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Rivals season 2 episode 6 has the worst cliffhanger ending of any TV show this decade — and it proves why streamers like Hulu and Disney+ are doing so badly by its LGBTQIA+ characters

Rivals season 2 episode 6 has ended its mid-season break with a shock death that absolutely nobody saw coming — but not only was it completely unnecessary, it's lazy storytelling.

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Rivals’ Rutshire – a place where modern Britain’s brutal divisions disappear in a cloud of sex

As the second series of the Jilly Cooper adaptation climaxes, we can be thankful that quality TV doesn’t always have to be bleak and stressful, says Jess Cartner-Morley

The Guardian - UK

I couldn’t understand my mother’s dementia – until a character from Rivals showed me the way

When my mum was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, one remark in Jilly Cooper’s romp made me realise how much my happiness is tied to her wellbeing

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Five Great Reads: a tinned tomato taste test and a chat with Alan Davies

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Imogen Dewey

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From racy riders to romantic rivals: Jilly Cooper’s best books – ranked!

The second series of Rivals has put the bestselling author’s brand of saucy jollity back on screen, but what is her bonkbuster nonpareil?

The Guardian - UK

Dame Jilly Cooper told Rivals writers to stop making her ‘macho men’ cry

Laura Wade, executive producer on the show, said Dame Jilly was like a ray of ‘human sunshine’ but had dished out one memorable piece of criticism.

Evening Standard

Why the Rivals age-gap relationship doesn’t matter to millennials like me (but it probably should)

OPINION: As the Jilly Cooper-inspired series bursts onto the small screen with more sex scenes than ever, Olivia Petter asks why young women like her are suddenly cheering on a relationship they would normally deem problematic

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Rivals season 2: Jilly Cooper’s Rutshire drama shows good sex from a woman’s point of view

Good sex on the screen seems to be having a moment. Steamy gay ice hockey romance Heated Rivalry made stars of its unknown leads Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie. The most recent season of Bridgerton – in which the titular family’s son and their lady’s maid fall passionately in love…

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Jilly Cooper’s literary agent to ‘piece together’ her final draft

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‘A wonderful surprise’: Posthumous Jilly Cooper story to hit shelves if final draft can be ‘pieced together’ by team

‘Rivals’ author died from a fatal head injury aged 88 in October last year

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Rivals actor Katherine Parkinson lauds series for depicting women’s view of sex

Bafta winner tells preview screening in Bristol there is not enough on television about the female perspective

The Guardian - UK

Obsessed with Rivals? Here’s how to read Jilly Cooper’s Rutshire Chronicles books in order

There are 11 books in the cult book series

The Independent UK

‘Well now, what’s repeatable?’ The magnificent Jilly Cooper remembered by the women who worked with her

TV: As the second series of ‘Rivals’ gallops onto our screens, Felicity Blunt and Victoria Smurfit tell Lauren Morris what it was like working with the late Dame Jilly Cooper

The Independent UK

Rivals season 2 review – Thrusting buttocks and heaving bosoms... Jilly Cooper’s escapist romp is back

4/5 Well-written, well-acted and enormously fun, the series remains a rare treat in today’s television landscape

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Rivals star David Tennant reveals BAFTA ban 'worries' over major scene

The actor, 55, plays ruthless television boss Lord Baddingham in the Disney plus drama

Woman & Home

Rivals cast recall shock ‘proposition’ Jilly Cooper made to them before her death: ‘It was very risqué’

As the 'bonkbuster' series returns, the Rivals cast recall a moment of Jilly Cooper's eye-popping humour

Evening Standard

Rivals' Alex Hassell: 'I struggled to accept why anyone would cast me as a macho figure'

As the bonkbuster series returns, Rivals star Alex Hassell talks sex, silliness and naked cartwheels — and why being bullied at school means he’s happy to be objectified now

Evening Standard

Danny Dyer, Emily Atack and David Tennant lead stars at glitzy Rivals series two premiere in London

‘All we want to do is make her and her family proud’, Emily Atack said of turning series two into a ‘love letter’ to Dame Jilly Cooper

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Rivals season 2 creators reveal how late author Jilly Cooper gave notes on final Hulu and Disney+ scripts just 'days' before her death: 'her fingerprints are all over this series'

Rivals season 2 is pressing ahead on Hulu and Disney+ with one stark missing ingredient: author Jilly Cooper. But even in the days before her death, she was giving script notes to showrunners.

The Independent UK

Danny Dyer teases even more nudity in Rivals season 2: ‘I go full frontal’

Jilly Cooper series returns this week to Disney+

Evening Standard

Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir triumphs at British Book Awards

Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir Of Surviving Abuse And Fighting For Justice picked up two prizes at the ceremony.

The Guardian - UK

Rivals season two review – if I could give this exquisite bonkbuster 10,000 stars, I would

The gloriously knowing adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s novel gets a tremendous second season. Its fabulous escapism is beyond earthly praise

Evening Standard

Danny Dyer says boys not brought up to be men and fear being ‘too cuddly’

The 48-year-old stars in the upcoming second series of Dame Jilly Cooper’s bonkbuster Rivals, reprising his role as business man Freddie Jones.

The Guardian - UK

‘Men are so frightened of being too cuddly or affectionate’: Danny Dyer on going from hardman to heart-throb in Rivals

The actor has always been full of surprises – and now thanks to Jilly Cooper’s bonkbuster he’s become a romantic lead. As the series returns, he talks about marriage, masculinity and meditation

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Aidan Turner feared he was being 'sacked' from Rivals when Jilly Cooper died

Actor Aidan Turner feared he was being "sacked" from his TV show Rivals when Jilly Cooper - the author behind the book on which the series is based - died because there was such a strange atmosphere on set.

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