Disney+ is building buzz for its Jilly Cooper adaptation Rivals by teasing first-look images of the eight-part series. The series will stream on Hulu in the U.S.
Rivals is part of Cooper’s bestselling Rutshire Chronicles and is set against the backdrop of the excess and antics of the power-grabbing social elite of 1980s England. Scroll on for more images.
Rivals chronicles the cutthroat world of independent television in 1986 and the long-standing rivalry of ex-Olympian, MP, and notorious womanizer Rupert Campbell-Black (Alex Hassell) and his neighbor Tony Baddingham (David Tennant), controller of Corinium Television.
Poldark star Aidan Turner is TV presenter Declan O’Hara, a fierce intellectual with an even fiercer temper who is wooed to Corinium from the BBC. Other cast includes EastEnders actor Danny Dyer as Freddie Jones, a self-made electrics millionaire.
Among the wider ensemble is Nafessa Williams (Black Lighting), Bella Maclean (Sex Education), Katherine Parkinson...
Rivals is part of Cooper’s bestselling Rutshire Chronicles and is set against the backdrop of the excess and antics of the power-grabbing social elite of 1980s England. Scroll on for more images.
Rivals chronicles the cutthroat world of independent television in 1986 and the long-standing rivalry of ex-Olympian, MP, and notorious womanizer Rupert Campbell-Black (Alex Hassell) and his neighbor Tony Baddingham (David Tennant), controller of Corinium Television.
Poldark star Aidan Turner is TV presenter Declan O’Hara, a fierce intellectual with an even fiercer temper who is wooed to Corinium from the BBC. Other cast includes EastEnders actor Danny Dyer as Freddie Jones, a self-made electrics millionaire.
Among the wider ensemble is Nafessa Williams (Black Lighting), Bella Maclean (Sex Education), Katherine Parkinson...
- 5/9/2024
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Actor, comedian and activist Emily Atack has signed with Curtis Brown for representation, Variety has learned exclusively. She will be repped by the agency in all areas.
Atack shot to public attention as the break-out star of award-winning sitcom “The Inbetweeners” and has since appeared in projects including “Dad’s Army” with Catherine Zeta Jones and Bill Nighy, “Lies We Tell” alongside Gabriel Byrne and Harvey Keitel and “Alright Now” starring Cobie Smulders.
She wrote and starred in her own sketch/comedy series “The Emily Atack Show” for ITV, which has run for three seasons, and has also appeared on other comedy and panel shows including “The Keith Lemon Sketch Show,” “Tracey Ullman’s Show” and “Celebrity Juice.”
Atack will next be seen in Disney+ adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s best-selling novel “Rivals,” which drops this fall. She plays ambitious politician’s wife Sarah Stratton opposite “W1A’s” Rufus Jones as deputy Prime Minister Paul Stratton.
Atack shot to public attention as the break-out star of award-winning sitcom “The Inbetweeners” and has since appeared in projects including “Dad’s Army” with Catherine Zeta Jones and Bill Nighy, “Lies We Tell” alongside Gabriel Byrne and Harvey Keitel and “Alright Now” starring Cobie Smulders.
She wrote and starred in her own sketch/comedy series “The Emily Atack Show” for ITV, which has run for three seasons, and has also appeared on other comedy and panel shows including “The Keith Lemon Sketch Show,” “Tracey Ullman’s Show” and “Celebrity Juice.”
Atack will next be seen in Disney+ adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s best-selling novel “Rivals,” which drops this fall. She plays ambitious politician’s wife Sarah Stratton opposite “W1A’s” Rufus Jones as deputy Prime Minister Paul Stratton.
- 3/12/2024
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
A feast for the eyeballs! That’s what the UK’s new TV drama (British shows returning for another series this year are here) output looks like for 2024 – a year of thrills, chills and laughs, from supernatural escapism to immersive historical dramas, true stories brought to life, and plenty to feed Britain’s crime mystery obsession.
Here’s a flavour of what 2024 holds for your TV: book adaptations include a new imagining of Ian Rankin’s Rebus detective stories coming to the BBC, a scandalous adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s iconic novel Rivals (starring David Tennant), Jack Thorne’s take on Lord of the Flies, and much much more.
There’s high-stakes action in thrillers like Red Eye, Black Doves and Nightsleeper, and you can transport yourself back in time to discover the lives of a notorious eighties jewel thief in Joan, sinister Jacobean power play in Mary and George,...
Here’s a flavour of what 2024 holds for your TV: book adaptations include a new imagining of Ian Rankin’s Rebus detective stories coming to the BBC, a scandalous adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s iconic novel Rivals (starring David Tennant), Jack Thorne’s take on Lord of the Flies, and much much more.
There’s high-stakes action in thrillers like Red Eye, Black Doves and Nightsleeper, and you can transport yourself back in time to discover the lives of a notorious eighties jewel thief in Joan, sinister Jacobean power play in Mary and George,...
- 3/11/2024
- by Lauravickersgreen
- Den of Geek
Highway robbery, murderous Tudors and fancy fashion houses abound in Disney’s slate of UK productions for next year.
With a film and TV industry slightly less hampered by Hollywood strike action, Disney Plus have confirmed 2024 air dates for a bunch of UK-based series.
