{"id":480524,"date":"2026-06-16T18:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T18:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/480524\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T18:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T18:22:11","slug":"rivals-renewed-for-season-3-at-disney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/480524\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Rivals’ Renewed for Season 3 at Disney+"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDisney+<\/a> has greenlit \u201cRivals<\/a>\u201d for a third season comprised of 12 episodes.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe news comes ahead of the second half of Season 2 returning in November.<\/p>\n

\n\tBased on Jilly Cooper\u2019s iconic \u201cbonkbuster\u201d book series, the Rutshire Chronicles, \u201cRivals\u201d follows the residents of a small village in 1980s England as they hop in and out of each other\u2019s business \u2013 and beds.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe series, which is produced by Happy Prince (part of ITV Studios), stars Alex Hassell as Olympian turned politician Rupert Campbell-Black and David Tennant as television executive Tony Baddingham as well as Emily Atack and Aidan Turner, among others.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAs the dust settles post the scandalous revelations in Season 2, we see the stakes become higher and the alliances more fragile, with nothing staying buried for long,\u201d reads the logline for the third season. \u201cNew romances blossom, old flames rekindle and shocking secrets will be spilled in this third series which takes everyone\u2019s favourite rivalries to the next level. In a world of power, passion and betrayal, everyone has something to lose.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe show is available on Hulu in the U.S. and Disney+ in the U.K. and internationally<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe phenomenal response to \u2018Rivals\u2019 is a credit to the bold, irreverent and endlessly entertaining world created by Dame Jilly Cooper, our cast, creative team and production partners at Happy Prince,\u201d said Lee Mason, Disney+ EMEA VP for scripted. \u201cWe\u2019re delighted to be bringing audiences a third season on Disney+\/Hulu. Expect more ambition, more romance, more rivalries and, of course, more scandal as we return to Rutshire for another irresistible chapter.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disney+ has greenlit \u201cRivals\u201d for a third season comprised of 12 episodes. The news comes ahead of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[2398,156,111,139,69,9424,437],"class_list":["post-480524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-disney","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-rivals","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}