Rivals For anyone not familiar with Jilly Cooper, she is an iconic writer of spicy (understatement), glitzy-glam romance novels full of rich privileged people behaving very, very badly. Escapist reading at its finest. Rivals is the televised version of her book of the same name. The plot goes something like this: Lord Tony Baddingham (David Tennant) owns a local TV station and despises Rupert Campbell-Black, a freshly divorced, former show-jumper turned Conservative Minister for sport (the feeling’s mutual). Into town moves Declan O’Hara (Aidan Turner) hired to work at the aforementioned TV station, but as a former BBC presenter, has had…
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