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‘Rivals’: Disney+ Teases First-Look At David Tennant & Aidan Turner In Jilly Cooper Bonkbuster

Disney+ is building the buzz for its Jilly Cooper adaptation 'Rivals' by teasing a first look at the series, which stars David Tennant & Aidan Turner.

Disney+ is building buzz for its Jilly Cooper adaptation Rivals by teasing first-look images of the eight-part series.

Rivals is part of Cooper's bestselling Rutshire Chronicles and is set against the backdrop of the excess and antics of the power-grabbing social elite of 1980s England. Scroll on for more images.

Rivals chronicles the cutthroat world of independent television in 1986 and the long-standing rivalry of ex-Olympian, MP, and notorious womanizer Rupert Campbell-Black (Alex Hassell) and his neighbor Tony Baddingham (David Tennant), controller of Corinium Television.