Look: 'Slow Horses' gets Season 3 photos, premiere date

Gary Oldman plays Jackson Lamb on the Apple TV+ series "Slow Horses." File Photo by Chris Chew/UPI
Gary Oldman plays Jackson Lamb on the Apple TV+ series "Slow Horses." File Photo by Chris Chew/UPI

Sept. 20 (UPI) -- Slow Horses will return for a third season in December.

Apple TV+ shared a premiere date and first-look photos for the season Wednesday.

Slow Horses is based on the Slough House book series by Mick Herron, which follows "a dysfunctional team of British intelligence agents who serve in a dumping-ground department of MI5 known un-affectionately as Slough House."

Season 3 adapts Real Tigers, the third book in Herron's series. The season will see a romantic liaison in Istanbul threaten to expose a buried MI5 secret in London.

"When Jackson Lamb and his team of misfits are dragged into the fight, they find themselves caught in a conspiracy that threatens the future not just of Slough House but of MI5 itself," an official synopsis reads.

Kristin Scott Thomas attends the Fashion Awards in London in 2021. File Photo by Rune Hellestad/UPI
Kristin Scott Thomas attends the Fashion Awards in London in 2021. File Photo by Rune Hellestad/UPI
Sophie Okonedo attends the Toronto International Film Festival premiere of "The Son" in 2022. File Photo by Chris Chew/UPI
Sophie Okonedo attends the Toronto International Film Festival premiere of "The Son" in 2022. File Photo by Chris Chew/UPI

Gary Oldman stars alongside Kristin Scott Thomas, Jack Lowden, Saskia Reeves, Rosalind Eleazar, Christopher Chung, Freddie Fox, Chris Reilly, Samuel West, Sophie Okonedo, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Kadiff Kirwan and Jonathan Pryce.

??p? Dìrísù joins the cast as Sean Donovan, the former head of security at the British embassy in Istanbul, with Katherine Waterston as Alison Dunn, an MI5 agent who uncovers a dark secret at the heart of the agency.

Katherine Waterston attends the Paris premiere of "Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald" in 2018. File Photo by David Silpa/UPI
Katherine Waterston attends the Paris premiere of "Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald" in 2018. File Photo by David Silpa/UPI

Slow Horses Season 3 will have a two-episode premiere Dec. 1, with subsequent episodes to be released weekly on Fridays.