple TV+. It wil star Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson, with Slow Horses writer Morwenna Banks showrunning.
You can stream the first four series of Slow Horses on Apple TV+.