One of the best shows currently on air is returning with a new season in a matter of months.
After several seasons as a sleeper hit, the word of mouth truly caught on last year when Apple TV Plus brought Slow Horses back for a fourth season – and we now know when season five is coming.
In a TV landscape when regular release dates are a pipe dream, the Gary Oldman-led spy drama is one of the dramas we can regularly rely on.
The first two episodes of season five will premiere on September 24, kicking off a season based on Mick Herron’s London Rules novel.
Our group of loser spies will reconvene in Slough House: the rubbishy government building where operatives are put out to paperwork pasture after some sort of fiasco in the job.
Alongside the regular cast including Kristin Scott Thomas, Jack Lowden (a soon-to-be father!) and Rosalind Eleazar, the fifth season welcomes a guest star in Ted Lasso’s salt and pepper coach Nick Mohammed as a politico.
The upcoming season is set to centre around Roddy (Christopher Chung) – who’s sporting an interesting new man bun in the first look pictures – and his new girlfriend, who actually isn’t a catfish this time.
The tech whizz having some romantic success leaves everyone in Slough House asking questions – just as a series of bizarre events occur across the capitol city. As ever, its the Slow Horses who are on hand to set the world to rights.
‘After all, Lamb knows that in the world of espionage, the London Rules – cover your back – always apply,’ the official synopsis reads.
With six episodes soon to be with us, we already know this season won’t be the end of the road for Slough House. The show has already been renewed for a sixth season, which the production team are working away at even as the fifth hasn’t aired yet.
Oldman previously told Metro.co.uk he is having ‘enormous fun’ playing a human as objectionable as the slobby and disillusioned Jackson Lamb, with his penchant for farting, daytime drinking and savage put-downs.
‘If you’re playing mean and ugly and you have bad writing, then it’s difficult. Offensive mean and ugly with [writer] Will Smith and Mick Herron is a lot easier,’ he told Metro.co.uk and other press in a roundtable.
‘It’s enormous fun, I really do have to say. I think people – everyone’s had that boss, or you’ve met those people along the way where I think secretly you would just love to be brutally honest. And I think that’s what we find amusing and funny about Lamb. There’s something that we maybe recognize or go, “Oh, I wish I could talk to someone like that. There’s no filter!”
‘But it’s fun, to answer your question, when you’ve got good writing.’
Slow Horses season 5 debuts on September 24 on Apple TV Plus.
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