If you're craving an exhilarating TV series lately, Sky and Peacock may have what you're looking for. Titled The Day of the Jackal, this series is a television adaptation of the 1973 movie of the same name. It features Eddie Redmayne as a cunning contract killer known only as the Jackal, who ends up on the radar of intelligence agencies around the globe.
The show is set to premiere this November on the 7th and includes Lashana Lynch in a pivotal role. She plays a determined British intelligence officer assigned to take down Redmayne's character. The storyline sets up a promising narrative that you can glimpse through its trailer and synopsis below.
A highly skilled and elusive lone assassin, the Jackal earns his keep by accepting hits with hefty price tags. However, after his latest mission, he encounters his rival in a relentless British intelligence officer who initiates a gripping pursuit across Europe, causing chaos along the way.