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It's been a great year for new shows on Peacock, capped off by The Day of the Jackal. There's still one more good show coming this year (Laid starring Stephanie Hsu on Dec. 19!), but for the most part, we've seen all we needed to see to share the best Peacock shows of 2024!

We picked the six best Peacock shows of the year and shared the list. If you need something to watch on Peacock and you missed one of these good shows, this is the list for you.

Let's get the list started with the biggest Peacock hit of the year, The Day of the Jackal starring Eddie Redmayne.

The Day of the Jackal The Day Of The Jackal -- Episode 105 -- Pictured: Eddie Redmayne as The Jackal -- (Photo by: Marcell Piti/Carnival Film & Television Limited)

The Day of the Jackal is definitely the most popular show on this list.

New York: Following a sold-out, award-winning Hollywood production of Tripping on Life, legendary, Emmy-winning actress Lin Shaye is bringing her solo show to New York City. Directed by Robert Galinsky, Tripping on Life will begin previews on September 8 before its opening night on Monday, September 18, at 6:30 Pm. It will run through October 8, 2023 at Theatre Row, located at 410 West 42 Street.

Tripping on Life is executive produced by Robert Shaye. Robert is the founder of New Line Cinema and was its CEO for many years. He and his company are responsible for some of the most successful franchises in film history, including “A Nightmare on Elm Street” and “Lord of the Rings.

Lin Shaye is known for her roles in such iconic films as Insidious, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Dumb & Dumber, Kingpin, and There’s Something About Mary, Shaye aims to mesmerize audiences with her unflinching portrayal of a woman...

Hollywood’s biggest night — and the glitzy, glam-filled capper of the annual awards season — unfolded Sunday at Hollywood & Highland’s Dolby Theatre, where the entertainment industry’s biggest and brightest turned out en masse to celebrate (and potentially walk away with a statuette of their very own). By the time Oscar Sunday bowed (a little dark, a touch rainy) there was still plenty left up in the air (though few could predict the wild turn the ceremony eventually took in its final moments).

Ultimately, big nominee “La La Land” walked away with 6 Oscars — including Best Actress and Best Director — though there’s no question the biggest story of the night (of the year? of the Oscars ever?) was an announcing flub from Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, who initially announced that “La La Land” had won Best Picture, before issuing a correction that the accolade actually belonged to Barry Jenkins’ “Moonlight.

Like the rest of the U.S. men's gymnastics team heading to the Rio Olympics this summer, Sam Mikulak gets his fair share of love letters and signs that read "Marry me." But he's not letting it go to his head. "It all just makes me smile," Mikulak, 23, tells People. "It's awesome that they can find the passion through the sport with me. Some aspects of gymnastics don't really get that much attention, and when you have people send you letters it makes you feel important and gives you a sense of purpose so you can go out and train...

After an injury cut short his long road to Olympic redemption, John Orozco penned an emotional Instagram, in which he said his "dreams of Olympic gold were never meant to be." The message, posted on his Instagram on Monday, comes after the 23-year-old elite gymnast's withdrawal from the team due to an Acl injury. Orozco, who re-tore his Achilles in 2015, had been rehabbing for months in preparation for the Olympic trials. When he was named to the team in June he told NBC that he "just couldn't believe it." Orozco, who lost his mother, Damaris, suddenly in 2015, told People previously...

Jon Cryer was on Howard Stern Tuesday morning to promote the paperback edition of his 2015 memoir So That Happened, a book that laid bare a number of juicy details from his life in the Hollywood trenches. After breaking through as the lovable "Duckie" in Pretty in Pink, Cryer's career went into virtual freefall as his next several films -- including the legendary flop Superman IV: The Quest for Peace -- tanked at the box office. His fortunes turned only when he booked the soon-to-be-mega-hit series Two and a Half Men in 2003, but the years in between were filled with major missed opportunities and various other career disappointments -- by his own admission, he worked just three weeks as an actor over a three-year period. So what dirt did he have to spill during the Stern Show sit-down? Below I've rounded up the juiciest portions of the interview, from his Pretty in Pink...