BAFTA-winner Sally Wainwright’s new series, Renegade Nell, has been locked in for a Spring 2024 release. Starring Louisa Harland (Orla from Derry Girls) as the titular rebel, the show finds a young woman framed for murder and inadvertently becoming the most notorious highwaywoman in 18th century England. Throw in a magical spirit played by Ted Lasso's Nick Mohammed, and we’ve got a proper fantasy action-adventure series on our hands.
Also confirmed is the second series of award-winning comedy Extraordinary, which stars Máiréad Tyers as the only non-powered person in a world full of superheroes and is arriving in “early 2024”, and a four-part adaptation of C.J. Sansom’s murder mystery series,...
With a film and TV industry slightly less hampered by Hollywood strike action, Disney Plus have confirmed 2024 air dates for a bunch of UK-based series.
BAFTA-winner Sally Wainwright’s new series, Renegade Nell, has been locked in for a Spring 2024 release. Starring Louisa Harland (Orla from Derry Girls) as the titular rebel, the show finds a young woman framed for murder and inadvertently becoming the most notorious highwaywoman in 18th century England. Throw in a magical spirit played by Ted Lasso's Nick Mohammed, and we’ve got a proper fantasy action-adventure series on our hands.
Also confirmed is the second series of award-winning comedy Extraordinary, which stars Máiréad Tyers as the only non-powered person in a world full of superheroes and is arriving in “early 2024”, and a four-part adaptation of C.J. Sansom’s murder mystery series,...
- 12/4/2023
- by James Harvey
- Film Stories
The U.K. TV industry delivered a total sector revenue of almost £4 billion ($5 billion) in 2022.
The figure comes from a new production census report by local producers body Pact, which showed last year was a booming time for the industry, driven by both internal and international commissions and particularly an increased in streaming commissions.
“2022 was clearly a big boom year, both domestically and internationally,” said Pact CEO John McVay during a press briefing to unveil the results of the census. “Clearly the U.K. is still looked at as a place where large sums of money are being invested in content and that’s good news not just for my members but for everyone in the supply chain and the value chain for that as well”
Domestic TV revenues grew to £2.2 billion while international revenues came in at £1.6 billion, representing a 70% increase. Pact suggested the growth was partly down to...
The figure comes from a new production census report by local producers body Pact, which showed last year was a booming time for the industry, driven by both internal and international commissions and particularly an increased in streaming commissions.
“2022 was clearly a big boom year, both domestically and internationally,” said Pact CEO John McVay during a press briefing to unveil the results of the census. “Clearly the U.K. is still looked at as a place where large sums of money are being invested in content and that’s good news not just for my members but for everyone in the supply chain and the value chain for that as well”
Domestic TV revenues grew to £2.2 billion while international revenues came in at £1.6 billion, representing a 70% increase. Pact suggested the growth was partly down to...
- 9/12/2023
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Disney+ has “pretty much” hit its target of creating 50 original international titles, according to its Europe content boss.
Liam Keelan, Disney’s SVP, Original Content, Europe and Africa, confirmed the target, which was set back in December 2020, had almost been met a year ahead of schedule. This is despite the general downturn in commissioning in Europe this year and potential changes in Disney+’s strategic focus going forwards spearheaded by Disney CEO Bob Iger.
“We’ve pretty much got there already,” said Keelan, though he added Disney+ is “never going to be in that high-volume game.”
He added: “It’s more about quality.”
The 50-title figure includes returning series such as Extraordinary, the British superhero workplace comedy about a world in which normal people have powers. Disney also announced cast for UK thriller Playdate and unscripted show World War Shoe: Adidas Vs. Puma today at the Edinburgh TV Festival.
Extraordinary...
Liam Keelan, Disney’s SVP, Original Content, Europe and Africa, confirmed the target, which was set back in December 2020, had almost been met a year ahead of schedule. This is despite the general downturn in commissioning in Europe this year and potential changes in Disney+’s strategic focus going forwards spearheaded by Disney CEO Bob Iger.
“We’ve pretty much got there already,” said Keelan, though he added Disney+ is “never going to be in that high-volume game.”
He added: “It’s more about quality.”
The 50-title figure includes returning series such as Extraordinary, the British superhero workplace comedy about a world in which normal people have powers. Disney also announced cast for UK thriller Playdate and unscripted show World War Shoe: Adidas Vs. Puma today at the Edinburgh TV Festival.
Extraordinary...
- 8/23/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
One of the stars of a British TV show currently in production has boasted that the set is so sexy, bosses have drafted in not one but two intimacy coordinators.
Aidan Turner – star of The Hobbit films and the title role in hit BBC drama Poldark – told The Times newspaper that filming the drama Rivals for Disney+ is the most fun he’s had in his two-decade acting career.
He said: “We have so much sex on our show, we have to have two intimacy coaches. Two!”
Rivals is based on the 1988 bestselling romp-novel by Jilly Cooper of the same name – the second in her hit Rutshire Chronicles books, chronicling the 1980s excess of the lives and many loves of well-to-do characters on the polo fields and in the television studios of the picturesque Cotswolds, in the west of England. Besides Turner, the series stars David Tennant, Katherine Parkinson, Lisa McGrillis,...
Aidan Turner – star of The Hobbit films and the title role in hit BBC drama Poldark – told The Times newspaper that filming the drama Rivals for Disney+ is the most fun he’s had in his two-decade acting career.
He said: “We have so much sex on our show, we have to have two intimacy coaches. Two!”
