‘Slow Horses’ Unveils Season 6 Premiere Date & Lenny Rush Image

A sixth helping of Slow Horses is on its way and premiere date will be September 16, Apple TV has just announced.

The spy drama, which introduces BAFTA-winner Lenny Rush this time around, kicks off with the Slow Horses on the run as Diana Taverner (Kristin Scott Thomas) embroils them all in a fatally high-stakes game of retaliation and revenge. The season is based on the sixth and seventh books of Mick Herron’s Slough House series titled Joe Country and Slough House.

Rush, who won a BAFTA for the BBC’s Am I Being Unreasonable?, is having his role kept under wraps but the image shows him with Christopher Chung’s Roddy Ho. Other pics can be seen below. Episode 1 will drop September 16 followed by weekly eps until October 21.

With a seventh season already in the works, Slow Horses is one of Apple TV’s biggest hits. It follows spies in Slough House, outcasts working under the watchful, grumpy eye of spymaster Jackson Lamb, played by Gary Oldman. The ensemble cast includes Academy Award nominee Scott Thomas, Emmy Award nominee Jack Lowden, Saskia Reeves, BAFTA TV Award nominee Chung, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Rosalind Eleazar, Joanna Scanlan, BAFTA Award nominee Samuel West, Ruth Bradley, Tom Brooke, Academy Award nominee Jonathan Pryce and Hugo Weaving.

The series is produced for Apple TV by See-Saw Films, with Jamie Laurenson, Hakan Kousetta, Julian Stevens, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Adam Randall, Gail Mutrux, Douglas Urbanski and Oldman serving as executive producers. Season six is adapted for television by co-executive producer Gaby Chiappe, with Adam Randall returning to direct.

Season 7 is in the works and will adapt the eighth book, Bad Actors.