While David Tennant might have spent four years playing one of sci-fi's most iconic characters, he's an actor who has always avoided type-casting thanks to an eclectic range of roles stretching from Shakespeare to "Harry Potter" to the dark detective drama "Broadchurch" — which will begin production on Season 3 next year. And right now, the former "Doctor Who" star is blowing minds on Netflix as Kilgrave, the terrifying villain of "Marvel's Jessica Jones." Read More: Getting Personal With The Stars and Creator of 'Marvel's Jessica Jones' (And What They Know About Season 2) Tennant's general cadence is a calming one, which may be why he's so captivating as Kilgrave. The purple-suited villain's superpower — the ability to make anyone in his presence do whatever he says — makes him incredibly dangerous and unbelievably compelling. Reached via phone, Tennant spoke with Indiewire about how he got involved with the Marvel universe and...

[Warning: Mild spoilers for all of "Jessica Jones" Season 1 below.] With the premiere of "Jessica Jones'" just last month, Netflix and the larger McU continued its "The Defenders" campaign, which will eventually unite Jones with Daredevil, Luke Cage and Iron Fist. Read More: Getting Personal With The Stars and Creator of 'Marvel's Jessica Jones' (And What They Know About Season 2) Though "Daredevil" was well-received for its lushly realized vision of the gritty and violent streets of Hell's Kitchen, its ground-level sister "Jessica Jones" has been heaped with unprecedented praise, especially considering Jones' lesser-known status prior to its release. And while much of the coverage devoted to "Jessica Jones" has celebrated the show's comprehensibility outside of the Marvel Universe, making it easily digestible even if you've never heard of Asgard, the series still works within Marvel's typical story format, albeit...

Getting personal? John Legend showed off wife Chrissy Teigen’s underwear drawer on the Tuesday, Nov. 10, episode of FABLife, in a home video touring her closet. “It’s kind of Paranormal Activity-looking,” the Sports Illustrated model, 29, said of the home video her Grammy-winning husband, 36, shot. “I had John film and send it in this morning. He’s not the greatest narrator.” The audience at the taping of the show, which was featuring its “Crazy Closet Extravaganza,” also got a preview of the pregnant mom’s shoes, bras, and even [...]...

Getting personal via podcast. Kim Kardashian discussed everything from Thanksgiving plans to date nights with husband Kanye West on the newest episode of Andrew Leon Talley’s Vogue podcast on Monday, Nov. 9. “I actually don’t love Thanksgiving food,” the reality star, 35, told Talley on the podcast. “I don’t love it at all. I love the tradition and I love hanging out with the family, but I don’t really love the food so I never get tempted really. But around Christmastime I love the sweets and all [...]...

It’s been a couple months since the last edition of What’s Up Doc? placed Michael Moore’s surprise world premiere of Where To Invade Next at the top of this list and in the meantime much shuffling has taken place and much time has been spent on various new endeavors (namely my Buffalo-based film series, Cultivate Cinema Circle). Finally taking its rightful place at the top, D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hagedus’ Unlocking the Cage is in the midst of being scored by composer James Lavino, according to Lavino’s own personal site. Though the project has been taking shape at its own leisurely pace, I’d expect to see the film making its festival debut in early 2016.

Right behind, the American direct cinema masters is a Texan soon to make his non-fiction debut with Voyage of Time. Just two weeks ago indieWIRE reported that Ennio Morricone, who scored...

The fall festival rush is upon us. Locarno is currently ramping up. Venice has released their line-up and Thom Powers and the Toronto International Film Festival team have dropped a bomb with a previously unannounced new feature from powerhouse docu-provocateur Michael Moore. It is truly a miracle that the production of a film such as Moore’s upcoming Where To Invade Next (see still above) managed to go completely undetected by the filmmaking community until it was literally announced to world premiere at one of the largest film festivals in the world. Programmed as a one of the key films in the Special Presentations section at Tiff, the film sees Moore telling “the Pentagon to ‘stand down’ — he will do the invading for America from now on.” Also announced to premiere at Tiff was Avi Lewis’ This Changes Everything, which has slowly been rising up this list, as well as...

