Two more seasons of Slow Horses are in the (not too distant) future
The series 4 finale episode might have only just streamed last week, yet Slow Horses, one of Apple TV+'s most popular shows, has just been renewed for its sixth series.
We've already waxed lyrical on why we love Slow Horses over here, but for the uninitiated, the series is based on the hit series of books by Mick Herron. It follows the misfit team at Slough House, the 'dumping ground department' of MI5 - in other words, where the spies who made career-ending mistakes wind up.
Unaffectionately nicknamed the 'slow horses', the team, which includes River Cartwright (Jack Lowden), Louisa Guy (Rosalind Eleazar), Roddy Ho (Christopher Chung) and others, is led by the notorious sloven, Jackson Lamb, brilliantly played by Academy Award winner Gary Oldman. Regularly going toe-to-toe with Jackson is MI5’s deputy director general, Diana Taverner, whose withering looks are portrayed excellently by Kristen Scott Thomas.
Slow Horses has been a runaway success - it's already scored a Best Drama nomination at the Emmys, and boasts an overall 98% critic score and 90% audience score across its four seasons.
Having been renewed for a fifth series back in January (just two months after series 3 streamed on Apple TV+), it's been reported that series 5 has already finished filming. Combine that with the fact that each series of Slow Horses has been released less than year after the previous one, we shouldn't have too long to wait for the next couple of instalments of Slough House antics.
Variety reported that season 6 will consist of six episodes, just as all other seasons have, and will "sees the misfits on the run as they find themselves embroiled in a high-stakes game of retaliation and revenge thanks to frenemy Taverner."
"Audiences around the world have fallen in love with the Slow Horses, and I’m delighted that Gary Oldman will be leading this star-studded cast on another acerbic and action-packed adventure," says Jay Hunt, creative director for Apple TV+ in Europe.
While we await the next (in what we hope will be a long line of) series of Slow Horses, you can stream series 1-4 on Apple TV+ now.
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