APPLE TV+ SETS OCTOBER PREMIERE FOR MICK HERRON THRILLER ‘DOWN CEMETERY ROAD’ WITH EMMA THOMPSON & RUTH WILSON
Fans of Slow Horses are set for another dose of Mick Herron’s signature espionage grit. Apple TV+ has announced Down Cemetery Road, a new drama adapted from Herron’s first novel in the Zöe Boehm series, will debut this autumn with an A-list cast fronting the production.
Emma Thompson will lead the series as Zöe Boehm, a razor-sharp private investigator with a past of her own, while Ruth Wilson co-stars as Sarah Tucker — an ordinary woman thrust into extraordinary circumstances after a seemingly accidental house explosion reveals the disappearance of a young girl.
The first two episodes will premiere globally on Wednesday, 29 October, with one new episode dropping weekly through 10 December.
Herron’s work returns to screen with many of the ingredients that propelled Slow Horses to critical acclaim and a devoted fanbase: intricate plotting, clipped dark humour, and compromised protagonists navigating a world of deception and consequence. Behind the scenes, the show retains further DNA from Slow Horses — Morwenna Banks, who contributed to the Apple hit, scripts this adaptation.
Rounding out the ensemble are Adeel Akhtar, Tom Goodman-Hill, Darren Boyd and Sinead Matthews, building early momentum for what industry observers are already tipping as another prestige thriller in Apple’s lineup.
Given Herron’s growing cultural footprint — and the pairing of Thompson and Wilson at the centre — Down Cemetery Road is widely expected to become Apple TV+’s next tentpole in the streaming spy-drama space.
