Peacock and Sky have announced that Eddie Redmayne ’s assassin thriller series The Day of the Jackal will be getting a second season. The news comes a little over a week about the the series premiered and it sounds like it’s doing really well in the ratings.

Eddie Redmayne's new spy thriller series with an 84% Rotten Tomatoes score from critics and a 77% audience score lands a season 2 renewal.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Day Of The Jackal “ranked among the top five original streaming series in the U.S. for its opening weekend, based on preliminary Nielsen data,” and in the U.K. became Sky Atlantic’s best series debut in two years.

Eddie Redmayne's Peacock series "The Day of the Jackal" — an adaptation of the book — is the most egregiously bloated series of the year. [REVIEW]

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

Hollywood actor Eddie Redmayne’s thriller series ‘The Day of the Jackal’ has been renewed for season 2 at Peacock and Sky. To Read Lifestyle Stories in

A contemporary reimagining of the 1971 novel of the same name by Frederick Forsyth, The Day of the Jackal follows an elusive killer-for-hire (Academy Award-winner Eddie Redymane),