As per Deadline, the seventh season of the Apple TV+ series Slow Horses will go on floors in late September or early October. The news comes even as the fifth season of the Gary Oldman-starrer is set to release on September 24 and production on its sixth season has been wrapped. It also closely follows Oldman receiving Knighthood as part of King Charles' birthday honours.
An adaptation of Mick Herron's Slough House novel series, the drama charts the adventures of Oldman's Slough House boss Jackson Lamb and his espionage colleagues relegated from the MI5. As per the official plotline, in Slow Horses season 5, "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. After all, Lamb knows that in the world of espionage, the London Rules — cover your back — always apply.”
Kristin Scott Thomas, Saskia Reeves, Jack Lowden, Christopher Chung, Hugo Weaving, Rosalind Eleazar, Ruth Bradley, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Tom Brooke, and James Callis also star in Slow Horses season five. Nick Mohammed is also part of the cast in a guest role.
Will Smith adapted Herron's novel for the small screen, and he serves as an executive producer alongside Jamie Laurenson, Julian Stevens, Hakan Kousetta, Emile Sherman, Iain Canning, Gail Mutrux, Graham Yost, and Douglas Urbanski.
The series, directed by Saul Metzstein, is produced by See-Saw Films for Apple's streaming platform.