According to Apple TV Press, Apple TV’s Emmy award winning espionage series Slow Horses season six will be returning in the fall. We will get to see what mission Team Slough House will be taking on in this latest installment.
For those who don’t know, Slow Horses is a series that tells a story involving a dysfunctional team of MI5 agents who navigate the espionage world’s smoke and mirrors to defend the UK from sinister forces. According to Apple TV Press, the sixth season logline reads: “Season six sees the team Slow Horses on the run as Diana Taverner embroils them all in a fatally high-stakes game of retaliation and revenge. The sixth season will run for six episodes and premiere globally on Wednesday with the first episode and will be followed by one episode weekly until October 21, 2026.
The series is produced for Apple TV by See-Saw Films, with Jamie Laurenson (Hijack, Down Cemetery Road), Hakan Kousetta (The Essex Serpent, Heartstopper), Julian Stevens (The Rising, A Christmas Carol), lain Canning (Apple Cider Vinegar, Sweetpea), Emile Sherman (Foe, One Life), Adam Randall (Night Teeth, I See You), Gail Mutrux (News of the World, iBoy), Douglas Urbanski (Parthenope, Crisis), and Gary Oldman (Oppenheimer, Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard) serving as executive producers. Season six is adapted for television by co-executive producer Gaby Chiappe (The Beast Must Die, Isolation Stories), with Randall returning to direct.
The ensemble cast includes Academy Award nominee Kristin Scott Thomas (My Mother’s Wedding, Two Tickets to Greece), Emmy Award nominee Jack Lowden (Vote Gavin Lyle, Ella McCay), Saskia Reeves (Suez: 24 Hours That Broke the British Empire, National Theatre Live: End), BAFTA TV Award nominee Christopher Chung (Dragon Striker, Doctor Who), Aimee-Ffion Edwards (Believe Me, Lonely No More), Rosalind Elezar (Elizabeth II: The Unseen Photos, Frank & Louis), Joanna Scanlan (Missed Call, Riot Women), BAFTA Award nominee Samuel West (All Creatures Great & Small, Doctor Who: The War Doctor), Ruth Bradley (Concordia, Embers), Tom Brooke (Empire of Light, The Crown), Academy Award nominee Johnathan Pryce (Flavia, Under Salt Marsh) and Hugo Weaving (Baby Shower, How to Make Gravy), alongside new addition, BAFTA TV Award winner Lenny Rush (Make That Movie, A Woman of Substance).
The sixth season will premiere on September 16, 2026. In the meantime, you can watch the previous five seasons of the show on Apple TV in order to get caught up for the main event.