‘Slow Horses’ renewed for sixth season before the fifth has even aired

The fifth season was confirmed in January and has already been filmed

Slow Horses has been renewed by Apple TV+ for a sixth season, even before the fifth has aired. 

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The fourth season concluded last week, ending a run of episodes which has roundly praised as the “best season yet”, sitting on an imperious 100% score on reviews aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.

The show is based on the Slough House series of novels by Mick Herron and revolves around a group of British intelligence officers who have been demoted after having made significant mistakes. Gary Oldman stars as Jackson Lamb, the head of Slough House, alongside Kristin Scott Thomas, Jack Lowden and Jonathan Pryce.

“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,” Jay Hunt, creative director of Europe for Apple TV+, said in a statement today (October 15).

The fifth season was greenlit in January and the episodes have already been filmed.

The next run will be based on Herron’s fifth book in the series, London Rules. “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,” a synopsis reads.

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“After all, Jackson Lamb knows that in the world of espionage, ‘London Rules’ should always apply.”

Three further novels have also been written, with another due in 2025.

No release date has been confirmed by Apple TV+ as of yet, but seasons have been rolled out in short order so far. Seasons one and two both landed in 2022, with three coming in late 2023 and four just now concluding.

Based on this pacing, fans can expect season five to land in 2025, most likely between September and December.

In recent news, Oldman called out the royal family for not honouring his services to acting. “I don’t know why. You should ask them. No nod from the royals, but there we are,” he told BBC. “Maybe it’s in my future.”