It's not long until Slow Horses is back on our screens for its fifth season but there'll be a huge change to the show going forward.
Showrunner Will Smith has announced to Deadline that he will be handing over the reins of the Apple TV+ show after season 5.
Smith told the publication that there were "certainly some private tears" shed when production on season 5 finished.
Slow Horses has already been renewed for two more seasons and Smith will be replaced by Gaby Chiappe for season 6 and A Gentleman in Moscow's Ben Vanstone for season 7.
"Series 5, it doesn’t end things by any means," Smith told Deadline. "But it concludes certain story arcs that started in season 1, so it felt like a good moment to hand over the show."
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The Emmy winner also explained his decision to step back from the show, saying it's nothing to do with his recent success.
"I do want to emphasise, it’s not in any way that I thought I’m now too good for Slow Horses," he explained.
"It’s much more that I want to keep being good enough for Slow Horses. And I would never want it to be like, 'Oh, that one wasn’t quite there'.
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"It’s just that risk of just pushing it too far. And I just felt, I just want to go when I know I’m still delivering my very, very best for all the people that work on the show."
Slow Horses stars Gary Oldman as the leader of a group of MI5 rejects who have been banished to Slough House.
Season 5 will see the group become suspicious when Roddy Ho gets a glamorous new girlfriend and when a "series of increasingly bizarre events" occur across London.
Slow Horses season 5 premieres on Apple TV+ on 24 September.
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