If we’ve learned anything from The Day of the Jackal (Sky Atlantic, Thursday, December 12, 9pm) as it lumbers towards its ...

A British action drama and spy thriller, The Day of The Jackal is inspired by the novel of the same name authored by ...

Full disclosure, as good as "The Day of the Jackal" is, unseating "Slow Horses" as the spy thriller supreme is going to be a tall order. As relatively weak as season 4 was, the season ended on a high ...

If season 2 were to follow the same pattern, and production were to kick off in early 2025, we could be looking at a 2026 ...

The actor, who plays the elusive hitman in the new series ‘The Day of the Jackal,’ talks to EL PAÍS about training with a ...

I don’t kill anyone who doesn’t deserve it,” says Sam (Ben Whishaw), the self-described “triggerman”—hit man—in the new ...

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

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

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.

Frederick Forsyth – author of The Day of the Jackal, former spy, master of the thriller genre – sure can tell a story. He has me gripped with this one, describing how the dashing multi ...

Based on the novel by Frederick Forsyth, Ronan Bennett's series sees the actor slip into the shoes of a virtuoso assassin.