this week in bella We have been treated to our first proper look at the TV adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s much-loved 1988 novel, Rivals. Poldark hunk Aidan Turner, former Doctor Who star David Tennant, Emily Atack, Danny Dyer, Katherine Parkinson and Alex Hassell are set to feature in the forthcoming small-screen adaptation, which is full of romantic liaisons, dastardly deals, sex and wit.
Set against the power-grabbing social elite of ’80s England, Rivals – the second book in the author’s Rutshire Chronicles – offers an inside look into the ruthless and cut-throat world of independent television in 1986. David, 53, plays Lord Tony Baddingham, the ambitious and egotistical controller of TV station Corinium, who has a rivalry with Alex’s character, playboy aristocrat Rupert Campbell-Black. Aidan, 40, is presenter Declan O’Hara,…