According to an exclusive from Variety, Apple TV+ has renewed ‘Slow Horses’ for a fifth season. ‘Slow Horses’ just wrapped up its third season in December 2023.
‘Slow Horses’ is adapted from “Real Tigers,” the third novel in the CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning Mick Herron spy series ‘Slough House’.
The cast of the most recent season of ‘Slow Horses’ included Gary Oldman, Jack Lowden, Saskia Reeves Rosalind Eleazar, Christopher Chung, and Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù.
The ensemble cast also included Academy Award nominee Kristin Scott Thomas, BAFTA Scotland Award winner Jack Lowden, Saskia Reeves, Rosalind Eleazar, Christopher Chung, Freddie Fox, Chris Reilly, Samuel West, Sophie Okonedo, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Kadiff Kirwan and Academy Award nominee Jonathan Pryce. Ṣọpẹ Dìrísù joins the season three cast as Sean Donovan, the former head of security at the British embassy in Istanbul, along with Katherine Waterston who plays Alison Dunn, an MI5 agent who uncovers a dark secret at the heart of the agency.
“Slow Horses” is produced for Apple TV+ by See-Saw Films and adapted for television by Will Smith (“Veep”). Jamie Laurenson, Hakan Kousetta, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Douglas Urbanski, Gail Mutrux, Will Smith, Jane Robertson and Graham Yost serve as executive producers on the series. Season three is directed by Saul Metzstein.
