David Tennant squares up to Aidan Turner and Alex Hassell in Rivals trailer
The series is coming to Disney Plus next month.
Upcoming Disney Plus series Rivals boasts arguably one of the best casts of the year – and now fans have been treated to their best look yet at the show thanks to a brand new teaser.
The first full-length trailer to be released ahead of the premiere next month, it features a scene in which David Tennant squares up to Aidan Turner and Alex Hassell, and also shows some previously unseen characters from the 'Cooperverse'.
Set to The Communards hit Don’t Leave Me This Way, we also get a close look at some of the backstabbing, squabbling and scandal that looks set to play a major role in the series.
You can watch it in full below:
It was confirmed last month that the show – which is Based on Dame Jilly Cooper's novel – will be released on Disney Plus on Friday 18th October, so there's less than a month to wait before we can feast our eyes on what looks to be one of the TV events of 2024.
According to Disney Plus, the star-studded eight-part drama is packed "full of romantic entanglements, dastardly deals, sex and wit".
A synopsis teases: "Set against the backdrop of the drama, excess, and shocking antics of the power-grabbing social elite of 1980s England, Rivals delves headfirst into the ruthless world of independent television in 1986."
Rivals stars Hassell (The Boys) as Rupert Campbell-Black, Tennant (Doctor Who) as Lord Tony Baddingham and Turner (Poldark) as Declan O’Hara, while there also key roles for Bella Maclean, Danny Dyer (EastEnders), Katherine Parkinson (Humans), Nafessa Williams (Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody), Emily Atack (The Inbetweeners) and many more.
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Appearing on The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show last week, Tennant was quizzed about the new adaptation, with stand-in host Scott Mills saying of Cooper's novel: "It's quite racy."
Tennant responded: "It's a little racy, sure."
In an interview with The Times, writer and executive producer Dominic Treadwell-Collins previously said of the series: "We’ve been equal opportunities in our nudity. There’s a willy for every pair of t**s."
He added: "Jilly comes across as fluffy and lovely – but she’s got a steely eye when it comes to the sexism, the homophobia, the racism, class."
Rivals will be released on Disney Plus on 18th October 2024. Sign up to Disney Plus now for £4.99 per month or £79.90 for a full year.
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Patrick Cremona is the Senior Film Writer at Radio Times, and looks after all the latest film releases both in cinemas and on streaming. He has been with the website since October 2019, and in that time has interviewed a host of big name stars and reviewed a diverse range of movies.
