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Rivals FIRST LOOK: David Tennant shoulders a rifle as he joins co-stars Aidan Turner and Emily Atack in Disney+ adaptation of Jilly Cooper's romance novel


The racy eight-part series is based on Jilly Cooper's raunchy 1988 novel, and follows the cutthroat world of independent television in 1986.

The show will focus on the tense rivalry between Rupert and Tony as well as the drama, excess, and shocking antics of the power-grabbing social elite of 1980s England (pictured L-R Alex Hassell, Danny Dyer, Jilly Cooper, David Tennant, Aidan Turner) Finally, Bella Maclean is pictured sitting on a couch in wooden living room with her pet dog, playing Taggie O'Hara, Declan's tender-hearted yet strong-willed eldest daughter, who becomes an unexpected temptation for Rupert The streaming service continues that it 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'.

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