Sky and Peacock Original drama thriller series “The Day of the Jackal” has been renewed for a second season. The series has sold to almost 200 territories globally, including SkyShowtime across Europe; Disney+ in Latin America; Amazon Prime Video in France; Corus in Canada; TVNZ in New Zealand; JioCinema in India; WOWOW in Japan; Wavve in South Korea; Showmax and M-Net in Sub-Saharan Africa; OSN in the Middle East and North Africa; and Foxtel in Australia.
In the UK, “The Day of the Jackal” has become the biggest Sky Original ever and the biggest launch on Sky in over two years, drawing a record audience of 3m in its first week. In Sky Group markets Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Ireland the series is the biggest ever debut for a UK Sky Original. In the US it ranked #1 on Peacock’s Top 10 TV Shows on its platform and was a Top 5 streaming original in the US for its opening weekend (according to preliminary Nielsen data). In Australia the series has become the highest rated new series launch of this year for Fox Showcase.
Season one of “The Day of the Jackal” premiered on November 7 on Sky and November 14 on Peacock. It features executive producer and star Eddie Redmayne, co-executive producer and star Lashana Lynch and Úrsula Corberó. The series comes from executive producers Gareth Neame and Nigel Marchant (Carnival Films), writer and executive producer Ronan Bennett, executive producer and director Brian Kirk, executive producer Sam Hoyle (Sky Studios), executive producer Sue Naegle and co-executive producer Marianne Buckland (Carnival Films).
“The Day of the Jackal” comes from Carnival Films, which is part of Universal International Studios, a division of Universal Studio Group. NBCUniversal Global TV Distribution handles international sales of the series.
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