What Will Happen In The Day Of The Jackal Season 2?

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A reprise is on the way

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Eddie Redmayne and Lashana Lynch have captivated millions of viewers across the globe with their cat and mouse chase in The Day of the Jackal. Coming to a deadly end last night (12 December), our attention is naturally turning to the future. Is this the end of the road? What will happen next? Luckily for fans, the spy thriller has been renewed for a second season. Here’s everything we know so far.

Will There Be The Day Of The Jackal Season 2?

Yes, The Day Of The Jackal has been renewed for a second season, thanks to the Sky original series’ huge success. In the UK, the thriller has grown into Sky’s biggest launch in more than two years, with viewers in Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Ireland, Australia and the US also tuning in in droves.

Season 1 premiered on 7 November on Sky and on 14 November in the US on Peacock – and has garnered rave reviews ever since.

Lashana Lynch as Bianca & Nick Blood as Vince in The Day of the Jackal season 1 finale. (Carnival Film/Sky)

Season 1 Ending Explained

So where did the season finale leave us? Spoilers ahead…

The entirety of The Day Of The Jackal is a cat and mouse chase between the titular assassin (Redmayne) and MI6 agent Bianca (Lynch). In the season finale, they finally meet – but Bianca doesn’t make it out alive. It’s a shocking twist, with Frederick Forsyth’s original novel seeing deputy commissioner Claude Lebel best the Jackal in a shootout, and later attend the assassin’s funeral.

As Bianca closes in on the Jackal, tracking down his secret Spanish family home, tensions are high – but we’re sure she’ll trump him. But when she and Vince (Nick Blood) arrive, they find a distraught Nuria (Úrsula Corberó) rushing to leave the house with her infant son, presumably escaping her killer husband. When the Jackal arrives home, he is horrified to discover his wife has left – and we think this unexpected turn of events will unsettle the killer, giving Bianca and Vince the upper hand. Not so. The spies gun down the Jackal’s troublemaking brother-in-law, Alvaro (Jon Arias), alerting the Jackal to their presence. He hides himself in his weapons locker: a secret room in his walk-in wardrobe, disguised by a two-way mirror. Bianca surveys the room, coming agonisingly close to catching the mouse – but she fails to detect his hiding spot. Returning downstairs, she settles with exposing the assassin’s identity if she can’t kill him. But the sneaky Jackal has other plans: he ambushes Bianca and Vince, shooting – and presumably killing – both. The series ends with the Jackal inspecting the scene: Biana is totally still on the floor, blood seeping from the bullet wound in her chest and dripping from her mouth.

Eddie Redmayne as The Jackal in The Day of the Jackal season 1 finale. (Carnival Film/Sky)

What Will Happen In Season 2?

With Bianca dead but the Jackal still kicking, we think The Day Of The Jackal season 2 will introduce a new team to track down the illicit assassin. In his own life, the Jackal needs to track down his wife, Nuria. Meanwhile, a new plot is introduced with business woman Zina Jansone (Eleanor Matsuura), who suggests the Jackal seek revenge on her former employer, Timothy Winthrop (Charles Dance), for his failure to pay for the hit on Ulle Dag Charles (Khalid Abdalla). So this definitely isn’t the end of the road for the Jackal.

Is It Based On A Book?

The Day of the Jackal is based on Frederick Forsyth’s 1971 novel of the same name – with plenty of creative liberty. The characters are loosely based on Forsyth’s, but the central plot and ending of the Sky original series are different to the book. Likewise, Forsyth never wrote a sequel to The Day of the Jackal, so the second TV series will venture into entirely new ground.

The Day Of The Jackal Season 2 Release Date

No news just yet on when we will get to see The Day Of The Jackal season 2, but we think it’s a long way off. The project was originally announced in November 2022, with season 1 launching just under two years later. Filming took place across Europe in 2023. If we’re lucky, The Day Of The Jackal season 2 will launch in winter 2025/26.