{"id":2040700,"date":"2025-09-22T10:21:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T10:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2040700"},"modified":"2025-09-22T10:21:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T10:21:13","slug":"day-of-the-jackal-finds-new-lead-writer-in-lockerbie-a-search-for-truth-scribe-david-harrower-as-creator-ronan-bennett-steps-back-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/day-of-the-jackal-finds-new-lead-writer-in-lockerbie-a-search-for-truth-scribe-david-harrower-as-creator-ronan-bennett-steps-back-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Day of the Jackal\u2019 Finds New Lead Writer in \u2018Lockerbie: A Search for Truth\u2019 Scribe David Harrower as Creator Ronan Bennett Steps Back (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cDay of the Jackal,\u201d the Eddie Redmayne<\/a>-fronted TV spy series that became a ratings smash for both Sky and Peacock last year, has a new lead writer for its second series.<\/p>\n

Ronan Bennett<\/a>, who created the show, produced by Carnival Films<\/a> and a modern day interpretation of Frederick Forsyth<\/a>\u2019s novel and its hit 1973 film adaptation about a globe-trotting assassin and the intelligence officer on his tail, is stepping back from his writing duties due to other commitments but will continue to exec produce.<\/p>\n

For Bennett\u2019s replacement, Carnival<\/a> has turned to David Harrower<\/a>, who created its critically acclaimed \u201cLockerbie: A Search for Truth<\/a>\u201d drama starring Colin Firth<\/a> and chronicling the decades-long quest to find the culprits of 1988\u2019s Pam Am Flight 103 bombing. \u201cLockerbie<\/a>\u201d was also aired by both Sky and Peacock.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Variety recently, Carnival CEO Gareth Neame<\/a> acknowledged that while the first season of the \u201cDay…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cDay of the Jackal,\u201d the Eddie Redmayne-fronted TV spy series that became a ratings smash for both Sky and Peacock last year, has a new lead writer for its second series. Ronan Bennett, who created the show, produced by Carnival Films and a modern day interpretation of Frederick Forsyth\u2019s novel and its hit 1973 film […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2040701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2040700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\u2018Day-of-the-Jackal-Finds-New-Lead-Writer-in-\u2018Lockerbie.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2040700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2040701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2040700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2040700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2040700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}