The Spy Franchise That Inspired ‘Reacher’ Will Officially Not Return in 2026

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The Spy Franchise That Inspired ‘Reacher’ Will Officially Not Return in 2026
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Apple TV has had plenty of popular shows blossom in the last few years, but none have the same output level as Slow Horses, the hit spy thriller show starring Gary Oldman and Jack Lowden. The first season of Slow Horses began streaming in 2022, and later that same year, the series returned for Season 2. Only one new season was released in 2023 and 2024 — which is still a more impressive turnaround time than most shows in the modern streaming era — but there was also a new season last year and this year, with Seasons 7 and 8 expected to be released in 2027 and 2028. Slow Horses has become so popular in the last few years that it’s forced other platforms like Netflix to settle on shows such as Black Doves as a sort of replacement for the series.

Meanwhile on Peacock, the show closest to scratching the Slow Horses itch is The Day of the Jackal, which aired its first season near the end of 2024. The Day of the Jackal is based on the novel of the same name by Frederick Forsyth, whose writings also helped inspire another iconic spy/action book series, Reacher, which was adapted into a series on Prime Video starring Alan Ritchson. Peacock wasted no time renewing The Day of the Jackal for Season 2, and while there was optimism at one point that the show would return before the end of the year, this is confirmed to no longer be the case. Peacock has explicitly confirmed that The Day of the Jackal Season 2 won’t return until 2027, meaning there will be a full two-year gap between seasons.

Four action series. One of them is built around exactly the way you
handle pressure, people, and a room that has just gone very quiet. Here is where you would survive
the trilogy, and probably headline it.

You are precision with a grudge. You don’t posture, you don’t
escalate, and you don’t warn anybody twice. That is exactly why the people who know you are
so careful never to be the reason you start.

  • The Wick films run on discipline: an underworld with actual etiquette, a hero who
    honours every rule of it, and a world that unravels the instant someone breaks one
    against him.
  • You share that quality. You are extraordinarily reasonable right up to the line, and
    then completely immovable past it.
  • Focus, commitment and sheer will. You’d be the one carrying grief through three sequels
    and turning it into technique rather than noise.
  • People wouldn’t call you dangerous. They’d say your name quietly and let that do the
    work.

You understand the thing the whole franchise is secretly about:
the cars are spectacular, but the crew is the point. You collect people, you keep them, and
you’d drive through a building for any one of them.

  • This series went from street racing to orbit without ever changing its actual subject,
    because loyalty scales and plot doesn’t have to.
  • You have the same instinct. You build a family out of whoever turns up, and then you
    defend it past the point of reason.
  • You’d thrive here because the franchise rewards exactly your strengths: warmth, nerve,
    an absolute refusal to leave anyone behind, and a relaxed relationship with physics.
  • The mission can wait. The barbecue cannot.

You over-prepare and then take the dangerous part yourself
anyway. It looks like control, but it’s really responsibility. You have never worked out how
to ask somebody else to carry the risk.

  • This is the franchise of the plan that collapses on schedule: the team, the mask, the
    rooftop, and the one person sprinting flat out because sprinting is all that’s left.
  • You share that refusal to accept an outcome. Told the odds, you treat them as an
    administrative error.
  • You’d thrive here because these films reward competence and loyalty in equal measure.
    The mission matters, but nobody on the team gets left on the wrong side of a door.
  • Some people delegate the cliff. You have never once been that person.

You are not the most trained person in the building, the best
equipped, or the one anybody would have picked. You are simply the one still standing at the
end, which turns out to be the only qualification that matters.

  • Die Hard invented the modern action hero by making him mortal: outgunned, out-planned,
    bleeding, and extremely funny about it.
  • You share that stubbornness. Adversity doesn’t make you noble, it makes you sarcastic,
    and then it makes you unstoppable.
  • You’d thrive here because these films reward improvisation and nerve over preparation,
    and you’ve never had the luxury of preparing anyway.
  • You didn’t want any of this. You just declined to be the person who let it happen.

Here’s What We Know About ‘The Day of the Jackal’ Season 2

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Ronan Bennett, who is also the showrunner of MobLand, served as the lead writer and showrunner on The Day of the Jackal Season 1, but things will look different in Season 2. Bennett has stepped down from his showrunning duties in Season 2, though he remains involved as an executive producer. David Harrower, who recently served as a writer on the Colin Firth-led series, Lockerbie: A Search for the Truth, will take over as the lead showrunner for The Day of the Jackal Season 2.

Check out the first season of The Day of the Jackal on Peacock and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Season 2.

The Day of the Jackal

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