Rivals
Updated with S2 info 14 Jun 2025
Aidan Turner.. Declan O’Hara
Platform: Disney+ (UK and International) and Hulu (US)
S1 Info
S1 Filming: April 2023 through summer of 2023.
S1 Release Date: 18 Oct 2024
Episodes: 8
Producers: Dominic Treadwell-Collins’ indie Happy Prince,
Writers: Dominic Treadwell-Collins is also EPing and writing with Laura Wade.
Executive Producer: Dominic Treadwell-Collins and Alexander Lamb
Lead director: Elliot Hegarty
Series Producer: Eliza Mellor (Poldark)
S2 Info
S2 Filming: June 2025 – March 2026
Episodes: 12
Release Date: TBA
Gallery:Rivals Gallery on ATNews
Locations:
- Gloucestershire – particularly Corsham, Bristol and Bath.
- Monmouthshire – Woodbank House
- Corsham – Neston Park
- Tetbury – Chavenage House
- Wraxall, Somerset – Battleaxes pub
- Bristol – Harbour Hotel
Rivals is part of iconic British author Cooper’s bestselling Rutshire Chronicles and is set against the backdrop of the drama, excess and shocking antics of the power-grabbing social elite of 1980s England.
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 is 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.
Source: Deadline.com
RIVALS News:
- Somerset pub used as film location for racy new TV drama Rivals
- Danny Dyer says new series of Disney+ Rivals has so many sex scenes it ‘hired every intimacy coach in the UK’…but admits, ‘it’s OK if you fancy it’
