‘Kill Jackie’ Sets Its Sights on October
AMC+ hopes it's found its own version of 'Harry Wild' with 'Kill Jackie.'
Kill Jackie will officially arrive in the Autumn 2026 lineup on AMC+. The eight-part limited series, adapted from Aidan Truhen’s The Price You Pay, went into production in mid-2025 and is being produced by the U.K. arm of Amazon Studios for the British version of Prime Video. However, with mega-star Catherine Zeta-Jones signed on to play the (gender-flipped) protagonist, Jackie Price, it was pretty much assured to eventually find a U.S. streaming home, which it finally secured in July 2026.
While AMC+ may technically have only a fraction of Prime Video’s subscribers here in the U.S., it’s not necessarily a bad thing that Amazon Studios chose to let the project stream there on this side of the pond. As we’ve noted many times, Amazon is absolute rubbish at marketing shows that aren’t automatic hits or cost one billion American dollars to produce. Meanwhile, AMC+’s parent company, AMC Global, is finally getting its house in order, and the flagship service is eager to create its own version of sister streamer Acorn’s successful “mystery series starring an actor who was huge in the 1990s.”
Billed as a “gonzo thriller,” Kill Jackie may indeed be AMC+’s answer to Acorn’s Irish Blood and Harry Wild, taking the gangster/assassin/loveable murderer trope that powers its few hit shows like This City Is Ours and Interview with the Vampire, and giving it the patented Acorn actor twist.
Here’s the series’ synopsis:
Kill Jackie follows Jackie Price who has spent the last twenty years living a quiet, luxurious existence selling fine art while remaining anonymous after escaping a criminal past. Her carefully constructed world is shattered when she discovers that The Seven Demons, a squad of ruthless assassins, have been hired to kill her. Jackie will need to unleash her old instincts and execute a dangerous plan to take down the Demons.
Zeta-Jones (Wednesday) stars as Jackie Price, alongside Daniel Ings (The Gentlemen), Bill Paterson (Fleabag), and Ron Perlman (The Capture).
The four are joined by an extensive cast that includes Sidse Babett Knudsen (Prime Target), Darci Shaw (A Thousand Blows), Raff Law (Masters of The Air), Hattie Hook (My Life Is Murder), Enzo Cilenti (The Crown), Christine Adams (Hijack), Julian Rhind-Tutt (Britannia), Sebastian Armesto (Gangs of London), Julian Barratt (The Great), and Gavin Spokes (Slow Horses).
The supporting cast includes Bamshad Abedi-Amin (The Last Kingdom), Set Sjöstrand (The Wheel of Time), Karlis Arnolds Avots (Soviet Jeans), Jonathan Cake (And Just Like That), Óscar Jaenada (Cantinflas), and Tadashi Ito (Society of the Snow).
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Conor Keane created and co-wrote the TV adaptation with Tom Butterworth, who acts as showrunner. Directors Damon Thomas (Killing Eve) and Dawn Shadforth (I Hate Suzie) split helming duties across the series’ eight episodes. Butterworth is an executive producer alongside Thomas and Zeta-Jones, Dante Di Loreto, and Jeffrey Levine, with Keane as associate producer. Peter Lawson and José Augustin Valdes executive produce for Steel Springs. José Luis Escolar’s Deabru Kalea Filmeak is supervising production in Bizkaia.
Kill Jackie will premiere on AMC+ on Friday, October 2, 2026, and will stream one episode a week on AMC+ through mid-November.
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