‘Slow Horses’: Hugo Weaving, Joanna Scanlan, James Callis, Tom Brooke & Ruth Bradley Join Season 4 Of Apple TV+ Drama
Apple TV+ has revealed some excellent talent who will be joining Gary Oldman in Season 4 of the brilliant and acclaimed spy drama ‘Slow Horses‘… And if you’re thinking you’ve missed Season 3, you haven’t, that is due later this year, but it was renewed for two more seasons last year, which they shoot back-to-back.
The darkly funny espionage drama, based on CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning Mick Herron spy series “Slough House”, follows a team of British intelligence agents who serve in a dumping ground department of MI5 due to their career-ending mistakes. Led by their brilliant but irascible leader, the notorious Jackson Lamb (Oldman), they navigate the espionage world’s smoke and mirrors to defend England from sinister forces.
Alongside Oldman, the series regulars include Academy Award nominee Kristin Scott Thomas, BAFTA Scotland Award winner Jack Lowden, Saskia Reeves, Rosalind Eleazar, Christopher Chung, Chris Reilly, Samuel West, Sophie Okonedo, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Kadiff Kirwan and Academy Award nominee Jonathan Pryce.
Joining them in Season 4 will be ‘Lord Of The Rings’ and ‘The Matrix’ star Hugo Weaving; The wonderful Joanna Scanlan (‘No Offence’, ‘After Love’); ‘Battlestar Galactica’s James Callis (who more recently also popped up as Jean-Luc’s father in ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 2!); Tom Brooke, who you’ll know from ‘Preacher’, ‘Sherlock’, ‘Bodyguard’, and a host of other excellent dramas; And Ruth Bradley, who you might know from ‘Primeval’ and ‘Humans’, along with Netflix’s ‘Love/Hate’, Apple’s ‘Ted Lasso’ and BBC’s ‘The Gold’.
Directed by Adam Randall (‘I See You’), season four opens with a bombing that detonates personal secrets, rocking the already unstable foundations of Slough House…
Before we get to that, season three, which is due to land later in 2023, sees Jackson Lamb’s disgraced spies work together to foil a rogue agent when one of their own is kidnapped. Sope Dirisu (‘Gangs of London’) joins the cast for that season, as the former head of security at the British embassy in Istanbul. Saul Metzstein (‘Ripper Street’, ‘Brassic’, ‘Doctor Who’) directs the third season.
Regarding the future after season four, Gary Oldman has stated he’s very happy to keep making the drama for as long as Apple want it. Oldman even when so far as to say “I’d be very happy and honoured and privileged to go out as Jackson Lamb and then hang it up,” teasing he’d be okay if he retired from acting with this role. There are currently 8 novels in Mick Herron’s “Slough House” series, along with 4 novellas, and a 9th novel due later this year, so plenty more material to keep them going for a while yet.
The series is produced for Apple TV+ by See-Saw Films and adapted for television by Will Smith (‘Veep’). Jamie Laurenson, Hakan Kousetta, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Douglas Urbanski, Gail Mutrux, Will Smith, Jane Robertson and Graham Yost serve as executive producers on the series. Saul Metzstein is set to direct the third season; the director for the fourth season has not yet been announced.
‘Slow Horses‘ returns later in 2023 for Season 3, with Season 4 expected to land in 2024. If you want to keep track of this or any other show, you can add them via our Never Miss system, and you’ll be notified when it gets a UK premiere date.
