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We officially have our first TV show renewal of 2024, and that honor goes to an Apple TV+ series!

Emma Thompson (Good Luck to You, Leo Grande) and Ruth Wilson (Luther) have been tapped to star in Down Cemetery Road, a thriller series for Apple TV+, based on the book from Gold Daggar Award-winning author Mick Herron.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Apple TV+ has ordered a series adaptation of Mick Herron’s “Down Cemetery Road” with Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson attached to star, Variety has learned. This is now the second adaptation of Herron’s books to get the series treatment at Apple, with the other being the popular spy series “Slow Horses” starring Gary Oldman.

A popular spy thriller with a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score has been renewed for a fifth season on Apple TV.

K.J. Yossman Gary Oldman’s band of MI5 misfits are set to return for another outing. “Slow Horses,” the hit Apple TV+ series based on Mick Herron’s spy series of the same name, has been renewed for a fifth season, Variety can confirm.

Apple TV+ is returning once again to Slow Horses, with a fifth season greenlit, the first major renewal of 2024.

Slow Horses returns for its third season in November.Based on the Slough House novels by Mick Herron, the Apple TV+ series stars Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb, the head of Slough House where MI5 service rejects are lumped with dull administrative tasks.Other cast members include Jack Lowden as MI5 agent River Cartwright and Kristin Scott Thomas as MI5 deputy director-general, Diana Taverner.A synopsis for the third season reads: “In season three, a romantic liaison in Istanbul threatens to expose a buried MI5 secret in London. When Jackson Lamb and his team of misfits are dragged into the fight, they find themselves caught in a conspiracy that threatens the future not just of Slough House but of MI5 itself.”The first two episodes premiere Wednesday November 29 on Apple TV+, with the remaining four episodes set to be released weekly from this date.In the US, episodes usually arrive on Apple TV+ around 12am ET, which translates to 5am GMT in the UK.A trailer for the third season was released earlier this month – check it out above.Slow Horses was renewed for a third and fourth season in June last year.

Slow Horses will be released.Slow Hands, the adaptation of Mick Herron’s Slough House novels, will see Gary Oldman reprise his role as the lovably grumpy spy Jackson Lamb for season three. Apple has previously confirmed that a fourth series has also been commissioned; its arrival date is unknown.In a press release, Apple stated that “in Season three, a romantic liaison in Istanbul threatens to expose a buried MI5 secret in London.

Gary Oldman and the Slow Horses gang return with the first two episodes of Season 3 on December 1 with new episodes to be released individually each Friday through December 29 via Apple.

The iconic BAFTA Television Awards took place on Sunday, May 14, in London.

Sarah Polley and Miriam Toewswon the USC Libraries’ Scripter Award on Saturday for their adaptation of Orion/MGM’s Women Talking, based on Toews’ novel.

FILM FINALISTS Guillermo del Toro, Patrick McHale, and Matthew Robbins for “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” based on the fairy tale “The Adventures of Pinocchio” by Carlo Collodi Kazuo Ishiguro for “Living” based on the novella “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” by Leo Tolstoy Rebecca Lenkiewicz for “She Said” based on the nonfiction book “She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement” by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey Screenwriter Sarah Polley and novelist Miriam Toews for “Women Talking” *WINNERWITHDRAWN NOMINATION: Peter Craig, Ehren Kruger, Justin Marks, Christopher McQuarrie, and Eric Warren for “Top Gun: Maverick,” based on characters from the 1983 “California” magazine article “Top Guns” by Ehud Yonay     TELEVISION FINALISTS Peter Morgan, for the episode “Couple 31,” from “The Crown,” based on his stage play “The Audience” Taffy Brodesser-Akner for the episode “The Liver,” from “Fleishman Is in Trouble,” based on her book of the same name Will Smith for the episode “Failure’s Contagious,” from “Slow Horses,” based on the novel by Mick Herron *WINNERJ. T.

EXCLUSIVE: Gary Oldman has found “great joy” in playing the Falstaffian, flatulent-sharing, British espionage operative Jackson Lamb in Apple TV+’s Slow Horses, which has just launched season two. Meanwhile, the Harry Potter star confirmed he will play Harry Truman in one scene in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer.

