Apple’s Hit Spy Thriller ‘Slow Horses’ Lands Season 7 Renewal

One of Apple TV’s most successful original series, Slow Horses, continues to move forward at full steam in its production. The series is set to release its fifth season in September, and will be an adaptation of the 2018 Slough House series book titled London Rules. While the series and the Slough House novels that it is based on may center around a team of agents whose future is increasingly uncertain with each passing day, Slow Horses’ future has never been in question. Every time a new season premieres on Apple TV+, the subsequent season is already in production.

Now, it has been confirmed by Deadline that Slow Horses has been renewed for Season 7. It will likely release sometime in 2027, given that one season has been released every year (with the first two seasons released in 2022) without delay. One of the fun parts of watching a new season of Slow Horses on Apple TV+ is the fact that after every finale, a special teaser trailer for the next season is already ready to go to get fans excited about the upcoming installment. However, given that the show is an adaptation of a book series, Season 7 could very well be its last.

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The Slough House novels, written by Mick Herron, have achieved their own measure of success, with eight books currently in the series, the latest being Bad Actors, published in 2022. Up to this point, Slow Horses has adapted one book per season, and Season 5, set to premiere later this year, will adapt the fifth book in the series. However, according to the report from Deadline, Season 6 of Slow Horses (which has recently completed filming) will adapt the next two books in the series, Joe Country (2019) and Slough House (2021), meaning that the seventh season will adapt the (as of now) final book, leaving no more source material for future installments.

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Slow Horses Season 4 was perhaps the darkest and most intense entry in the series to date, adapting the novel Spook Street and introducing a new antagonist in the form of Frank Harkness (Hugo Weaving), an ex-CIA operative who ends up being responsible for the death of one of the Slow Horses. The team’s conflict with Harkness is left open-ended by the time Season 4 ends, but fans can expect Waving’s Harkness to return in future seasons.

Jay Hunt, creative director, Europe, Apple TV+, would release a statement saying: “Slow Horses has won fans all over the world with its unique mix of self-deprecating British humor and high-octane action, and I’m delighted viewers will have another season to enjoy Gary’s magnificent performance as Jackson Lamb alongside the Slow Horses’ slightly inept spycraft.” Oldman as Lamb has long been the highlight of the Apple series, as his knack for nihilistic humor and deadpan line delivery has elevated the show time and again.

While the newly announced Season 7 may seem like the end for Slow Horses, there are still other books written by Herron that could be used for future installments, or even a new series altogether. One work that hasn’t been adapted is Standing By The Wall, a collection of short stories featuring the main cast of the Slough House novels. Another is The Secret Hours, an espionage novel set in the same world as the rest of Herron’s books. Given the show’s popularity, it’s unlikely that Slow Horses will go away after Season 7, especially since Herron could still write another novel.

Source: Deadline