From the new major superhero series to the two under-the-radar series premiering their fourth seasons, plenty of television for every type of viewer is hitting screens this September. The big names are the spinoff series “The Penguin” and “Agatha All Along,” both of which focus on breakout characters from their respective predecessors. 

Elsewhere, there’s the recently nominated fourth season of critical favorite “Slow Horses” and the final season of the HBO series, “My Brilliant Friend.” For comedy there’s the latest bite-sized series for FX with “English Teacher.” If none of that strikes your fancy and you’re looking for something more peculiar, check out the upcoming adult-animated series from Zack Snyder.

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Apple TV+’s “Slow Horses” was a surprising smash at this year’s Emmy nominations, landing nods for Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series (Gary Oldman), Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (Jack Lowden), and a remarkable six other categories, including writing, directing, and editing. A program that had largely slid under the radar with its first two installments was now publicly recognized as one of the best on all television.

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It’s that mad time of year again, the fall season rush. In film terms, it’s manic in terms of releases and film festivals. And while slightly less hectic in the world of TV, there are a host of new and returning shows coming this fall, plus the Emmys in September. But the era of what we used to routinely call #TooMuchContent has reduced in the drastically changing streaming wars. The Netflix stock market crash in 2002 had a ripple effect as Wall Street reevaluated streaming value; the 2023 strikes didn’t help, but the end result has been slightly less content, which has made it more manageable for writers like us and audiences, frankly, many of which didn’t have time to watch everything.

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While there are series that come and go unceremoniously on streaming services all the time, “Slow Horses” keeps chugging along, now in its fourth season.

As seen in the trailer for “Slow Horses” Season four, the show follows the story of a group of misfit British intelligence agents who have to rise above their stations in life to save the day. The series consistently receives acclaim from critics, which probably helps it earn more seasons.

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As the Oscars draw closer, more and more category winners seem to be locking into place. One of those categories that took another step to being pretty much over is Adapted Screenplay. “American Fiction’s” Cord Jefferson has taken the BAFTA Award, the Independent Spirit Award, and, tonight, won the prestigious USC Scripter Award for Film alongside the original novel’s author, Percival Everett.

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Oh, and Jefferson also has a WGA Award nomination but due to the strike last year, those honors won’t be handed out until over a month after the Oscars.

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The Happy Sad Confused podcast has been on quite a roll lately with its live conversations at the 92 Street Y In New York. The latest this week is HSC in conversation with Academy Award winner Gary Oldman (“The Darkest Hour”), who made some headlines this past week for saying he was “mediocre” in the “Harry Potter” movies, the actor being something of a self-deprecating self-critic who is hard on himself.

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As the year winds down and certain shows have been pushed due to the previous WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, the December lineup for television is relatively quiet this year, at least compared to the film slate. The lack of clutter, however, allows for some smaller or more niche titles to be given their due, even if we have to wait for some of the bigger returns and premieres to arrive in the new year. From a South Korean horror series returning for its highly anticipated season two to a new adult animated series on Netflix and a long-awaited adaptation of the “Percy Jackson” series, there’s plenty to seek out, especially if you’re looking for television that digs into fantasy.

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“There’s always another game being played, isn’t there?” The game on top of the game is the overall theme of the three stellar seasons of “Slow Horses,” one of the best Apple TV+ original dramas. The first two six-episode installments premiered in 2022, offering fans of spy dramas largely standalone jolts of espionage-driven entertainment, and there is zero dip in quality in the upcoming third chapter of this excellent series. In fact, the third season may be the most propulsive, an outing that jumps right into the action, takes place nearly in real-time, and never lets up for six hours.

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In an era when streaming series are seemingly dumped and then quickly forgotten or just canceled after a season or two, there exists an outlier— “Slow Horses.” This is a series that hasn’t really dominated the streaming charts, but for some reason, Apple TV+ not only keeps renewing it, but the series has a new season, like clockwork, each year. And so, even though many of you might not have seen the series, here’s your first look at Season 3 of “Slow Horses.”

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For those who haven’t yet hopped on the “Slow Horses” saddle, the series follows the story of a misfit group of British intelligence officers who have been sent to the dumping ground for those who aren’t the top MI5 agents.

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You’ll remember Apple TV+ was so gung-ho on its spy series, “Slow Horses” starring Academy Award winner Gary Oldman, they greenlit it for two seasons and shot them back-to-back and then released them both within the same year (April and December of 2022). Well, they also did the same with the renewal, announcing that seasons three and four of the critically acclaimed espionage drama would be greenlight and shot concurrently.

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One of the more revealing moments of the 2023 Spirit Awards on Saturday afternoon was the very warm standing ovation Sarah Polley and the cast of “Women Talking” received. The film was honored with the Robert Altman Award which is given to the director, cast and its casting director (in this case Polley’s brother John Buchan along with Jason Knight). But despite the film receiving an Oscar nomination for Best Picture and Adapted Screenplay, the United Artists drama had someone faded this awards season outside of an embarrassing moment at last weekend’s SAG Awards where Mark Wahlberg referred to it as “Women Are Talking.” That being said, the reaction from the audience at the Spirits was a sign of genuine respect from Polley’s peers.

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The streaming age might be in flux as we speak. The biggest story of the year, without question​​—which maybe some people don’t recognize as the biggest story of the year, but trust us, it was— was the Netflix stock crash of April 2022. After years of flying high, Wall Street suddenly turned on Netflix, turned on streaming, and started rethinking their evaluations of the profit margins on streaming. This news rocked the film and TV industry.