In today’s episode of Bingeworthy, our TV and streaming podcast host Mike DeAngelo gets pulled back into Apple TV+’s London-based spy series, “Slow Horses.” Based on the Mick Herron novel of the same name, the show follows Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman), the slovenly, irascible, insubordinate leader of Slough House —a destination for all of British Intelligence’s misfits and career f*ck-ups. In the second season, which premiered its first two episodes last week on Apple TV+, the derogatorily dubbed “Slow Horses” stumble into another far-reaching case when a former colleague of Jackson Lamb’s is found dead on a bus.

Katie Reul editor Apple TV+ revealed the official trailer today for Season 2 of “Slow Horses,” the Gary Oldman thriller series that follows a team of British intelligence agents. The second season premieres globally on the streaming service Dec. 2 with the first two episodes, followed by one new episode each week after that for the duration of the six-episode season. And if there’s any confirmation of what fans can anticipate from Season 2, it’s that “more people are going to die,” according to a voice-over in the trailer from returning star Jack Lowden. In the new season of “Slow Horses” (which is adapted from Mick Herron’s sequel novel “Dead Lion”), when exposure of previously-concealed Cold War secrets creates tension between Russia and Britain, the spies are again tasked with protecting society from inevitable catastrophe. Stars from Season 1 have returned for the production of the upcoming release, including Academy-Award winner Oldman as Jackson Lamb, Lowden as River Cartwright, Kristin Scott Thomas as Diana Taverner, Saskia Reeves as Catherine Standish and many more.

More “Slow Horses” is on the way. Apple TV+ announced Wednesday it had ordered Seasons 3 and 4 of the spy drama.Season 1 recently finished its run, and Season 2 has already been filmed, but doesn’t yet have a premiere date.Seasons 3 and 4 will adapt the next two novels in Mick Herron’s “Slough House” series.Season 3 will see Jackson Lamb’s (Gary Oldman) disgraced spies working together to foil a rogue agent when one of their own is kidnapped, per the streamer.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter“Slow Horses” has been renewed for two more seasons at Apple, Variety has learned. The show will now run through Season 4 at the streamer.The series is based on the “Slough House” spy book series by Mick Herron.

Ahead of its season 2 premiere, Apple TV+ has ordered two more seasons of the acclaimed spy drama Slow Horses starring Oscar winner Gary Oldman. Seasons 3 and 4 will be adapted from the next two novels in the Mick Herron spy series Slough House.

Slow Horses composer Daniel Pemberton admits he still hasn’t entirely wrapped his head around the fact that he got to pen the song “Strange Game” alongside Mick Jagger, which the Rolling Stones frontman sang for the Apple TV+ series.

The season finale of the new Apple TV+ series Slow Horses just premiered and the show has been confirmed to return for a second season.

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of the Slow Horses season finale. 

K.J. Yossman “Peaky Blinders” star Aimee-Ffion Edwards and “This is Going to Hurt’s” Kadiff Kirwan are set to join season 2 of Apple TV+’s “Slow Horses,” Variety can exclusively reveal.Although it has not yet been confirmed which parts Edwards and Kirwan will play, season 2 of the show about a group of MI5 no-hopers is understood to be based on “Dead Lions,” Mick Herron’s second book in the “Slow Horses” novels, which sees the addition of two new Slough House recruits: Shirley Dander and Marcus Longridge.The logline for the “Dead Lion” novel reads: “As the agents dig into their fallen comrade’s circumstances, they uncover a shadowy tangle of ancient secrets that seems to lead back to a man named Alexander Popov, and a decades-old conspiracy with a brand-new target: London’s newest, tallest skyscraper…” As well as playing Esme Shelby opposite Cillian Murphy in “Peaky Blinders,” Edwards has appeared in “War of the Worlds,” “Blithe Spirit” and the “Four Weddings and a Funeral” television series.Kadiff, meanwhile, is best known for Netflix’s “The Stranger,” which also features Richard Armitage, and recently starred as Julian alongside Ben Whishaw in “This is Going to Hurt.” Apple hasn’t given any indication of when season 2 might drop but most of the Slough House gang from the first season – including Gary Oldman, Jack Lowden, Rosalind Eleazar, Dustin Demri-Burns, Saskia Reeves and Christopher Chung – are set to return as well as Kristin Scott Thomas and Freddie Fox as Slough House nemeses Diana Taverner and Spider Webb.Edwards is repped by Conway van Gelder Grant while Kadiff is repped by McEwan & Penford and Grandview.

