THE DAY OF THE JACKAL
Premieres with first five episodes on Thursday, November 7 at 8.30pm On Demand and then one each week
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Ahighly skilled and elusive assassin, a relentless British intelligence officer determined to bring him down, and a globe-trotting game of cat and mouse: if that doesn’t have you hooked on The Day of the Jackal, the calibre of its headline star certainly will.
Oscar-winner Eddie Redmayne (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them) leads an all-star cast, featuring BAFTA-winner Lashana Lynch (No Time to Die), Charles Dance (Game of Thrones) and Úrsula Corberó (Money Heist) in a modern reimagining of Frederick Forsyth’s bestselling novel of the same name.
Forsyth’s story, published in 1971, is a politically charged historical thriller, partly inspired by a real assassination attempt on…