I know they will bring the boardroom battles and love triangles of my characters to life – particularly those of my devastatingly handsome hero. Throughout my childhood, my favourite word was ‘Disney’, and by a miraculous coincidence, greater-than-ever Disney are joining forces with an utterly brilliant drama company, Happy Prince, to turn my novel into a TV series. Yet beneath the spectacle and fun, the series brings a 2020s lens to the 1980s, offering a raw exploration of a complicated moment in British history when class, race, sex, wealth, and sexual liberation meant that, for the very privileged few, there were no limits to what they could achieve.Įxecutive producers for the series are Dominic Treadwell-Collins and Alexander Lamb for Happy Prince, which is part of ITV Studios, Felicity Blunt, Laura Wade, Rivals author Jilly Cooper and Director of Scripted Content for Disney+ EMEA Lee Mason.ĮP and Rivals author Jilly Cooper commented: “I am so, so excited. Rivals is a joyously mischievous rollercoaster ride, steamy in its love stories and packed with larger-than-life characters. As tensions rise and rivalries deepen, there are spilled secrets, forged alliances, and snatched liaisons that draw wives, lovers, colleagues, friends, and families into their battle. In the fictional upper-class county of Rutshire, a long-standing rivalry between two powerful men is about to boil over: ex-Olympian, Member of Parliament, and notorious womaniser Rupert Campbell-Black, and his Rutshire neighbour Tony Baddingham, controller of the independent TV franchise Corinium Television. Rivals dives headfirst into the cutthroat world of independent television in 1986, where the shoulder pads are big and ambitions even bigger. The UK original series will premiere on Disney+ in EMEA and Asia Pacific and Star+ in Latin America. Executive produced by Dominic Treadwell-Collins (A Very English Scandal, Holding, EastEnders) and Alexander Lamb (The Bay, We Hunt Together, Ackley Bridge) and written by Treadwell-Collins with Olivier Award-winner Laura Wade (The Riot Club). Rivals is part of the author’s bestselling Rutshire Chronicles, an iconic and beloved piece of British literary history, capturing the joy, drama, excess, and brazen power-grabbing of the affluent elite in 1980s England.
LONDON, UK (25 August 2022) – Disney+ today announced Rivals, a brand-new eight-part series based on the novel by Jilly Cooper. EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS ARE DOMINIC TREADWELL-COLLINS, ALEXANDER LAMB, FELICITY BLUNT, LAURA WADE AND JILLY COOPERĮIGHT-EPISODE SERIES PRODUCED BY HAPPY PRINCE AND COMMISSIONED BY DISNEY+
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