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In today’s episode of Bingeworthy, our TV and streaming podcast host Mike DeAngelo gets pulled back into Apple TV+’s London-based spy series, “Slow Horses.” Based on the Mick Herron novel of the same name, the show follows Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman), the slovenly, irascible, insubordinate leader of Slough House —a destination for all of British Intelligence’s misfits and career f*ck-ups. In the second season, which premiered its first two episodes last week on Apple TV+, the derogatorily dubbed “Slow Horses” stumble into another far-reaching case when a former colleague of Jackson Lamb’s is found dead on a bus.

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It’s been a truly stellar year for television, with each new month providing ample opportunities to immerse ourselves in superb storytelling as the “to watch” list grows longer by the day. Most of the tentpole series have come and gone, with the major IP of Marvel, “Star Wars,” “The Lord of the Rings,” and “Game of Thrones” and their spinoffs all dominating a large part of the conversation.

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Just under eight months after the acclaimed premiere of the first season of “Slow Horses,” Apple TV+ launches a second outing (and has already commissioned a third and a fourth) on Friday, December 2nd. The good news is that there’s no sophomore slump here in a 6-episode run that actually feels like it has higher stakes and more intense action than the first. Yes, it’s still a show about underdogs who save the day, but there’s less sad sack character study here now that this world of raggedy John Le Carre spy plotting has already been unpacked.

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Gary Oldman has a hit with his Apple TV+ series, “Slow Horses.” But in promotion for the show’s second season, which premieres on December 2, Oldman hinted the spy series may be one of the final roles of his acting career.

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Vanity Fair reports (via the Times Of London) that Oldman is mulling retirement as he heads into his mid-sixties.

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When “Slow Horses” debuted on Apple TV+, the series ended with a surprise— not only has the show been picked up for Season 2, but they already had filmed it. So, even though the first season only debuted back in April, the next batch of “Slow Horses” episodes will debut before the end of the year.

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As seen in the new trailer for “Slow Horses” Season 2, the series picks up with our delightful band of misfit MI5 agents as they have a new mystery to investigate.

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The most crowded season in television history just came to a close for Emmy voters, leaving professionals scrambling to figure out how to dig out from the weight of so many new and returning shows. Programs that had been delayed because of COVID like “Atlanta” and “Barry” came roaring back, and all of the major networks and streamers seemed to invest in the Limited Series game. The result was a sense that television had become almost overwhelming, making it harder than ever to hear the best voices through all the noise.

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As 2022 coasts into the summer months, it’s time for studios to decide which of their new TV series get axed and which ones live on for another season or more. And it looks like two of this spring’s most critically acclaimed shows just had their lives extended.  AppleTV+ ordered two more seasons of its spy ensemble series “Slow Horses,” while HBO Max renewed pirate comedy “Our Flag Means Death” for one more trip on the high seas.

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British actor Gary Oldman (“Mank“) won a long-deserved Best Actor Oscar for the Winston Churchill biopic “Darkest Hour” and recently revealed he’ll have a small roll in Christopher Nolan‘s atomic bomb drama “Oppenheimer,” reuniting with the “Dark Knight” trilogy director. Oldman is now getting some buzz for his spy series “Slow Horses” which can be seen exclusively on Apple TV+ and is teasing potentially stepping away from acting in a new interview.

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In today’s episode of Bingeworthy, our revitalized TV and streaming podcast, co-hosts Mike DeAngelo and Rodrigo Perez dig into Apple TV+’s latest London-based spy series, “Slow Horses.” Based on the Mick Herron novel of the same name, the show follows Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman), the slovenly, irascible, insubordinate leader of Slough House —a destination for all of British Intelligence’s misfits and career f*ck-ups.

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We continue to repeat ourselves, but it’s because it’s true —there’s a terrific amount of television coming out on a month-to-month basis currently, and so much of it looks so good it arguably borders on eating cinema’s lunch. While based on the prestige that follows it, we’re able to tell the absolute must-watches such as the return of fan and critic favorite series “Russian Doll,” “Barry,” and “Better Call Saul,” there are plenty more that are premiering in April that will also require time and energy.

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“I think they’re f*cking losers,” spy veteran Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman) says with characteristic brutal honesty to Mi5 superior Diana Taverner (Kristin Scott Thomas) when asked if he really cares for his team of rejects, while they sit on a park bench at 2 am in the middle of a national crisis. “But they’re my losers,” he says with loyal punctuation. This moment might sum up “Slow Horses,” in a nutshell, a darkly humorous British espionage thriller featuring a rogue, insubordinate spy old-timer, who is the boss of Slough House: a punitive dumping ground shithole and spy division for banished agents, f*ck ups, and castaways who have been exiled from the main Regent’s Park M15 HQ for embarrassing career-ending blunders of one sort or another.

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Let’s be honest, over the course of his legendary career, Gary Oldman has proven that he is almost incapable of turning in a bad performance. On that merit alone, we couldn’t be more excited for the upcoming series, “Slow Horses.”

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As seen in the trailer for “Slow Horses,” the new series follows the story of a ragtag group of misfit MI5 agents who are relegated to the Slough House.

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Like your espionage stories cold, old school, and throwback ala “Tailor Tinker Soldier Spy“? Apple TV+ might just have the thing for you. Today the streamer revealed the premiere date and a first look at the much-anticipated espionage series, “Slow Horses,” starring Academy Award-winner Gary Oldman. The six-episode drama series adapted from CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning Mick Herron’s novels will make its worldwide debut on Friday, April 1, 2022, with the first two episodes, followed by one new episode weekly, every Friday. 

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