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Ellie Iorizzo & Jonathon Manning

Disney+ announces new series based on Jilly Cooper's raunchy novel Rivals

David Tennant and Danny Dyer are among the British stars set to appear in a new Disney+ series. The streaming service is in the midst of filming the new series, which is based on the raunchy novel Rivals, by Jilly Cooper.

Rivals was originally published in 1988 as one of 10 novels in Cooper's Rutshire Chronicles series. It will be turned into an eight-part series starring Alex Hassall as Rupert Campbell-Black.

Rupert, a former Olympian, MP and womaniser, will lock horns with Tony Baddington, the boss of independent TV franchise Corinium Television, who will be played by Doctor Who star David Tennant.

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