As we wait patiently to discover The Jackal’s next move in season two, here are some other shows you’ll be sure to enjoy.

If you’re like us, it will take a while to get over that gripping ending of The Day Of The Jackal – and with season two confirmed to be on the way, we have to make like the assassin and be patient.

But thanks to Sky, there are at least plenty of shows for you to watch and keep your mind off what’s coming next.

If you loved The Day Of The Jackal, and are wanting more gripping thrillers to keep you on the edge of your seat, you’ve come to the right place.

Here are our top recommendations on what to watch next.

Available now on Sky Atlantic

Based on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, The Sympathizer is an espionage thriller and cross-culture satire following the story of the Captain during the final days of the Vietnam War and beyond.

A North Vietnamese spy working in the South Vietnamese Army, he is forced to lie low and start a new life in the United States, living with a group of South Vietnamese refugees who have taken up home in California.

As he continues to spy on those around him he begins to doubt where his loyalties lie as he adjusts to his new life.

The series stars Robert Downey Jr. in multiple roles.

Find out more about The Sympathizer.

Available now on Sky Atlantic

Colin Farrell transforms into this iconic Batman villain in this origin series of how The Penguin came to be the brutal force in Gotham he’s known as.

Compared to The Sopranos and The Godfather in style by critics, The Penguin follows Oz Cobb as he makes his power plays to take control of Gotham’s drugs scene.

Along the way, he befriends streetsmart teen Victor Aguilar, who becomes his henchman as he begins to distribute a drug known as Bliss.

But as his prominence grows, he makes fatal mistakes that put him in the crosshairs of Sofia Falcone, the daughter of kingpin Carmine Falcone who has just been released from Arkham Asylum – and has a score to settle.

Find out more about The Penguin.

Available now on Sky Witness

The Cleaning Lady follows gifted Cambodian-Filipino doctor Thony De La Rosa as she arrives in the United States to seek medical care for her gravely-ill son.

Let down by the system, she outstays her visa and takes on cleaning work to make ends meet. But when she inadvertently witnesses a gangland murder, she enters into a morally-grey agreement with the crime syndicate to help get her son the treatment he needs.

Refusing to be beaten down and marginalised, she uses her cunning and intelligence to forge her own path in the criminal underworld, doing whatever she must to survive.

Find out more about The Cleaning Lady.

Available now on Sky Atlantic

A follow-up series to the smash-hit Dexter, Dexter: New Blood picks up with the serial killing blood-spatter analyst ten years after he faked his death and fled Miami a new life.

Now living under a fake identity, Dexter is living a quiet life as a lumberjack and store owner in Upstate New York.

However, a series of events makes him fear the revival of his homicidal tendencies, with his dead sister appearing to him in visions, and his long-lost son suddenly making a reappearance.

Will his long-held secret finally come rising to the surface?

Available now on Sky Atlantic

If The Jackal’s cunning and cutthroat nature is more your thing, then no one personifies that more than the Roy family in Succession.

Uber-rich and entitled by nature, the family is led by media magnate Logan Roy, whose multi-billion dollar empire Waystar Royco is internationally known.

But his position as the head of the company suddenly seems up for grabs when Logan has a heart attack. With the question of who will replace him when the time comes now arisen, his children Kendall, Shiv and Roman all make their bid to win their daddy’s favour – at whatever cost that means.

Praised as one of the most gripping dramas of recent years, if you haven’t started it, it might be time to see what all the fuss is about. We promise it’s worth it.

Find out more about Succession.

Available now on U&Alibi and NOW

Alex Godman, an investment fund manager in London, has made a legitimate career for himself despite his family’s shady past. He is happy with his girlfriend, Rebecca, and together they are planning to settle down into a quiet life.

However, after a murder, he is pulled back into his father’s attachments to the Russian criminal underworld in order to protect those he loves, soon falling down the hole of money laundering and corruption that organised crime is based in.