Jilly Cooper is a journalist, author and media superstar. The author of many number one bestselling books, she lives in Gloucestershire. Meanwhile, NafessaWilliams ( Whitney Houston: IWannaDance with Somebody) plays Cameron Cook,a ferociously talented American TV executive, who’s brought toCoriniumby Tony to produce Declan’s newprime-timetalk show.

I was nine when I discovered Jilly Cooper. I found a copy of Rivals in the bedroom of a holiday rental. There was no way my mother would have kept such seditious material in the house. She took a dim view of Cooper's work. I'm sure the feeling would have been mutual. My mother is the sort of person Cooper lampooned in her books: a left wing, lower-middle class intellectual who didn't know her place. To be fair, my mother doesn't know her place. She suffers from the societal equivalent of body dysmorphia: she imagines she's far posher than she is.Like hot Bovril or red phone boxes, they feel like they belong to a bygone era of British life: somehow both more innocent and more problematic all at the same time.

Danny Dyer stars as Freddie Jones: honourable,loyaland lovable, he’s a self-made electronics millionaire. Freddie’s got the money, but finds himself, along with his social-climbing wife Valerie (played by LisaMcGrillis(Maternal, Mum), an outsider toRutshire’scliques.In more recent years, her Rutshire Chronicles have come under fire for dated and problematic portrayals of race, homosexuality, gender roles and sexual consent. [1] [2] [3] Jilly, who is also an executive producer of the series, said she is “utterly enchanted” to announce the “all-star line-up” for Rivals. David Tennant is Rupert’s single-mindedly egotisticalRutshireneighbour Lord TonyBaddingham, controller ofCoriniumTelevision. There's no Rivals trailer yet but we’ll be sure to post a trailer for Rivals as soon as it lands. Behind the scenes and locations on Rivals When Jake and Rupert meet again for the first time since school, old rivalries are reawakened as they fight it out to prove who is the greater horseman and, perhaps more importantly, the greater lover. Along the way, Cooper gives us a peek into the lives of this close-knit community of tops riders, their horses, grooms and families. We see the highs and lows of life in the equestrian world, but who will eventually come out on top in the final showdown at the Los Angeles Olympics.

Laing, Olivia (11 September 2010). "Jump! by Jilly Cooper". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712 . Retrieved 15 July 2023. It was also through Cooper's books that I learned I was quite common. The signs were all there: we said "toilet", "lounge", "mirror", "TV". My sister and I had stopped calling our mother "mummy" before we turned five. Our father would keep putting sauce bottles on the table, and calling dinner "tea" (which he insisted be served at a déclassé 6pm). Riders is a 1985 novel written by the English author Jilly Cooper. It is the first of a series of romance novels known as the Rutshire Chronicles, which are set in the fictional English county of Rutshire. The story focuses on the lives of a group of top show jumping stars and follows the ups and downs of both their personal and professional lives. It was turned into a television film, Riders (1993), directed by Gabrielle Beaumont for Anglia Television and broadcast on the ITV Network. Danny Dyer, meanwhile, is swapping ‘Eastenders’ for the countryside to play Freddie Jones, a noble-minded self-made electronics millionaire who, along with his wife Valerie (Lisa McGrillis), finds himself victim of Rutshire snobbery. At least, until Rupert and Tony need some of his dosh for a business proposition. A star cast has been revealed today for the hotly anticipated Disney+ TV adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s Rivals with news that filming has started in the UK.

Claire Rushbrook ( Sherwood) plays Lady Monica Baddingham, Luke Pasqualino ( Skins) the charming Basil “Bas” Baddingham, Tony’s younger brother and the owner of Cotchester’s Bar Sinister. Find sources: "Rutshire Chronicles"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( December 2009) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)