With the first episode reaching a U.K. audience of 4.5 million after 26 days, the spy thriller — starring Eddie Redmayne and Lashana Lynch — is the most popular new series to ever launch on Sky.

Peacock’s The Day of the Jackal brings Frederick Forsyth’s iconic 1971 thriller into the modern era. Starring Eddie Redmayne, ...

Inspired by Frederick Forsyth’s iconic novel, The Day of The Jackal TV series is reaching its finale with just three episodes ...

Eddie Redmayne and Lashana Lynch star in Peacock's TV adaptation of the 1970s classic 'The Day of the Jackal’ to thrilling ...

Still, you do get Eddie Redmayne as the world's best assassin, Lashana Lynch in prime Bond mode, and some killer set pieces ...

An earlier 1973 film adaptation by director Fred Zinnemann (“From Here to Eternity” “A Man for all Seasons”) starred the ...

The Peacock and Sky dramatic series “The Day of the Jackal” was renewed for a second season, the streamer and broadcaster ...

But in 1971, Frederick Forsyth's debut about an expert assassin's bid to kill French president Charles de Gaulle hit the shelves, and then the film version starring Edward Fox was released in 1973.

Georges Watin, who saw himself as the inspiration for Frederick Forsyth's Jackal and was known as 'The Limping One' due to a disability, was one of several right wing extremists who fired more ...

“It means the phone rings about once,” Forsyth replies. “To put it brutally, if they had made it and called it something else, I couldn’t have sued for plagiarism.” Frederick Forsyth at ...