Rivals is based on the 1988 bestselling romp-novel by Jilly Cooper of the same name – the second in her hit Rutshire Chronicles books, chronicling the 1980s excess of the lives and many loves of well-to-do characters on the polo fields and in the television studios of the picturesque Cotswolds, in the west of England. Besides Turner, the series stars David Tennant, Katherine Parkinson, Lisa McGrillis,...
- 7/1/2023
- by Caroline Frost
- Deadline Film + TV
Streamer Disney+ has revealed a power packed British cast who will join the previously announced David Tennant, Alex Hassell, Aidan Turner and Danny Dyer on the series adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s steamy novel “Rivals.”
Joining the eight-part saga are Annabel Scholey (“The Split”), Maggie Steed (“Ten Percent”), David Calder (“Motherland”), Antony Byrne (‘”The Witcher”), Denise Black (“Queer as Folk”), Bryony Hannah (“Call The Midwife”), Olivia Poulet (“Back”) and Brendan Patricks (“Downton Abbey”).
“Rivals” is part of Cooper’s bestselling “Rutshire Chronicles,” set in affluent 1980s England where two powerful men and neigbors – Olympian turned politician Rupert Campbell-Black and television exec Tony Baddingham – have a longstanding rivalry that finally comes to a head.
Scholey plays Beattie Johnson, a ruthless Fleet Street journalist who will do anything for a story. Steed plays Lady Gosling, the steely no-nonsense chair of Independent Broadcasters Association. Calder plays Lady Gosling’s dogmatic right-hand man, Fergus Penney,...
Joining the eight-part saga are Annabel Scholey (“The Split”), Maggie Steed (“Ten Percent”), David Calder (“Motherland”), Antony Byrne (‘”The Witcher”), Denise Black (“Queer as Folk”), Bryony Hannah (“Call The Midwife”), Olivia Poulet (“Back”) and Brendan Patricks (“Downton Abbey”).
“Rivals” is part of Cooper’s bestselling “Rutshire Chronicles,” set in affluent 1980s England where two powerful men and neigbors – Olympian turned politician Rupert Campbell-Black and television exec Tony Baddingham – have a longstanding rivalry that finally comes to a head.
Scholey plays Beattie Johnson, a ruthless Fleet Street journalist who will do anything for a story. Steed plays Lady Gosling, the steely no-nonsense chair of Independent Broadcasters Association. Calder plays Lady Gosling’s dogmatic right-hand man, Fergus Penney,...
- 5/15/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Cuts to London-based positions are expected, including among the Disney+ Emea teams.
Disney’s plan to cut 7,000 jobs is set to hit the company’s UK-based roles and redundancies at content positions including the Disney+ commissioning teams are expected this month, Screen’s sister site Broadcast understands.
Last Monday (27 March), Walt Disney Company chief executive Bob Iger set out the timeline for his strategy to cut £2.4bn ($3bn) from content budgets and £2bn ($2.5bn) of other costs.
The ripple effects are due to be felt in the coming weeks and multiple sources indicated that cuts to London-based positions are expected,...
Disney’s plan to cut 7,000 jobs is set to hit the company’s UK-based roles and redundancies at content positions including the Disney+ commissioning teams are expected this month, Screen’s sister site Broadcast understands.
Last Monday (27 March), Walt Disney Company chief executive Bob Iger set out the timeline for his strategy to cut £2.4bn ($3bn) from content budgets and £2bn ($2.5bn) of other costs.
The ripple effects are due to be felt in the coming weeks and multiple sources indicated that cuts to London-based positions are expected,...
- 4/4/2023
- by Tara Conlan Broadcast
- ScreenDaily
David Tennant, Danny Dyer and Aiden Turner have joined the casting line-up for the eight-part series, ‘Rivals’, based on the celebrated novel by Jilly Cooper.
Completing the ensemble cast are Alex Hassell, Nafessa Williams, Bella Maclean, Katherine Parkinson, Victoria Smurfit, Claire Rushbrook, Oliver Chris, Lisa McGrillis, Emily Atack, Rufus Jones, Luke Pasqualino and Catriona Chandler.
The original eight-episode series is part of Cooper’s bestselling Rutshire Chronicles, the iconic literary series packed full of wit, romantic entanglements, sex and unforgettable characters. The story is set against the backdrop of the drama, excess, and shocking antics of the power-grabbing social elite of 1980s England.
Diving headfirst into the ruthless world of independent television in 1986. In the fictional county of Rutshire, a long-standing rivalry between two powerful men is about to boil over. Alex Hassell plays dashing ex-Olympian, Tory Member of Parliament and incorrigible rake, the dangerously charismatic Rupert Campbell-Black. David Tennant...
Completing the ensemble cast are Alex Hassell, Nafessa Williams, Bella Maclean, Katherine Parkinson, Victoria Smurfit, Claire Rushbrook, Oliver Chris, Lisa McGrillis, Emily Atack, Rufus Jones, Luke Pasqualino and Catriona Chandler.
The original eight-episode series is part of Cooper’s bestselling Rutshire Chronicles, the iconic literary series packed full of wit, romantic entanglements, sex and unforgettable characters. The story is set against the backdrop of the drama, excess, and shocking antics of the power-grabbing social elite of 1980s England.
Diving headfirst into the ruthless world of independent television in 1986. In the fictional county of Rutshire, a long-standing rivalry between two powerful men is about to boil over. Alex Hassell plays dashing ex-Olympian, Tory Member of Parliament and incorrigible rake, the dangerously charismatic Rupert Campbell-Black. David Tennant...
