Slow Horses Season 3 Premiere Date Announced by Apple TV+

The Gary Oldman-led dramatic thriller is coming back to Apple TV+ in December.

Slow Horses Season 3 makes a two-episode premiere on Friday, December 1, followed by one new episode weekly through December 29 on Apple TV+.

The espionage drama’s six-episode third season is adapted from Real Tigers, the third novel in Mick Herron’s spy series Slough House.

Oldman stars as Jackson Lamb, “the brilliant but misanthropic leader of the spies.” He leads a team of British intelligence agents “who serve in a dumping ground department of MI5 due to their career-ending mistakes,” per Slow Horses‘ description.

The ensemble of spies navigate the espionage world and defend England from sinister forces.

Alongside Oldman, the Apple TV+ series stars Jack Lowden, Saskia Reeves, Rosalind Eleazar, Christopher Chung, Freddie Fox, Chris Reilly, Samuel West, Sophie Okonedo, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Kadiff Kirwan, and Jonathan Pryce.

“A romantic liaison in Istanbul threatens to expose a buried MI5 secret in London” on Slow Horses Season 3. “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,” per the season’s synopsis.

Ṣọpẹ Dìrísù joins Slow Horses Season 3 as Sean Donovan, the former head of security at the British embassy in Istanbul. Katherine Waterston also joins the cast as Alison Dunn, an MI5 agent who uncovers a dark secret at the heart of the agency.

Produced for Apple TV+ by See-Saw Films and adapted for television by Will Smith, the drama made its two-episode series debut with Slow Horses Season 1 Episodes 1 and 2, “Failure’s Contagious / Work Drinks,” in April 2022.

Since its premiere, Slow Horses has received several BAFTA Television Award nominations.

Those nominations include Best Lead Actor for Gary Oldman, Best Supporting Actor for Jack Lowden, Best Editing: Fiction for Katie Weiland, Best Original Music: Fiction for Daniel Pemberton and Mick Jagger, and Best Sound: Fiction for Martin Jensen, Joe Beal, Duncan Price, Craig Butters, Sarah Elias and Andrew Sissons.

The show premiered its second season with Slow Horses Season 2 Episodes 1 and 2, “Last Stop / From Upshott With Love,” in December 2022. The season concluded with Slow Horses Season 2 Episode 6, “Old Scores,” later that month.

With its first two seasons streaming on Apple TV+ and its third set to debut in December, the streaming service has already renewed Slow Horses for a fourth season that will adapt from Merron’s fourth novel, Spook Street.

Saul Metzstein directed Slow Horses Season 3.

Jamie Laurenson, Hakan Kousetta, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Douglas Urbanski, Gail Mutrux, Will Smith, Jane Robertson and Graham Yost executive produce the series.

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Slow Horses Season 3 premieres on Friday, December 1, on Apple TV+.

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