{"id":401772,"date":"2026-04-16T15:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T15:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/401772\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T15:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T15:13:08","slug":"disney-series-launches-may-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/401772\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney+ Series Launches May 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cWelcome to the naughtiest show on television.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIt could only be <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/disney-2\/\" id=\"auto-tag_disney-2\" data-tag=\"disney-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Disney+<\/a>\u2019s and Hulu\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/rivals\/\" id=\"auto-tag_rivals\" data-tag=\"rivals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rivals<\/a> Season 2, which has now dropped full-length trailer and will launch May 15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe trailer sees the return of all the favorites from the first series, with David Tennant, Danny Dyer, Aidan Turner, Katherine Parkinson and Emily Atack reprising roles along with Alex Hassell, one of the standouts from Season 1. Hayley Atwell and Rupert Everett have joined the cast for the upcoming season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn Season 2 of one of Disney+\u2019s biggest international shows, the battle for the Central South West television franchise reaches a fever pitch as the war between Corinium and Venturer enters a dangerous new phase. More ruthless than ever, Tony Baddingham (Tennant) is determined to dismantle his rivals piece-by-piece, weaponising scandal and manipulating those closest to him to maintain his grip on power.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAmidst the hedonistic glamour of 1980s excess, the personal lives of our Rutshire heroes spiral into chaos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRivals Season 2, a Hulu original which airs on Disney+ outside the States, launches May 15 and will drop in two six-episode batches. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSince the first season concluded, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/jilly-cooper\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jilly-cooper\" data-tag=\"jilly-cooper\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jilly Cooper<\/a>, author of the original source material who was an EP on Season 1, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/10\/jilly-cooper-dead-british-novelist-rivals-creator-1236570884\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has sadly died<\/a>. Tributes came flooding in and Cooper\u2019s friend Queen Camilla visited the set of Season 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tProduced by ITV Studios-owned <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/happy-prince\/\" id=\"auto-tag_happy-prince\" data-tag=\"happy-prince\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Happy Prince<\/a>, Rivals is executive produced by Dominic Treadwell-Collins, Alexander Lamb, Felicity Blunt, Elliot Hegarty, Olivier Award-winning playwright Laura Wade, Cooper and for Disney+, Jonny Richards. Eliza Mellor returns as series producer. It is written by Treadwell-Collins, Wade, Sophie Goodhart, Sam Hoare, Mimi Hare, Clare Naylor, Sorcha Kurien-Walsh and Dare Aiyegbayo, directed by Elliot Hegarty, Jamie J Johnson and Dee Koppang O\u2019Leary.\u00a0Rivals is based on the novel of the same name, part of Cooper\u2019s bestselling Rutshire Chronicles. The series was commissioned by VP Scripted Content for Disney+ EMEA, Lee Mason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWelcome to the naughtiest show on television.\u201d It could only be Disney+\u2019s and Hulu\u2019s Rivals Season 2, which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[9618,93,177216,61,60,44250,18025,12541,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-401772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-disney","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-happy-prince","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-jilly-cooper","14":"tag-rivals","15":"tag-trailers","16":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}