- 3/21/2023
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Exclusive: Doctor Who star David Tennant, Danny Dyer and Aidan Turner are featuring in an ensemble cast for Disney+’s adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s Rivals.
Unveiled at last year’s Edinburgh TV Festival, 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.
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Set in the fictional upper-class county of Rutshire, Rivals dives headfirst into the cutthroat world of independent...
Unveiled at last year’s Edinburgh TV Festival, 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.
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Set in the fictional upper-class county of Rutshire, Rivals dives headfirst into the cutthroat world of independent...
- 3/21/2023
- by Max Goldbart and Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
“Rivals,” the steamy 1980s novel from “Queen of the Bonkbuster” Jilly Cooper is set to be adapted for streamer Disney+.
The eight-part series is set in affluent 1980s England where two powerful men and neigbors – Olympian turned politician Rupert Campbell-Black and television exec Tony Baddingham – have a longstanding rivalry that finally comes to a head.
“As tensions rise and rivalries deepen, there are spilled secrets, forged alliances, and snatched liaisons that draw wives, lovers, colleagues, friends, and families into their battle,” reads the longline.
The series will be produced by Happy Prince Productions, which is part of ITV Studios. Elliot Hegarty (“Ted Lasso”) will lead direct and exec produce episodes 1-3. Eliza Mellor (“The Midwich Cuckoos”) is series producer.
Dominic Treadwell-Collins (“A Very English Scandal”) will exec produce alongside Cooper, Alexander Lamb (“The Bay”), literary agent Felicity Blunt, writer Laura Wade and Lee Mason, director of scripted content for Disney...
The eight-part series is set in affluent 1980s England where two powerful men and neigbors – Olympian turned politician Rupert Campbell-Black and television exec Tony Baddingham – have a longstanding rivalry that finally comes to a head.
“As tensions rise and rivalries deepen, there are spilled secrets, forged alliances, and snatched liaisons that draw wives, lovers, colleagues, friends, and families into their battle,” reads the longline.
The series will be produced by Happy Prince Productions, which is part of ITV Studios. Elliot Hegarty (“Ted Lasso”) will lead direct and exec produce episodes 1-3. Eliza Mellor (“The Midwich Cuckoos”) is series producer.
Dominic Treadwell-Collins (“A Very English Scandal”) will exec produce alongside Cooper, Alexander Lamb (“The Bay”), literary agent Felicity Blunt, writer Laura Wade and Lee Mason, director of scripted content for Disney...
- 8/25/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Disney+ has greenlit a new eight-part series titled Rivals, based on the popular novel by British author Jilly Cooper.
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, and his Rutshire neighbor Tony Baddingham, controller of the independent TV franchise Corinium Television.
As tensions rise and rivalries deepen, there are spilled secrets, forged alliances, and snatched liaisons that draw wives, lovers, colleagues, friends, and families into their battle.
“The combination of Jilly Cooper and Disney+ is delightfully unexpected. We were thrilled when Dominic brought us these iconic books, and we leapt at the chance to bring them to life. We can’t wait to welcome Rupert Campbell-Black and the residents of Rutshire to the platform,” said Lee Mason,...
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, and his Rutshire neighbor Tony Baddingham, controller of the independent TV franchise Corinium Television.
As tensions rise and rivalries deepen, there are spilled secrets, forged alliances, and snatched liaisons that draw wives, lovers, colleagues, friends, and families into their battle.
“The combination of Jilly Cooper and Disney+ is delightfully unexpected. We were thrilled when Dominic brought us these iconic books, and we leapt at the chance to bring them to life. We can’t wait to welcome Rupert Campbell-Black and the residents of Rutshire to the platform,” said Lee Mason,...
- 8/25/2022
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has received a letter signed by 50 of Britain’s biggest stars, including Dame Judi Dench, Brian May Cbe, Leona Lewis, Gary Lineker OBE, James Arthur, Thandie Newton OBE, Alesha Dixon, Ricky Gervais, Mollie King and Dame Twiggy Lawson, urging him to implement a UK ban on the sale of real animal fur.
Animal protection organisation Humane Society International/UK which leads the #FurFreeBritain campaign in collaboration with other animal charities, is hopeful that a 2021 ban is possible now that the Brexit transition is completed.
Fur farming was banned in Britain almost two decades ago in 2003 as it was deemed too cruel. But since then Britain has imported more than £800 million worth of fur from countries including Finland, China, France and Poland, where animals experience severe suffering and distress on fur farms. This is a double standard that needs to end.
The letter which is also signed by Amanda Holden,...
Animal protection organisation Humane Society International/UK which leads the #FurFreeBritain campaign in collaboration with other animal charities, is hopeful that a 2021 ban is possible now that the Brexit transition is completed.
Fur farming was banned in Britain almost two decades ago in 2003 as it was deemed too cruel. But since then Britain has imported more than £800 million worth of fur from countries including Finland, China, France and Poland, where animals experience severe suffering and distress on fur farms. This is a double standard that needs to end.
The letter which is also signed by Amanda Holden,...
- 2/24/2021
- Look to the Stars
This week, Prime Minister Theresa May received a letter from 23 of the UK’s biggest celebrities urging her to recognise animal sentience in law and warning that Brexit puts “the welfare of billions of animals at risk”.
