Rivals

Rivals
Premiere	October 18, 2024
Airs	streaming
Creator	Dominic Treadwell-Collins & Laura Wade
Network/Provider	Disney+
Style	60-minute drama
Company	Happy Prince
Seasons	1
Episodes	8 (through season 1) (List of episodes)
Status	Currently in limbo, has not yet been renewed or cancelled.
Origin	UK
Watch Now	Disney+

Rivals is a brand-new eight-part series based on the novel by Jilly Cooper. Rivals is part of the author's bestselling Rutshire Chronicles, an iconic and beloved piece of British literary history, capturing the joy, drama, excess, and brazen power-grabbing of the affluent elite in 1980s England.

Rivals dives headfirst into the cutthroat world of independent television in 1986, where the shoulder pads are big and ambitions even bigger. In the fictional upper-class county of Rutshire, a long-standing rivalry between two powerful men is about to boil over: ex-Olympian, Member of Parliament, and notorious womaniser Rupert Campbell-Black, and his Rutshire neighbour Tony Baddingham, controller of the independent TV franchise Corinium Television. As tensions rise and rivalries deepen, there are spilled secrets, forged alliances, and snatched liaisons that draw wives, lovers, colleagues, friends, and families into their battle.

It is a joyously mischievous rollercoaster ride, steamy in its love stories and packed with larger-than-life characters. Yet beneath the spectacle and fun, the series 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.

Seasons

Season		Premiere				#
Hulu
Season One	October 18, 2024					8

In-Depth

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DVD Releases

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