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Disney+’s ‘Rivals’: The Inside Story Of How A Producer Overcame The “Snobbery” Of British TV To Bring Jilly Cooper To Screen
Disney+'s 'Rivals' has been explained by Dominic Treadwell-Collins, who talked Jilly Cooper, David Tennant, and getting the show to screen.
Ironically, given his views on commissioner snobbery, he felt himself taken more seriously by the TV community once he left EastEnders and worked with Russell T Davies on the BBC-Amazon’s Emmy-winning A Very English Scandal, while he also co-wrote Graham Norton adaptation Holding for ITV. David Tennant plays Baddingham, the uppity nouveau riche owner of Corinium, Aidan Turner is given a rare opportunity to showcase his native Irish accent as star presenter Declan O’Hara, and Danny Dyer, who worked with Treadwell-Collins on EastEnders, is Freddie Jones, a sensitive-soul millionaire type whose wife doesn’t give him his due. Ali & Ava star Claire Rushbrook, meanwhile, who is known for movies like Mike Leigh’s Secrets & Lies, plays “the poshest person on the show,” according to Treadwell-Collins, impressing as Baddingham’s wife Lady Monica.
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