PLOT: An unrivaled and highly elusive lone assassin, the Jackal, makes his living carrying out hits for the highest fee. But ...

After an exciting and successful six-episodes, The Day of the Jackal ended its first season on a high note. No one saw the surprising season finale twist coming (I didn't!), but the ending ...

The series opens in Munich with an elderly man muttering to himself. The viewer soon discovers the man is the Jackal (Redmayne) in disguise, set to embark on a bloody task. Sometime later in ...

There wouldn’t have been room for a cougar in Fredrick Forsyth’s 1971 novel, The Day of the Jackal, nor in Fred Zinnemann’s 1973 feature. I hear the title and I think of a meticulous yet ...

By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief When The Day of the Jackal executive producers Gareth Neame and Nigel Marchant took on a TV remake of Frederick Forsyth’s 1971 historical novel, they had a ...

The common wisdom is that Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” burned through all the plot from Margaret Atwood’s 1985 source novel by the end of its first season. But that’s not so.

The Day of the Jackal, starring Eddie Redmayne and Lashana Lynch, is an adaptation of the 1971 novel by Frederick Forsyth, only with a *very* different ending. After 10 episodes of high tension ...

Eddie Redmayne as an ace assassin? To some people, the casting for the new TV adaptation of The Day of the Jackal doesn’t make any sense. The whole point of the killer – the titular “Jackal ...

Can anyone find the Jackal? That’s the question posed in the trailer for The Day of the Jackal, an upcoming assassin series based on Frederick Forsyth’s 1971 novel of the same name.

EXCLUSIVE: The Day of the Jackal seems to have been a sleeper hit for Peacock. The Eddie Redmayne-led political thriller has now become the streamer’s most-watched new original drama series ever ...

If you watch one show this week, it needs to be the season 1 finale of "The Day of the Jackal." This spy thriller has been one of my favorite shows this fall. Only "Slow Horses" season 4 is higher ...

Peacock and Sky have a second season of The Day of the Jackal in their crosshairs. The splashy 10-part adaptation starring Eddie Redmayne and Lashana Lynch has been rating well on both sides of ...