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 ...

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.

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.

Peacock's original series adaptation of Frederick Forsyth's novel is much more faithful than the previous movies.

"The Day of the Jackal," Peacock and Sky’s original thriller starring Eddie Reymayne, has been greenlit for a second season.

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 ...

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

“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 ...

It was only when the team at Carnival Films decided they would fast forward The Day of the Jackal to the present day that things started getting interesting. Carnival bosses Gareth Neame and Nigel ...

Peacock's new 10-episode series puts a modern spin on British author Frederick Forsyth's best-selling 1971 thriller of the ...

“It’s Frederick Forsyth’s story, which was brilliant, and Fred Zinnemann’s direction. The two together make a classic film,” he says, as if it’s all as simple as that. The original ...