The premiere post-tiff destination (September 20-25th) in the film community and a major leg up for narrative and non-fiction films in development, the Independent Filmmaker Project (Ifp) announced a whopping 140 projects selected for the Project Forum at the upcoming Ifp Independent Film Week. Made up of several sections (Rbc’s Emerging Storytellers program, No Borders International Co-Production Market and Spotlight on Documentaries), we find latest updates from the likes of docu-helmers Doug Block (112 Weddings) and Lana Wilson (After Tiller), and among the narrative items we find headliners in Andrew Haigh (coming off the well received 45 Years), Sophie Barthes (Cold Souls and Madame Bovary), Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty), Lawrence Michael Levine (Wild Canaries), Jorge Michel Grau (We Are What We Are), Eleanor Burke and Ron Eyal (Stranger Things) and new faces in Sundance’s large family in Charles Poekel (Christmas, Again) and Olivia Newman (First Match). Here...

Since bursting on the scene with the throwback slasher Hatchet in 2006, writer/director Adam Green has built a career on doing this his own way. He has written and directed multiple features, produced films for up-and-coming filmmakers, created, written and starred on two seasons of his own sitcom Holliston, co-hosted The Movie Crypt, his own successful weekly filmmaking podcast and much, much more.

Digging Up the Marrow, Green's latest feature, is something totally different: a blend of documentary and narrative that defies any easy categorization. In the film, Green plays himself, a horror movie director with his own independent production company (ArieScope) who is contacted by a man named Decker (Ray Wise, the best he's ever been) claiming that monsters are real and that he knows exactly where to find them -- at an entrance to an underground world he calls "the Marrow."

Digging Up the Marrow will be released...

Getting Personal is a really great website where you can find the most awesome geeky gifts. Particularly focused on comic book and film lovers, male and female, you can find something on there for everyone.

The more film-based gifts on offer are quirky and fun. Most of them give you the opportunity to include your own photos (in the photo reel clock) giving them an old fashioned movie theme. This one gift in particular doubles up as a clock, giving it a touch of something different. Also available is the Film Star Personalised Calendar. Being able to insert your own name or the name of the person you are buying a gift for makes it a little more personal. If they are a fan of old classic Hollywood films, this is a great gift as it is based on the red carpet in black and white. Possibly one of the...

Rihanna's nasty legal battle with her ex-accountants is Getting Personal ... the firm is now trying to drag her mother into the case, but RiRi is telling them to back the hell off. As TMZ first reported, Rihanna sued her ex-accounting firm, claiming it mismanaged her cash and took above-standard commission (22%) -- costing her millions. But the firm is adamant they did nothing wrong and says any loss in coin was Rihanna's own fault. In the...

Exclusive: After 14 years and three series at 20th Century Fox TV, Greg Garcia is moving to CBS TV Studios. In the biggest overall deal for a writer so far this year, the My Name Is Earl and Raising Hope creator has signed a four-year pact with CBS TV Studios to develop new projects. As part of the agreement, he will remain as showrunner on Fox’s Raising Hope for its upcoming third season while working on development for CBS Studios. Garcia started off at 20th TV with a stint as a writer on the short-lived Getting Personal before creating his first series for the studio, the 2000 multi-camera comedy Yes, Dear, which ran on CBS for six seasons. (Garcia co-created the series with Alan Kirschenbaum.) Through that series, Garcia worked with CBS TV Studios president David Stapf in his previous role as head of current programming at CBS. “Greg is truly...

Childhood Rupert Alexander Grint was born August 24, 1988 in Watton-at-Stone, Hertfordshire which is roughly 30 miles north of London. Born to parents Jo and Nigel Grint, Rupert was the first, with four siblings following him. Rupert's parents picked his name out of and hat, the first name drawn was Rupert. Rupert meaning, "bright fame" according to it's Germanic origin. His mother Jo (nee Parson) was a housewife while his father Nigel Grint was a former race car driver who gave up the track to collect and sell memorabilia and be close to his family. Following the birth of Rupert, his parents, had four more children. James was born in 1990, Georgina was born in 1993, Samantha was born in 1996 and the baby Charlotte was born in 1998. As a child Rupert loved to play with yo-yo's and when he wasn't playing with them he was on stage performing. Rupert really enjoyed theater and he appeared...