If you are in the mood for a Dynasty style 80's glam soap opera
Disney + has announced cast for their new series
RIVALS which, based on the novel by
Jilly Cooper, follows the drama, excess, and shocking antics of the power-grabbing social elite of 1980s England. It dives headfirst into the ruthless world of independent television in 1986. In the fictional county of Rutshire, along-standing rivalry between two powerful men is about to boil over.
Alex Hassell plays dashing ex-Olympian, Tory Member of Parliament and
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Aidan Turner and David Tennant will lead the show
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incorrigible rake, the dangerously charismatic Rupert Campbell-Black.
David Tennant is Ruperts ambitious and egotistical Rutshire neighbour Lord Tony Baddingham, controller of Corinium Television. A long-simmering power struggle between them threatens to boil over when the two men lock horns over the future of Corinium.
Caught in the crossfire is TV presenter Declan OHara, (
Aidan Turner). Fiercely intellectual, with an even fiercer temper, he is wooed to Corinium TV from the BBC by Baddingham himself, but feels
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Alex Hassell will lead, with Luke Pasqualino also starring
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he’sbeen swindled when Tony refuses to deliver on his promises. Furious with Tony, Declan vows to get his revenge.
Victoria Smurfit is Maud OHara, a former actress and Declans bohemian, fickle wife.
Bella Maclean is Declan and Mauds tender-hearted yet strong-willed elder daughter, Taggie. She holds the OHara family together and keeps an eye on her younger and wilder sister Caitlin (
Catriona Chandler).
Nafessa Williams is Cameron Cook, a ferociously talented American TV executive who is brought to Corinium by
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Victoria Smurfit and Danny Dyer are also set to star
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Tony to produce Declans new prime-time talk show. She soon finds herself caught between the two powerful men who deeply underestimate her at their peril.
Katherine Parkinson is Lizzie Vereker, a romantic novelist consistently overlooked by her preening and self-centred TV presenter husband, James Vereker (
Oliver Chris).
Danny Dyer is Freddie Jones: honourable, loyal and lovable, he’s a self-made electronics millionaire. Freddie's got the money, but finds himself, along with his social-climbing wife Valerie (
Lisa McGrillis), an outsider to Rutshires cliques. But when Rupert
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Lisa McGrillis and gorgeous Oliver Chris will also star
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and Tony come to him with a business proposition, all that could change.
Claire Rushbrook is Lady Monica Baddingham, Tonys dependable, upper-crust wife who has absolutely no interest in the dramatic goings-on within her husbands empire.
Luke Pasqualino is the charming Basil Bas Baddingham, Tonys younger brother and the proprietor of Cotchesters hot spot, Bar Sinister.
Emily Atack is Sarah Stratton, the new wife to Deputy Prime Minister, Paul Stratton (
Rufus Jones). Sarah is ambitious and not afraid to use her looks to get to the top. Paul, on the other hand, is in the throes of a midlife crisis – everyone knows it.
I must admit I fully forgot about this one as the break was so long and the first season was nothing special, but
SWEET TOOTH is returning to
Netflix April 27th with a second season in which a deadly new wave of the Sick bears
down, as Gus (
Christian Convery) and a band of fellow hybrids are held prisoner by General Abbot (
Neil Sandilands) and the Last Men. Looking to
consolidate power by finding a cure, Abbot uses the children as fodder for the experiments of captive Dr. Aditya Singh (the godawful Adeel Akhtar), who’s
racing to save his infected wife Rani (
Aliza Vellani). To protect his friends, Gus agrees to help Dr. Singh, beginning a dark journey into his origins and his mother Birdie’s (
Amy Seimetz) role in the events leading up to The Great Crumble.
I'm looking forward to Sweet Tooth. I liked the first season.
ReplyDeleteHope you will like this one too!
DeleteI was going to ask if you liked Sweet Tooth, but it seems like it might just be ho, hum? I have it in my Netflix queue, I just haven't brought myself to watch any of it yet.
ReplyDeleteIt is watchable, but generally dull and boring and most of the characters are unlikeable.
DeleteThen I'll probably just end up deleting it then. The last thing I need is to waste time on a show that isn't great.
DeleteIt leaves a lot to be desired.
DeleteWe adore David Tennant :-) and I didn't even know there's a season one of Sweet Tooth..children series, I guess?
ReplyDeleteYou did know, I wrote about it many times, you just forgot. It is not exactly for kids even though it looks like it, it is way too dark for kids.
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