The stars signed the open letter to show their support for the #BetterDealForAnimals campaign, which is calling for the UK government to recognise animal sentience in law and ensure that animal welfare policies are maintained and strengthened in the event of the UK leaving the European Union. #BetterDealForAnimals is run by a group of 36 prominent animal charities including – Humane Society International UK, the Rspca, World Animal Protection, Four Paws, and Wildlife and Countryside Link.
The following celebrities co-signed the letter: Jilly Cooper, Mel C, Alesha Dixon, Peter Egan, Ben Fogle, Amanda Holden, Twiggy Lawson, Rula Lenska, Leona Lewis, Matt Lucas, Joanna Lumley, Evanna Lynch, Virginia Mckenna, Deborah Meaden, Thandie Newton, Lesley Nichol, Bill Oddie,...
The stars signed the open letter to show their support for the #BetterDealForAnimals campaign, which is calling for the UK government to recognise animal sentience in law and ensure that animal welfare policies are maintained and strengthened in the event of the UK leaving the European Union. #BetterDealForAnimals is run by a group of 36 prominent animal charities including – Humane Society International UK, the Rspca, World Animal Protection, Four Paws, and Wildlife and Countryside Link.
The following celebrities co-signed the letter: Jilly Cooper, Mel C, Alesha Dixon, Peter Egan, Ben Fogle, Amanda Holden, Twiggy Lawson, Rula Lenska, Leona Lewis, Matt Lucas, Joanna Lumley, Evanna Lynch, Virginia Mckenna, Deborah Meaden, Thandie Newton, Lesley Nichol, Bill Oddie,...
- 2/26/2019
- Look to the Stars
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall has a magnetism all her own—and Prince Charles isn’t the only one who felt the pull.
“I’ve noticed how men always congregated around her,” a source in royal circles tells People in this week’s issue. “Clearly when people meet her she has that je ne sais quoi. She does have that magic spell that draws people in.” Adds Christopher Wilson, author of the 1994 biography A Greater Love: “What she had was chutzpah.”
As she approaches her 70th birthday on July 17, the new biography The Duchess: The Untold Story highlights Camilla’s side...
“I’ve noticed how men always congregated around her,” a source in royal circles tells People in this week’s issue. “Clearly when people meet her she has that je ne sais quoi. She does have that magic spell that draws people in.” Adds Christopher Wilson, author of the 1994 biography A Greater Love: “What she had was chutzpah.”
As she approaches her 70th birthday on July 17, the new biography The Duchess: The Untold Story highlights Camilla’s side...
- 6/28/2017
- by Simon Perry
- PEOPLE.com
E4's thrilling new murder mystery drama Glue debuted tonight, blending Skins-style teen hedonism with a Broadchurch-esque murder mystery.
It was all sex, drugs and pregnant cows in episode one. Oh, and 14-year-old Caleb Bray was found dead. Murdered. Killed, probably by someone he knew, drowned in mud. Pretty dark stuff.
So who killed Cal? We haven't got a Scooby right now, but we definitely have some questions. 9 big fat ones in fact.
1. What is the significance of the pendant?
We saw Cal wearing it in the grain silo, but it's now in the possession of James. What is its significance? And how did it get into the hands of James?
Did he strangle him with it and steal it? Did he take it from Cal's dead body? Or was it something more innocent?
2. The couple having sex in the van. Who were they?
The pair who witnessed James running...
It was all sex, drugs and pregnant cows in episode one. Oh, and 14-year-old Caleb Bray was found dead. Murdered. Killed, probably by someone he knew, drowned in mud. Pretty dark stuff.
So who killed Cal? We haven't got a Scooby right now, but we definitely have some questions. 9 big fat ones in fact.
1. What is the significance of the pendant?
We saw Cal wearing it in the grain silo, but it's now in the possession of James. What is its significance? And how did it get into the hands of James?
Did he strangle him with it and steal it? Did he take it from Cal's dead body? Or was it something more innocent?
2. The couple having sex in the van. Who were they?
The pair who witnessed James running...
- 9/15/2014
- Digital Spy
'Who is Annabel Giles?' we mused aloud upon discovering she was the latest star to join I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!.
The former model will enter the jungle along with Strictly Come Dancing star Vincent Simone tomorrow (November 22).
So as we anticipate Giles's arrival on the show, we find out more about the star with 9 fun facts - with some forgotten photographs and quality '90s TV reminiscing.
She appeared on You Bet!
Remember the show where a panel of celebrities bet on whether members of the public could successfully complete difficult and often dangerous challenges against the clock? Well, Giles took part in the show back in 1992 along with Olympic athlete Kriss Akabusi (whatever happened to him?!), Judi Spiers, Andrew O'Connor and then-host Matthew Kelly. At least three DS icons right there.
She's done panto
And here she is promoting the Babes in the Wood...
The former model will enter the jungle along with Strictly Come Dancing star Vincent Simone tomorrow (November 22).
So as we anticipate Giles's arrival on the show, we find out more about the star with 9 fun facts - with some forgotten photographs and quality '90s TV reminiscing.
She appeared on You Bet!
Remember the show where a panel of celebrities bet on whether members of the public could successfully complete difficult and often dangerous challenges against the clock? Well, Giles took part in the show back in 1992 along with Olympic athlete Kriss Akabusi (whatever happened to him?!), Judi Spiers, Andrew O'Connor and then-host Matthew Kelly. At least three DS icons right there.
She's done panto
And here she is promoting the Babes in the Wood...
