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Rivals episode 1 recap: a steamy welcome to Rutshire

Rivals episode 1 sees lust and power going to everyone's heads in 80s rural Britain.

WhatToWatch

Rivals review – even the naked tennis scene is a triumph

Packed with sex, excess and fabulous awfulness, this adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s 80s bonkbuster starts as gloriously as it means to go on. Champagne all round!

The Guardian - UK

How to watch 'Rivals' online – stream Jilly Cooper TV show from anywhere

The best-selling Dame Jilly Cooper novel is adapted for TV with an all-star cast. Here's how to watch 'Rivals' online and from anywhere in the world.

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EXCLUSIVE: Rivals star Alex Hassell on why playing iconic playboy Rupert Campbell-Black is such a big deal

Rivals star Alex Hassell on what to expect from the steamy saga based on Dame Jilly Cooper’s famous novel

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Tories, bonking and naked tennis: David Tennant and the Rivals cast on bringing Jilly Cooper’s novel to screen

It’s been almost 40 years since Jilly Cooper released her scandalous, sex-filled novel ‘Rivals’, and now it’s finally been adapted for the small screen. Ellie Muir speaks to the cast about playing posh, and showrunner Dominic Treadwell-Collins tells her about the love letters he sent the author to try to…

The Independent UK

Rivals cast: who’s who in the raunchy drama based on Dame Jilly Cooper’s novel

The Rivals cast features David Tennant, Alex Hassell and Aidan Turner. Here’s our guide to who’s who…

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Lock up your TV remote! Why Jilly Cooper’s Rivals was guaranteed to be joyous television

Cooper’s novel is full of wisdom, wit and emotional intelligence. When put on screen, even the gratuitous sex feels oddly wholesome

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Rivals: who plays who in Jilly Cooper's new bonkbuster?

The Disney+ adaptation of Jilly Cooper's best-selling novel boasts a who’s who of British stars

Evening Standard

Rivals on Disney+ review: phwoar – this gloriously trashy and arch show is the epitome of guilty pleasure TV

The swagger and the sheer star wattage here make up for a sporadic lack of pace and a complete lack of subtlety. Is it fun? Absolutely

Evening Standard

‘Are you good in bed?’ Jilly Cooper on horses, lefties and which fictional character she would like to sleep with

As her much-loved story Rivals is turned into a lavish Disney+ production, the author answers questions from Observer readers and famous fans including David Tennant, Caitlin Moran and Gillian Anderson

The Guardian - UK

New Disney Plus show Rivals looks like a curious cross between Succession and The Gentlemen, and it's releasing in October

Disney's new star-studded drama series, which stars Doctor Who alumnus David Tennant, will arrive in mid-October.

TechRadar

Jilly Cooper's racy Disney+ show Rivals gets release date

There’s plenty of bare skin on show

Evening Standard

Jilly Cooper is made a dame in new year honours list

Bestselling author and journalist is ‘incredibly bowled over’ to receive DBE

The Guardian - UK

Tackle! review – Jilly Cooper takes on the beautiful game

The octogenarian writer brings her unique brand of sexy silliness to the story of a League One football team, with mixed results

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‘Sex, puns and labradors’: How Olivia Laing fell for Jilly Cooper’s bonkbusters

Sneaking a teenage peak at her stepmother’s copies of Riders and Rivals opened the door to a world of glamour and romance for the author of Crudo and The Lonely City

The Guardian - UK

Bonk hard and start a business! 10 life lessons I learned from Jilly Cooper

The queen of bonkbusters is taking everyone back to Rutshire with her new book, Tackle! You won’t learn much about football – but you will learn a lot about horses

The Independent UK

Jilly Cooper thinks very little of modern men, including ‘anti-glamour’ Stanley Tucci

Queen of the bonkbuster is known for her preference for stereotypically ‘macho’ men

The Independent UK

Jilly Cooper explains why modern men are not attractive

Queen of the bonkbuster is known for her preference for stereotypically ‘macho’ men

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Shopping, showjumping and a notorious goldfish sex scene: the bonkers world of the bonkbuster

In May 2023, Conservative British weekly magazine The Spectator ran a piece revealing the “guilty pleasures” of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Allegedly, he likes listening to the music of Michael Bublé, watching Emily in Paris – and reading the novels of Jilly Cooper.

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak says racy Jilly Cooper novels offer him ‘escapism’

The Prime Minister is a fan of the raunchy Rutshire Chronicles series of books.

The Guardian - UK

Does Rishi Sunak really love reading Jilly Cooper – and what does that say about him?

The racy novels hit on a winning formula: our fascination with the intimate lives of the wealthy

WhatToWatch

Rivals: release date, recaps, cast, plot, trailer and everything we know about the Jilly Cooper adaptation

Rivals on Disney Plus is an adaptation of the famous Jilly Cooper novel with David Tennant, Aidan Turner, Alex Hassell, Katherine Parkinson and Danny Dyer among the cast.

Wales Online

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

The series will star a host of famous faces including David Tennant, Aidan Turner, Danny Dyer and Emily Atack.

The Guardian - UK

Top 10 cads in fiction

Dangerously handsome young men carelessly ruining women’s lives are a rarer breed than they were. But their hatefulness still makes compelling reading

The Guardian - UK

Jilly Cooper bestseller Rivals set for eight-part TV adaptation

The second novel in Cooper’s Rutshire Chronicles – following Britain’s sex and power-mad elites of the 1980s – will have a ‘2020s lens’ in a new Disney+ series

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