EXCLUSIVE: The Day of the Jackal producer Carnival Films has promoted Nigel Marchant to Co-Executive Chair. Marchant will now serve alongside founder Gareth Neame running the Universal International Studios -backed drama indie. He will work with Neame shaping Carnival’s strategic direction and overseeing its portfolio of scripted projects. Marchant, who joined Carnival as an EP in 2011 having worked on Downton Abbey and became MD in 2017, is currently exec producing the second season of Sky and Peacock’s The Day of the Jackal starring Eddie Redmayne and Lashana Lynch. Other recent credits include Peacock’s All Her Fault starring Sarah Snook and Lockerbie: A Search for Truth, for which Colin Firth is nominated for a BAFTA at this Sunday’s TV Awards.…