Apple TV+ spy drama Slow Horses has been filming at the Blavatnik School of Government in Oxford.
Slow Horses season 2 has come to a dramatic end, but the show isn’t stopping anytime soon, with production on a third instalment currently underway.
The third season will see Jackson Lamb, played by Gary Oldman, and his ream get back to solving another case when Catherine Standish (Saskia Reeves) goes missing.
READ AGAIN: Mick Herron's novels will be on TV
Apple TV+ has given fans a preview of the forthcoming season of the thriller series, teasing plenty of guns, knives, blood, theories and more.
The clip also gives fans a glimpse of an injured River Cartwright (Jack Lowden) as a voiceover says: "secrets will always come out, there will always be a reckoning".
The spy series has been a big hit for Apple, and follows a group of agents who have been exiled to MI5 dumping ground Slough House.
The TV series is based on the novels of Mick Herron, who lives in Oxford.
The series has been renewed for a third season and also confirmed for a fourth season.
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At the weekend, parking restrictions were in place around the Blavatnik building in Walton Street as film trucks parked up nearby.
A spokeswoman for the Blavatnik School of Government said: "Apple TV were filming inside at the weekend - they have now left."
One Jericho resident said: "There were film trucks in Great Clarendon Street and Walton Street.
"A security guard told me there was filming, stars and more."
It is not known if Gary Oldman featured in the scenes shot in Oxford, or why the Blavatnik was chosen.
Seasons three and four will be based on the novels Real Tigers and Spook Street, meaning the drama will have got through half of Mick Herron's eight-part book series, although there is a ninth on the way.
Mr Lowden told RadioTimes.com that he would want to continue playing River and adapting Herron's novels beyond the current confirmed third and fourth seasons.
Asked whether he would like to play the character for eight seasons, to adapt each of Herron's eight novels, the actor said: "I mean, I want to see them – as a fan. I want to see all eight seasons, of course, and I think Mick’s writing another. And so as a fan, I'd love to watch it.
"And obviously as the actor in it, I would love to just keep going with where River is heading because we're shooting season 3 just now and it's really exciting where he's going.
"There's definitely a bigger story with River that I would definitely love to see to its conclusion, which I can't say anything about, but if it's going the way I think it's going – because I've not read the books – then I'd love to see it."
Episodes from season 3 could start airing on Apple TV+ by late 2023.
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This story was written by Andy Ffrench, he joined the team more than 20 years ago and now covers community news across Oxfordshire.
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