Here’s your eagerly awaited dead drop, Slow Horses fans: The fourth season of the BAFTA Award-winning espionage series returns to Apple TV+ on September 4, according to the “first look” the streamer gave Thursday. That’s the image above. And once again, some makeup artist deserves major awards for making Gary Oldman look like sagging spymaster Jackson Lamb, poster boy for decades of booze, smokes, greasy food, stress and betrayal.
Slow Horses season 4 returns to Apple TV+ September 9
Slow Horses season 4 comes straight from Spook Street, the fourth novel in the CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning Mick Herron spy series “Slough House.” Each season has more or less brilliantly adapted one of Herron’s books. And Apple TV+ recently green-lit a fifth season, set to be adapted from the fifth novel, London Rules.
Here’s Apple’s description of the show, with just a faint clue or two about the upcoming fourth season:
Slow Horses is a darkly humorous espionage drama that follows a dysfunctional team of British intelligence agents who serve in an MI5 dumping ground department known unaffectionately as Slough House. Season four opens with a bombing that detonates personal secrets, rocking Slough House’s already unstable foundations. Oldman stars as Jackson Lamb, the brilliant but misanthropic leader of the spies, who end up in Slough House due to their career-ending mistakes as they frequently find themselves blundering around the smoke and mirrors of the espionage world.
The fantastic cast includes Oldman plus Academy Award nominee Kristin Scott Thomas, BAFTA Scotland Award winner Jack Lowden, Saskia Reeves, Rosalind Eleazar, Christopher Chung, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Kadiff Kirwan and Academy Award nominee Jonathan Pryce. SAG Award winner Hugo Weaving. In season 4, some new faces appear: BAFTA Award winner Joanna Scanlan, IFTA Award winner Ruth Bradley, Tom Brooke and James Callis.
See-Saw Films produces the show for Apple TV+. Will Smith (Veep) adapted it for television. Jamie Laurenson, Hakan Kousetta, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Jane Robertson, Julian Stevens, Douglas Urbanski, Gail Mutrux, Graham Yost and Smith serve as executive producers on the series. Season four is directed by Adam Randall.
Slow Horses wins awards
Apple listed awards the popular and critically acclaimed show has won:
- Two BAFTA Television Awards in 2024 for Best Editing: Fiction (Sam Williams) and Best Sound: Fiction (Sound Team)
- Nine additional nominations across 2023 and 2024 included Best Drama Series, Oldman’s first for Best Lead Actor; Lowden’s for Best Supporting Actor; Best Editing: Fiction (Zsófia Tálas); Best Editing: Fiction (Katie Weiland); Best Original Music: Fiction (Daniel Pemberton and Mick Jagger); Best Sound: Fiction (Martin Jensen, Joe Beal, Duncan Price, Craig Butters, Sarah Elias and Andrew Sissons); and, Best Hair and Makeup Design (Lucy Sibbick).
- The award for Best English-Language Drama Series at the 2022 C21 International Drama Awards
Watch Slow Horses on Apple TV+
Season four of Slow Horses will premiere Wednesday, September 4 with the first two episodes, followed by one new episode each Wednesday through October 2, on Apple TV+. Fans can stream the first three seasons, which all hold a Certified Fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes.
The service is available by subscription for $9.99 with a seven-day free trial. You can also get it via any tier of the Apple One subscription bundle. For a limited time, customers who purchase and activate a new iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Mac or iPod touch can enjoy three months of Apple TV+ for free.
After launching in November 2019, “Apple TV+ became the first all-original streaming service to launch around the world, and has premiered more original hits and received more award recognitions faster than any other streaming service. To date, Apple Original films, documentaries and series have been honored with 471 wins and 2,090 award nominations and counting,” the service said.
In addition to award-winning movies and TV shows (including breakout soccer comedy Ted Lasso), Apple TV+ offers documentaries, dramas, comedies, kids shows and more.
Source: Apple TV+
