Apple has granted an early renewal for season six Slow horsesthe spy comedy-drama starring Gary Oldman.
The news comes on the heels of the season four finale, released October 9 on Apple TV+, and the season five renewal announced earlier this year.
The upcoming fifth season, after the end of the fourth season, will see the Slow horses on the run while Diana Taverner (Kristin Scott Thomas) involves them all in a game fatally high risk of retaliation and revenge.
Slow horseson the basis of Slough House series of novels by Mick Herron, follows a dysfunctional team of British intelligence agents who serve in an MI5 department dump known unaffectionately as Slough House. The cast also includes Jack Lowden, Saskia Reeves, Rosalind Eleazar, Christopher Chung, Samuel West, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Ruth Bradley, Tom Brooke, Joanna Scanlan and Jonathan Pryce. Hugo Weaving joined the cast as an antagonist in the fourth season.
Oscar winner Oldman plays the irascible Jackson Lamb.
“Audiences around the world have fallen in love with Slow horsesand I'm delighted that Gary Oldman will lead this star-studded cast on another rugged, action-packed adventure,” Jay Hunt, European creative director for Apple TV+, said in a statement on Tuesday.
Slow horses comes from producers See-Saw Films and is produced by Jamie Laurenson, Hakan Kousetta, Julian Stevens, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Adam Randall, Gail Mutrux, Douglas Urbanski and Oldman.
Season six will be adapted for television by co-executive producer Gaby Chiappe, with Adam Randall returning to direct. The first four seasons of Slow horses streaming on Apple TV+; Apple doesn't release any viewership data for its series.
Slow horses earned its first Emmy nominations for the third season in 2024, where it entered the show nominated for nine awards, including Best Drama Series and Best Lead Actor for Oldman. Writer-showrunner Will Smith took home the award for Best Writing for a Drama Series.
Speaking ahead of the release of season four, Smith said The Hollywood journalist that the plan is to bring all nine books into the Slough House series on the screen.
“I think Mick is writing the ninth now, but we'll have to see what happens,” Smith said. “It depends on what Apple wants and the appetite, but I definitely have the kind of instinct to leave them wanting more rather than stay comfortable… But the world of entertainment is there for the taking. Mick wrote a fantastic book called The secret hourswhich is a sort of side book that tells Lamb's backstory and includes all the other existing characters. It's a wonderful book that I think there's definitely an opportunity to do in a shorter run [series] or a movie or something. I know Gary wants to keep going as long as he's asked. He loves playing the character.”