Apple TV+ has confirmed that its popular series, Slow Horses, is set to return for a sixth series. The green light has been given to the darkly comedic spy drama following the conclusion of its fourth season and before the fifth series has even hit screens.
“Slow Horses is a darkly humorous espionage drama that follows a dysfunctional team of British intelligence agents who serve in a dumping ground department of MI5 known un-affectionately as Slough House,” reads the show’s synopsis.
“Oldman stars as Jackson Lamb, the brilliant but cantankerous leader of the spies, who end up in Slough House due to their career-ending mistakes as they frequently find themselves blundering around the smoke and mirrors of the espionage world.”
In the upcoming sixth series, viewers can anticipate seeing “see the Slow Horses on the run as Diana Taverner embroils them all in a fatally high-stakes game of retaliation and revenge”, reports the Manchester Evening News.
Jay Hunt, creative director for Apple TV+ in Europe, expressed his excitement in a statement: “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.”
The Emmy and BAFTA Award-winning series features Academy Award winner Gary Oldman, who is set to return for the new series.
The show’s impressive ensemble includes the likes of Kristin Scott Thomas, Jack Lowden, Saskia Reeves, Rosalind Eleazar, Christopher Chung, Samuel West, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Ruth Bradley, Tom Brooke, Joanna Scanlan and Jonathan Pryce. It remains under wraps whether the entire cast will return for the sixth instalment.
In a departure from previous seasons which were crafted by head writer Will Smith, the upcoming series will see Gaby Chiappe take on scripting duties as co-executive producer, while Adam Randall, who helmed the fourth season, circles back to direct season six.
The show continues to make a splash with viewership as all four seasons have snagged a Certified Fresh rating, and two seasons have secured the enviable 100% perfect critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes, garnering widespread kudos worldwide not just from audiences but also critics.
Fans have lauded it as “undoubtedly the best spy series on television,” and a “truly epic espionage thriller”.
Praised for being “darkly funny and tighter than the buttons on Lamb’s sauce-stained shirt,” the production boasts “a fully realised world, superb script, a stellar cast all at the top of their game and a lot of great action,” with consensus saying it “gets better and better.”
With filming already completed, the fifth season of the acclaimed series is anticipated to drop next year.