Slow Horses season 5 has officially wrapped production
Apple TV Plus’ gritty spy thriller, Slow Horses, has impressed viewers with its action-packed scenes, gripping drama, and incredible acting. It’s one of the longest-running Apple Originals and an Emmy-nominated TV show for good reason and there’s more to come as Jackson Lamb and his Slough House team are set to return for season 5.
The fact that Slow Horses has so far managed to release a new season every year is a wildly impressive feat in today’s streaming landscape and they’re clearly not stopping anytime soon. Slow Horses season 4 has secured a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and season 5 is already well on the way. Here’s everything we know about it so far from the Apple TV Plus release date, trailer, possible plot, and more news and rumors.
Potential spoilers follow for Slow Horses season 1-4. This is your fair warning.Slow Horses season 5 release date prediction
Apple TV Plus renewed Slow Horses for a fifth season back in January 2024. And, in October, a X/Twitter post from FilmUpdates revealed that season 5 had already wrapped production, just ten months after renewal.
To back this up, during an interview with Collider in early October, showrunner Will Smith said: “We’ve nearly done Season 5. We’ve got a couple of days to finish off on it, but we’re already into the edit, so it’s coming. Don’t worry, it’s coming. Not as quick as you want, but it’s coming.”
When asked when it would be out, Smith replied: “I genuinely don’t know the answer as to when it’s gonna be out, but I can’t imagine that Apple would want to leave it longer than a year since Season 4. So, the latest it would be out, I would say, would be the same slot next year.” And Apple certainly haven’t left it longer than a year so far.
Slow Horses has demonstrated an impressive release schedule, dropping a season every year since 2022 – and season 1 and 2 even came out in the same year. So, given that season 5 has wrapped production and was reportedly in edit in October, we’d make a release date prediction of mid-to-late 2025.Slow Horses season 5 trailer
In what appears to be establishing itself as a Slow Horses tradition, there was a season 5 teaser trailer shared at the end of the season 4 finale.
In less than a minute, someone tries to kill Roddy, a terrorist plot threatens London, and once again, the police turn to Lamb to help them predict the next move. Plus, an unknown killing, although if Slow Horses’ history is anything to go by, it could be anyone – no cast member is safe. We’ll get into more about what the teaser trailer alludes to when it comes to plot below, and we’ll update here as soon as we have a full trailer to share.Slow Horses season 5 confirmed cast
Full spoilers follow for Slow Horses season 4.
Given who we saw in the season 5 teaser, here’s the confirmed cast for Slow Horses season 5:
Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb
Jack Lowden as River Cartwright
Kristin Scott Thomas as Diana Taverner
Saskia Reeves as Catherine Standish
Christopher Chung as Roddy Ho
Aimee-Ffion Edwards as Shirley Dander
Rosaline Eleazar as Louisa Guy
Ruth Bradly as Emma Flyte
James Callis as Claude Whelan
Tom Brooke as J.
