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Slow Horses creator Mick Herron has revealed the Apple TV adaptation of his books starring Gary Oldman as spymaster Jackson Lamb was delayed by a year \u2013 because he forgot to tell lawyers one of its characters had been in an earlier novel. This prompted \u201cdead silence\u201d among legal experts and then a year of talks \u2013 despite there being a simple solution.<\/p>\n
Mick, 62, was in conversation with the show\u2019s screenwriter Will Smith, 54, at the recent Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate, supported by the Express. During this Mick, inset right, admitted regretting having used \u201cBad\u201d Sam Chapman in his Slough House books.<\/p>\n
Bad Sam was a former MI5 internal security officer, known as a Head Dog, turned private detective who first appeared in Reconstruction, a standalone novel about six people facing the worst day of their lives published two years before the series began. Bad Sam then appeared in the early Slough House novels but was not listed as such in talks about the TV adaptation.<\/p>\n
Mick said: \u201cI would not have brought him into the Slough House series had I talked to the producers first, because he basically delayed everything by about a year. They had drawn up this contract for the option and these things get discussed for months and months.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n