- 11/21/2013
- Digital Spy
Foals have accused David Guetta of harming the progression of hip-hop. The band's frontman Yannis Philippakis told Digital Spy that the 'Titanium' star's "bulls**t" music style being used to background hip-hop songs damages the genre. Philippakis said: "David Guetta is basically... it's not even something that really makes my blood boil because it is just bulls**t. It is an abomination but there needs to be bad music around. You need Jilly Cooper novels and pulp, trashy culture. "Plus, some people like s**t music. I don't like David Guetta and I don't like that style. What bothers me more really is that a lot of hip-hop is being played over those backing tracks, and I find that a shame because I like hip-hop a lot." He added: "I can't listen to current hip-hop because the MCing (more)...
- 1/15/2013
- by By Adam Silverstein
- Digital Spy
The electronic dance music backlash continues, this time in the form of Foals singer Yannis Philippakis lambasting pop-hosue producers like David Guetta. In a word, he thinks such work to be "bullsh-t."
In a wide-ranging interview with Digital Spy, Philippakis said he can't even be too mad at Guetta, because "there needs to be bad music around." Here's the full quote:
"David Guetta is basically... it's not even something that really makes my blood boil because it is just bulls**t. It is an abomination but there needs to be bad music around. You need Jilly Cooper novels and pulp, trashy culture. Plus, some people like s**t music. I don't like David Guetta and I don't like that style. What bothers me more really is that a lot of hip-hop is being played over those backing tracks, and I find that a shame because I like hip-hop a lot.
In a wide-ranging interview with Digital Spy, Philippakis said he can't even be too mad at Guetta, because "there needs to be bad music around." Here's the full quote:
"David Guetta is basically... it's not even something that really makes my blood boil because it is just bulls**t. It is an abomination but there needs to be bad music around. You need Jilly Cooper novels and pulp, trashy culture. Plus, some people like s**t music. I don't like David Guetta and I don't like that style. What bothers me more really is that a lot of hip-hop is being played over those backing tracks, and I find that a shame because I like hip-hop a lot.
- 1/15/2013
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
Five writers give their personal takes on the appeal that makes Anna Karenina a literary masterpiece
Francine Prose, author of Blue Angel and My New American Life
Anna Karenina is probably my favourite novel. More than any other book, it persuades me that there is such a thing as human nature, and that some part of that nature remains fundamentally unaffected by history and culture. I try to re-read it every few years. Each time, perhaps because I'm older and have experienced more, I find things I never noticed before. Not only is it a great source of pleasure, but I inevitably feel as if I'm getting a sort of pep talk from Tolstoy: Go deeper. Try harder. Aim higher. Pay closer attention to the world. It's orchestral, symphonic, full of distinctive melodies, parallels and variations that keep reappearing, some of which we notice, none of which we need to...
Francine Prose, author of Blue Angel and My New American Life
Anna Karenina is probably my favourite novel. More than any other book, it persuades me that there is such a thing as human nature, and that some part of that nature remains fundamentally unaffected by history and culture. I try to re-read it every few years. Each time, perhaps because I'm older and have experienced more, I find things I never noticed before. Not only is it a great source of pleasure, but I inevitably feel as if I'm getting a sort of pep talk from Tolstoy: Go deeper. Try harder. Aim higher. Pay closer attention to the world. It's orchestral, symphonic, full of distinctive melodies, parallels and variations that keep reappearing, some of which we notice, none of which we need to...
- 9/3/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
New York, June 27: Women don't want to have sex anymore because they have too much on their plates that often leads to more stress, a British novelist has claimed.
According to Jilly Cooper, women are too busy to have sex anymore.
"Doctors' waiting rooms are absolutely brimming these days with women suffering from low libidos," the New York Daily News quoted Cooper as telling the Telegraph.
"I have talked to a lot of young women about this, and they just don't seem to do it any more.
"Honestly, I suppose it's because we all have so many other demands on our time now," Copper said.
The 75-year-old made a name for herself in '80s with a series of romantic fiction books that featured raunchy tales of.
According to Jilly Cooper, women are too busy to have sex anymore.
"Doctors' waiting rooms are absolutely brimming these days with women suffering from low libidos," the New York Daily News quoted Cooper as telling the Telegraph.
"I have talked to a lot of young women about this, and they just don't seem to do it any more.
"Honestly, I suppose it's because we all have so many other demands on our time now," Copper said.
The 75-year-old made a name for herself in '80s with a series of romantic fiction books that featured raunchy tales of.
- 6/26/2012
- by Shiva Prakash
- RealBollywood.com
Kylie Minogue is to receive an honorary degree from a British university. The singer will collect an honorary Doctorate of Health Sciences from Anglia Ruskin University, which has campuses in Essex and Cambridgeshire. Minogue is being recognised for her work in promoting breast cancer awareness after she famously battled the disease in 2005 by undergoing a course of chemotherapy. She is one of 12 people to be conferred honorary degrees by the university, alongside 2,500 other graduates. Other stars collecting the accolade include novelist Jilly Cooper for her services to journalism, five-time Olympic swimmer Mark Foster and sports (more)...
- 10/5/2011
- by By Robert Copsey
- Digital Spy
This week's news in the arts
If history tells us anything it is, first, that art about sport is usually a bad idea, and secondly, that artists never learn this. The Olympic Games have always been a tempting subject. Big jumps, taut thighs, twanging javelins: few artists can behold these marvels without feeling the urge to inadequately recreate them.
