The Foxtel Group has announced the hit drama series The Day of the Jackal has been renewed for a second season.
The drama is available to watch in Australia for subscribers to Binge or Foxtel.
The announcement comes just as the streaming platform Binge has unveiled a massive half-price Black Friday deal.
An unrivalled and highly elusive lone assassin, the Jackal, (Eddie Redmayne) makes his living carrying out hits for the highest fee.
TV Guide: The Day of the Jackal
Global Hit: Season one of The Day of the Jackal stars Academy Award, Tony and BAFTA winner Eddie Redmayne, BAFTA Award winner Lashana Lynch and Úrsula Corberó.
Following its 7 November launch, the series has been a breakout success on Binge, becoming the #1 new series launch of the year, with audiences continuing to grow each week. It is also the biggest new scripted series launch on Foxtel this year.
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 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).
Synopsis: In Season 1, the Jackal, (Eddie Redmayne) is an unrivalled and highly elusive lone assassin, who makes his living carrying out hits for the highest fee. But following his latest kill, he meets his match in a tenacious British intelligence officer (Lashana Lynch) who starts to track down the Jackal in a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase across Europe, leaving destruction in its wake.
The series also stars Úrsula Corberó (Money Heist) as Nuria, someone at the heart of The Jackal’s personal life, unaware of who he truly is.
Production notes: Season one 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).
Carnival Films is part of Universal International Studios, a division of Universal Studio Group. NBCUniversal Global TV Distribution handles international sales of the series. The Day of the Jackal has been a global hit with viewers and has been sold to nearly 200 territories around the world.
Lashana Lynch
Series Details
Writer / Showrunner / Executive Producer: Ronan Bennett”
Executive Producers: Gareth Neame and Nigel Marchant (Carnival Films), Sam Hoyle (Sky Studios), Sue Naegle
Executive Producer / Director: Brian Kirk
Executive Producer / Star: Eddie Redmayne
Co-Executive Producer / Star: Lashana Lynch
Co-Executive Producer: Marianne Buckland
Consulting Producer: Frederick Forsyth
Principal Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Lashana Lynch, Úrsula Corberó
Supporting Cast: Charles Dance, Richard Dormer, Chukwudi Iwuji, Lia Williams, Khalid Abdalla, Eleanor Matsuura, Jonjo O’Neill, Nick Blood, Sule Rimi, Florisa Kamara
Produced by: Carnival Films, which is part of Universal International Studios, a division of Universal Studio Group
Distribution: NBCUniversal Global TV Distribution
Binge Black Friday bargain
The Foxtel Group streaming platform Binge has just dropped a Black Friday price reduction.
The special price for a 12-month subscription is $4.99 monthly. This represents a price drop of 50% and is available to new and returning customers only.
The deal will remain open until December 2, 2024, and it includes the drama The Day of the Jackal plus much more.
The special price is available on the Basic tier only which means viewers are served ads and are limited to only one screen at a time.
The Standard and Premium tiers are not discounted during this Black Friday window.
Viewers get access to 25,000 hours of premium drama, comedy, reality, documentaries, lifestyle, movies and more.
Binge is also now giving viewers access to select major sporting events at no extra charge.