A new Disney+ series is set to be filmed in a high-end studio opening in Bristol this week. The studio called TBY2 is The Bottle Yard's second studio in Bristol, a premium facility owned and run by Bristol City Council.
The first booking for the new facility will be for an eight-part saga called Rivals, based on the bestselling novel by Jilly Cooper, produced for Disney+ by Happy Prince, part of ITV Studios. It is part of the author’s bestselling Rutshire Chronicles focusing on the affluent elite of 1980s England. The UK original series will premiere on Disney+ in EMEA and Asia Pacific and Star+ in Latin America.
Rivals is set in the fictional upper-class county of Rutshire focusing on a long-standing rivalry between two powerful men that is about to boil over. Ex-Olympian, Member of Parliament, and womaniser Rupert Campbell-Black, and his Rutshire neighbour Tony Baddingham, controller of the independent TV franchise Corinium Television.