The Theban poet Pindar and his rival Bacchylides , who both wrote victory odes in the fifth century Bce, were surely not the first to get sucked in. As Pindar gushes in a poem for the Isthmian games: "To a poet's mind the gift is slight, to speak/ A kind word for unnumbered toils, and build/ For all to share a monument of beauty."
No doubt these words were pinned to Jilly Cooper 's study wall while she composed her steam'n'stirrups epic Riders. Cooper's novel takes equal joy in the physical accomplishments of its heroes,...
If history tells us anything it is, first, that art about sport is usually a bad idea, and secondly, that artists never learn this. The Olympic Games have always been a tempting subject. Big jumps, taut thighs, twanging javelins: few artists can behold these marvels without feeling the urge to inadequately recreate them.
The Theban poet Pindar and his rival Bacchylides , who both wrote victory odes in the fifth century Bce, were surely not the first to get sucked in. As Pindar gushes in a poem for the Isthmian games: "To a poet's mind the gift is slight, to speak/ A kind word for unnumbered toils, and build/ For all to share a monument of beauty."
No doubt these words were pinned to Jilly Cooper 's study wall while she composed her steam'n'stirrups epic Riders. Cooper's novel takes equal joy in the physical accomplishments of its heroes,...
- 7/28/2011
- by Leo Benedictus
- The Guardian - Film News
The first shots from Peter Jackson's forthcoming Hobbit movies are now online. Let us know what you think below
The first official stills of the upcoming Hobbit movie have been released via Entertainment Weekly magazine, and they're certainly a random assortment. In the first of three, Martin Freeman as Bilbo – sporting a tremendous pair of prosthetic ears – reads a letter in his Hobbiton home. In the second, Ian McKellen strikes a remarkably relaxed pose as Gandalf (I wonder what's in that pipe?). The third, above, features Peter Jackson coaching Freeman in a kitchen that wouldn't look out of place in a Jilly Cooper novel.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – the first film in Jackson's two-part adaptation – isn't released until December 2012, but our appetites are now officially whetted. Do the shots match what you think a Hobbit movie ought to look like? Check out the pictures yourself and tell us your thoughts below.
The first official stills of the upcoming Hobbit movie have been released via Entertainment Weekly magazine, and they're certainly a random assortment. In the first of three, Martin Freeman as Bilbo – sporting a tremendous pair of prosthetic ears – reads a letter in his Hobbiton home. In the second, Ian McKellen strikes a remarkably relaxed pose as Gandalf (I wonder what's in that pipe?). The third, above, features Peter Jackson coaching Freeman in a kitchen that wouldn't look out of place in a Jilly Cooper novel.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – the first film in Jackson's two-part adaptation – isn't released until December 2012, but our appetites are now officially whetted. Do the shots match what you think a Hobbit movie ought to look like? Check out the pictures yourself and tell us your thoughts below.
- 6/24/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
On April 16th 2011, science fiction author Stephen Hunt sent out a press release to genre websites, including Fgt, announcing a letter of protest signed by 85 authors of sci-fi and fantasy literature sent to the BBC.
This letter, penned by Hunt, complained that the BBC 2 had not covered science fiction, fantasy, and horror fiction sufficiently in their World Book Night programming on March 5th, 2011. The programs that particularly bothered Hunt were called “The Books We Really Read”, an episode of The Culture Show, hosted by comedian Sue Perkins and “New Novelists: 12 of the Best.”
Hunt quoted himself in his press release as outlining his contempt for the BBC shows:
Quote:
Fantasy author Stephen Hunt, who organised the protest, commented, “The sneering tone that was levelled towards commercial fiction during The Books We Really Read was deeply counterproductive to the night’s aims of actually encouraging people to read novels. The weight...
This letter, penned by Hunt, complained that the BBC 2 had not covered science fiction, fantasy, and horror fiction sufficiently in their World Book Night programming on March 5th, 2011. The programs that particularly bothered Hunt were called “The Books We Really Read”, an episode of The Culture Show, hosted by comedian Sue Perkins and “New Novelists: 12 of the Best.”
Hunt quoted himself in his press release as outlining his contempt for the BBC shows:
Quote:
Fantasy author Stephen Hunt, who organised the protest, commented, “The sneering tone that was levelled towards commercial fiction during The Books We Really Read was deeply counterproductive to the night’s aims of actually encouraging people to read novels. The weight...
- 4/30/2011
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
Jonathan Franzen's family epic, a new collection from Seamus Heaney, Philip Larkin's love letters, a memoir centred on tiny Japanese sculptures ... which books most excited our writers this year?
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In Red Dust Road (Picador) Jackie Kay writes lucidly and honestly about being the adopted black daughter of white parents, about searching for her white birth mother and Nigerian birth father, and about the many layers of identity. She has a rare ability to portray sentiment with absolutely no sentimentality. Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns (Random House) is a fresh and wonderful history of African-American migration. Chang-rae Lee's The Surrendered (Little, Brown) is a grave, beautiful novel about people who experienced the Korean war and the war's legacy. And David Remnick's The Bridge (Picador) is a thorough and well-written biography of Barack Obama. The many Americans who believe invented biographical details about Obama would do well to read it.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In Red Dust Road (Picador) Jackie Kay writes lucidly and honestly about being the adopted black daughter of white parents, about searching for her white birth mother and Nigerian birth father, and about the many layers of identity. She has a rare ability to portray sentiment with absolutely no sentimentality. Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns (Random House) is a fresh and wonderful history of African-American migration. Chang-rae Lee's The Surrendered (Little, Brown) is a grave, beautiful novel about people who experienced the Korean war and the war's legacy. And David Remnick's The Bridge (Picador) is a thorough and well-written biography of Barack Obama. The many Americans who believe invented biographical details about Obama would do well to read it.
