{"id":377043,"date":"2026-09-06T03:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T10:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=377043"},"modified":"2026-09-06T03:44:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T10:44:20","slug":"apple-tv-slow-horses-and-ted-lasso-remain-its-best-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/apple-tv-slow-horses-and-ted-lasso-remain-its-best-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple TV+: Slow Horses and Ted Lasso remain its best shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apple has spent early 2026 leaning harder into originals on <a href=\"https:\/\/apple-tv-preview.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple TV+<\/a>. The catalog is smaller than what the biggest streamers carry, and that feels deliberate. Slow Horses and <a href=\"https:\/\/ted-lasso.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Ted Lasso<\/a> are the clearest examples of <strong>quality-over-quantity<\/strong> approach.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The numbers suggest the bet is working. Estimates put Apple TV+ at <strong>85 million<\/strong> users worldwide in early 2026, with a 12% share of the US market in Q1. Its audience also skews older, around 35 to 54, and the platform keeps pulling awards attention while adding newer German- and Spanish-language projects. The rough edge is still there, though: users continue to complain about clunky subtitle and audio controls.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Start with Slow Horses. You get the washed-up MI5 agents stuck at Slough House, Gary Oldman&#8217;s Jackson Lamb being equal parts brilliant and repulsive, River Cartwright straining to prove himself, and Diana Taverner turning up the pressure. Around them, a bunch of complicated, messy people stumble into kidnappings, assassination plots, and conspiracies that keep spreading outward.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then there&#8217;s Ted Lasso. An American football coach gets dropped into AFC Richmond by Rebecca Welton, who&#8217;s expecting him to fail, and the show turns his optimism into something surprisingly disruptive. Season 4 is set to return with a <strong>women&#8217;s-team focus<\/strong>, and there are also reports of two more seasons.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you&#8217;re going to Apple TV+ for genre-bending originals with some staying power, both are worth your time.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can stream Slow Horses and Ted Lasso on Apple TV+.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has spent early 2026 leaning harder into originals on Apple TV+. The catalog is smaller than what the biggest streamers carry, and that feels deliberate. Slow Horses and Ted Lasso are the clearest examples of quality-over-quantity approach. The numbers suggest the bet is working. Estimates put Apple TV+ at 85 million users worldwide in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/apple-tv-slow-horses-and-ted-lasso-remain-its-best-shows\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Apple TV+: Slow Horses and Ted Lasso remain its best shows&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9324,"featured_media":377042,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-377043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377044,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377043\/revisions\/377044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377043"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=377043"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=377043"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=377043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}