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By Dustin Rowles | News | July 8, 2025
In renewals and cancellations, Apple TV+ has renewed its popular spy series Slow Horses for a seventh season. You may be doing some mental calculations right now, wondering how many seasons of Slow Horses you’ve actually seen, because you’re pretty sure that Apple TV+ hasn’t aired six seasons yet.
That’s correct. They’ve only aired four seasons. However, the fifth season is set to release in September, the sixth season has already been filmed, and production on the seventh season has begun. I’d worry that Slow Horses is going to catch up to Mick Herron’s novels, but the ninth is set to come out later this summer, and he typically writes one each year, if you include the Slough House-adjacent novellas.
What’s also remarkable is that four seasons have already aired for a series that premiered in April 2022. When the fifth season airs, the series will have been on for less than three-and-a-half years.
To put that into perspective, the first season of Slow Horses premiered in April 2022. Since then, Apple TV+ has aired four seasons, shot two more seasons, and is currently filming a seventh. Meanwhile, Severance, which premiered a couple of months before Slow Horses, has aired two seasons in that same timeframe. Likewise, Stranger Things aired its fourth season a month after Slow Horses premiered. It still hasn’t delivered its fifth. Insane.
In other renewals and cancellation news, there are three to report from Netflix: They have cancelled Pulse and The Residence. The latter had good reviews but no buzz. The former had lots of negative buzz and poor reviews. It was bad. I thought it was the kind of bad that might get it a second season, but then The Pitt came along and now nobody wants to watch bad medical dramas anymore. Damn you, The Pitt!
Netflix has also put No Good Deed on indefinite pause, which is a quiet cancellation. I thought I’d never heard of No Good Deed, but then I looked it up and realized I’ve actually seen it. It’s that Lisa Kudrow and Ray Romano series that came and went about six months ago. It was not memorable.