K.J. Yossman “Slow Horses” star Christopher Chung and “The Witcher’s” Paul Bullion have signed with More/Medavoy Management for representation.Australian-born, U.K.-based Chung is currently starring as Roddy Ho opposite Gary Oldman and Kristin Scott Thomas in the critically acclaimed Apple TV+ spy series “Slow Horses,” which has been adapted from the Mick Herron books of the same name.

EXCLUSIVE: After collaborating  on the film Greyhound — with  sequel in the works — and the just wrapped WWII series Masters of the Air, Playtone partners Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman have made multi-year exclusive television overall deal with Apple TV+.

Apple TV’s six-part mini-series Slow Horses, adapted from the novels of the same name by Mick Herron, landed on 1 April with a one-two punch and promptly kept viewers waiting, having decided to parse out the remaining four episodes out on a weekly basis. “It was Apple’s decision,” says director James Hawes. “But if the response I’ve had is anything to go by, the anticipation it has created is fantastic. I’ve got people ringing me up to say, ‘Why are you doing this? I wanted to finish it over the weekend!’ The greatest compliment you could have is that people are demanding more—and now.”

In today’s episode of Bingeworthy, our revitalized TV and streaming podcast, co-hosts Mike DeAngelo and Rodrigo Perez dig into Apple TV+’s latest London-based spy series, “Slow Horses.” Based on the Mick Herron novel of the same name, the show follows Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman), the slovenly, irascible, insubordinate leader of Slough House —a destination for all of British Intelligence’s misfits and career f*ck-ups.

Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticAs anyone who’s even fleetingly dipped into the vast, storied genre of the British spy thriller can attest, there are a few different games afoot in “Slow Horses.” What looks at first like a story of restless, demoted spies finding their purpose gets quickly twisted up in MI5 politics. Then, a couple of hours into the six-episode season, the show tries to turn everything we thought we knew inside out.

Jon Burlingame editorMick Jagger has written his first TV theme, for the Apple TV Plus spy series “Slow Horses,” debuting April 1. And it might never have happened if he hadn’t already read and liked the Mick Herron book on which it’s based.“It’s a quite popular series of books, so I knew what it was about,” the iconic Rolling Stones singer tells Variety.

Apple TV+ just dropped the new trailer for “Slow Horses”, starring Gary Oldman.

Apple TV+ has announced premiere dates for its upcoming espionage series Slow Horses, starring Oscar winner Gary Oldman, and female-driven anthology series Roar, starring Nicole Kidman, Cynthia Erivo, Merritt Wever and Alison Brie. The dates were revealed Friday, along with some first-look images, as part of Apple TV+’s TCA presentation.

Apple TV Plus has revealed the first look for it’s upcoming spy thriller series “Slow Horses,” premiering on the platform April 1.Based on the popular CWA Gold-Dagger award-winning novels by Mick Herron, “Slow Horses” stars Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb, a British intelligence officer who leads “Slough House,” an MI5 team composed of agents who made career-ending mistakes. The ensemble cast is rounded out by Jonathan Pryce, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jack Lowden and Olivia Cooke.“Slow Horses” is adapted for television by “Veep” writer Will Smith, who executive produces alongside Graham Yost, Jamie Laurenson, Hakan Kousetta, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gail Mutrux, Douglas Urbanski and James Hawes.

Like your espionage stories cold, old school, and throwback ala “Tailor Tinker Soldier Spy“? Apple TV+ might just have the thing for you. Today the streamer revealed the premiere date and a first look at the much-anticipated espionage series, “Slow Horses,” starring Academy Award-winner Gary Oldman.

Will Thorne Staff WriterThe Apple spy drama “Slow Horses” has added a quartet of eye-catching names to its cast.Joining Gary Oldman in the lead will be Kristin Scott Thomas, Jack Lowden, Jonathan Pryce and Olivia Cooke. News of the castings comes over a year after the small screen adaptation of Mick Herron’s Slough House books was first announced.“Slow Horses” follows a team of British intelligence agents who serve in a dumping ground department of MI5 – Slough House.

EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV+’s Gary Oldman spy drama Slow Horses has rounded out its cast, with Ready Player One star Olivia Cooke and The Two Popes actor Jonathan Pryce joining a lineup that also includes Kristin Scott Thomas and Jack Lowden.