First and Second Desk still don't see eye-to-eye, with Whelan insisting MI5 come forward publicly with the information.

Oldman, who recently earned a Golden Globe nod for his performance in the show as irascible spook Jackson Lamb, will return alongside Kristin Scott Thomas, who plays MI5 second desk Diana Taverner ...

Kristin Scott Thomas is back as the elegant-icy Diana Taverner, MI5’s No. 2 — or in the show’s jargon, head of the Second Desk.

James Callis told UPI the Claude Whelan, the MI5 director he portrays on "Slow Horses," means well, but is in over his head in the spy agency's top position.

Though former MI5 director Stella Rimington knows better than anyone that Ian Fleming's From Russia With Love is not a realistic portrayal of life in the intelligence services, she still loves ...

An MI5 desk officer suspected the ringleader of the 7/7 bomb plot was a trained terrorist two months before the 2005 attacks on London, the inquest has heard.

Even the jargon feels real: MI5's brutal internal security operatives, often used as muscle, are "the dogs"; the service's deputy chief is "second desk”; field agents are "joes", a term borrowed ...

Apple+ The top of MI5 also seems to struggle with gender as we are introduced to newly promoted Claude Whelan who has grabbed first desk (director general of MI5) from Diana Taverner.

Apple TV+ MI5 drama 'Slow Horses,' which stars Gary Oldman and Kristin Scott Thomas, has been renewed for a fifth season.