The Day of the Jackal

About The Day of the Jackal

An unrivalled and highly elusive lone assassin, the Jackal, makes his living carrying out hits for the highest fee. But following his latest kill, he meets his match in a tenacious British intelligence officer who starts to track down the Jackal in a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase across Europe, leaving destruction in its wake.

The Day of the Jackal is an action-adventure and mystery series made for Sky Atlantic and Sky Showcase. Eddie Redmayne stars as The Jackal, Lashana Lynch as Bianca Pullman, Eleanor Matsuura as Zina Jansone, and Chukwudi Iwuji as Osita Halcrow.

It has run to one season of 10 episodes since November 2024. It is adapted from a novel.

Members will find powerful, hitman, and political assassination in it. In the United States it streams on Peacock Premium and Peacock Premium Plus. It scores 8.2 out of 10 from 1,404 TMDB voters and it carries a TV-MA rating.

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