Aidan Turner Joins Cast of Rivals
posted: March 21st, 2023 in Career
Aidan Turner, David Tennant, and Danny Dyer are joining the ensemble cast for Disney+’s adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s “Rivals”.
The project will be Filming April 2023 at Bottle Yard Studios in Bristol UK
Set in the fictional upper-class county of Rutshire, Rivals dives headfirst into the cutthroat world of independent television in 1986 when a long-standing rivalry between two powerful men is about to boil over: ex-Olympian, Member of Parliament and notorious womanizer Rupert Campbell-Black (Alex Hassell) and his neighbor Tony Baddingham (Tennant), controller of the independent TV franchise Corinium Television.
Aidan Turner plays TV presenter Declan O’Hara, a fierce intellectual with an even fiercer temper who is wooed to Corinium from the BBC, while EastEnders actor Dyer is Freddie Jones, a self-made electrics millionaire.
Read more here: Rivals Info on Deadline.com