Peacock's 'The Day of the Jackal' is a spy show that is poorly paced and tonally mismanaged, so why is it so popular?

A group of conspirators contracts the Jackal, a professional hitman ... Michael Lonsdale, Alan Badel, Tony Britton and Cyril Cusack.

EXCLUSIVE: The Day of the Jackal seems to have been a sleeper hit for Peacock. The Eddie Redmayne-led political thriller has now become the streamer’s most-watched new original drama series ever ...