Will Smith, writer and executive producer of Apple TV+’s Slow Horses, is leaving the acclaimed series after its fifth season, Screen has confirmed.
Smith has served as showrunner of the UK-shot series since its first season in 2022. His work on the show won him the Emmy for writing on a drama series in 2024 and he is again nominated for the award this year.
The series’ fifth season starts on Apple TV+ in September and the streamer has already ordered sixth and seventh seasons of the comedic spy drama based on Mick Herron’s Slough House novels. Current writer Gaby Chiappe will take over from Smith for season six and Ben Vanstone, currently showrunner on All Creatures Great And Small, will come in for season seven.
The show follows a dysfunctional team of British intelligence agents who serve in a dumping ground department of MI5. The ensemble cast includes Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jack Lowden and Jonathan Pryce. See-Saw Films produces the series for AppleTV+.
Slow Horses only picked up its first Emmy nominations for its third season, but since then has produced nominations for Oldman, Lowden and Pryce as well as Smith and other behind the camera talents.
In an interview with Screen last year Smith said the awards attention “does change the lens through which you’re viewed and certain pressures come with that. We get nominated for nine Emmys and I’m like, I’ve got to win 10 next year otherwise we’re perceived as sliding.”
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