![]() ![]() See-Saw is also busy in prep on another major Apple TV project - period drama The Essex Serpent, production on which has been slightly delayed following Keira Knightley’s departure from the project. Dead Lions was the second in a run of six it won the Crime Writers' Association 2013 Gold Dagger award when it was published in 2013. Slow Horses was published in 2010, and was the start of a spy series by Herron called Slough House, about M15 agents exiled from the mainstream. See-Saw Films is making the drama, which has been adapted as 12 x 60 episodes by Will Smith the series is based on Herron's books Slow Horses and Dead Lions. Oldman stars as Jackson Lamb, a brilliant but exiled intelligence officer who ends up in M15's 'dumping ground' department, due to career-ending mistakes. There they are set such tedious, mind-numbing tasks it’s hoped they will be fed-up enough to quit. Slough House is where the spook screw-ups from MI5 who, for some reason or other, can’t be sacked, are sent. ![]() Slow Horses, a hefty new drama for Apple adapted from the books by Mick Herron, begins filming in London this week starring Gary Oldman. Dead Lions is the second novel in the Slough House series by British author, Mick Herron. ![]()
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