The Day of the Jackal Renewed

The Sky and Peacock original drama thriller series The Day of the Jackal has been renewed for a second season.

The Day of the Jackal premiered on November 7 on Sky and November 14 on Peacock. In the U.K., it has become the biggest Sky original ever and the biggest launch on Sky in over two years, drawing a record audience of 3 million in its first week. In the Sky Group markets of Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Ireland, the series is the biggest-ever debut for a U.K. Sky original. In the U.S., it ranked number one on Peacock’s top ten TV shows on its platform and was a top five streaming original in the country for its opening weekend.

The series has been sold to nearly 200 territories globally, including SkyShowtime across Europe, Disney+ in Latin America, 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.

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.