- 11/27/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
Here’s an unusual competition: we’re going to turn one lucky winner into an animated Red agent. Read on to find out more…
To celebrate the release of Red, in cinemas on October 22nd, we have joined forces with Entertainment One and the London Film Museum to give one lucky winner the chance of having themselves animated in the style of Warren Ellis' original graphic novel!
Firstly, the synopsis of the film:
Frank Moses (Bruce Willis), Joe Matheson (Morgan Freeman), Marvin Boggs (John Malkovich) and Victoria Winslow (Helen Mirren) used to be the CIA's top agents, - but the secrets they know just made them the Agency's top targets.
Frank, who was the agency's most effective black ops agent of all time must now track down and reassemble the old team. First on the list is intelligence specialist Joe who is charming, disarming and lethal! Next is hysterically...
To celebrate the release of Red, in cinemas on October 22nd, we have joined forces with Entertainment One and the London Film Museum to give one lucky winner the chance of having themselves animated in the style of Warren Ellis' original graphic novel!
Firstly, the synopsis of the film:
Frank Moses (Bruce Willis), Joe Matheson (Morgan Freeman), Marvin Boggs (John Malkovich) and Victoria Winslow (Helen Mirren) used to be the CIA's top agents, - but the secrets they know just made them the Agency's top targets.
Frank, who was the agency's most effective black ops agent of all time must now track down and reassemble the old team. First on the list is intelligence specialist Joe who is charming, disarming and lethal! Next is hysterically...
- 10/21/2010
- Den of Geek
There's a double helping of the Dane, Wall Street returns, Wallace and Gromit take up presenting – and Robyn goes for broke. Our critics pick this autumn's hottest shows
Theatre
Hamlet
Prepare for the latest battle of the princes. John Simm is first in the field at the Sheffield Crucible; then Rory Kinnear enters the running in a Nicholas Hytner production for the National Theatre. It's not, of course, a contest – but comparisons will be inevitable. Crucible, Sheffield (0114-249 6000), from 16 September; and Olivier, London SE1 (020-7452 3000), from 7 October.
The Thrill of it All
Forced Entertainment continues the British experimental tradition with an evening of vaudevillian capers, Japanese lounge music and tarnished sequins. Nuffield, Lancaster (01524 594151), 12-13 October. Then touring.
Tribes
Nina Raine follows her impressive debut play, Rabbits, with a drama about an unconventional family that has its own private language and rules. At its centre is Billy, who is deaf and...
Theatre
Hamlet
Prepare for the latest battle of the princes. John Simm is first in the field at the Sheffield Crucible; then Rory Kinnear enters the running in a Nicholas Hytner production for the National Theatre. It's not, of course, a contest – but comparisons will be inevitable. Crucible, Sheffield (0114-249 6000), from 16 September; and Olivier, London SE1 (020-7452 3000), from 7 October.
The Thrill of it All
Forced Entertainment continues the British experimental tradition with an evening of vaudevillian capers, Japanese lounge music and tarnished sequins. Nuffield, Lancaster (01524 594151), 12-13 October. Then touring.
Tribes
Nina Raine follows her impressive debut play, Rabbits, with a drama about an unconventional family that has its own private language and rules. At its centre is Billy, who is deaf and...
- 9/14/2010
- by Michael Billington, Peter Bradshaw, Andrew Clements, Robin Denselow, Alison Flood, John Fordham, Lyn Gardner, Jonathan Glancey, Brian Logan, Judith Mackrell, Alexis Petridis, Adrian Searle, Richard Vine
- The Guardian - Film News
Satire's limits will always be expanding to tackle new subjects – no matter how wicked or tragic
Like Louis XVI's decadent court at Versailles, we live in an age of ridicule. Fifty years ago, comedy of the public or professional kind was almost never fashioned out of real events or real people – past and present, the living and the dead. That other age is now amazing to recollect. Could Britain ever have lived so politely and solemnly, and with such regard for the social order and hurt to others? One night dad and I were listening to the Goons on a radio that needed time to warm up and carried the names Athlone, Home Service and Light Programme on the dial. The team of Sellers, Milligan and Secombe was at the height of its power as the cutting-edge of broadcast humour. Favourite catchphrases became sallies in the school playground. Weedy little voice (Bluebottle): "Oh,...
Like Louis XVI's decadent court at Versailles, we live in an age of ridicule. Fifty years ago, comedy of the public or professional kind was almost never fashioned out of real events or real people – past and present, the living and the dead. That other age is now amazing to recollect. Could Britain ever have lived so politely and solemnly, and with such regard for the social order and hurt to others? One night dad and I were listening to the Goons on a radio that needed time to warm up and carried the names Athlone, Home Service and Light Programme on the dial. The team of Sellers, Milligan and Secombe was at the height of its power as the cutting-edge of broadcast humour. Favourite catchphrases became sallies in the school playground. Weedy little voice (Bluebottle): "Oh,...
- 5/22/2010
- by Ian Jack
- The Guardian - Film News
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