Rivals, Jilly Cooper
Fans spot ‘perfect moment’ Jilly Cooper makes her long-awaited cameo in Rivals
Jilly Cooper’s 1988 bonkbuster has been adapted into a smash hit TV series on Disney+, with a stellar all-star cast including David Tennant, Danny Dyer, Aidan Turner and Emily Atack
The 1 Part Of Rivals' TV Adaptation Jilly Cooper Didn't Like
The show, adapted from Dame Jilly Coopers’ 1988 novel of the same name, features “high fences and low morals,” the book’s author says. Starring David Tennant and Aidan Turner alongside Katherine Parkinson,
Rivals: Did you spot this Dame Jilly Cooper cameo in the series?
Jilly, who served as an executive producer on the series, had a surprise cameo role in the fifth episode of the season. During the episode we see writer Lizzie Vereker (Katherine Parkinson) pay a visit to her book agent in London. They have a long lunch and during the lunch her agent reads out a particularly steamy extract from Lizzie's new book.
‘I assumed Jilly Cooper’s Rivals would be drivel – the truth surprised me’
Following on from Riders – the first in Cooper’s Rutshire Chronicles series which explores the racy showjumping set (and distinctly remembered for its risqué cover of a woman in tight white jodhpurs being spanked) – Rivals swaps the saddle for satellites, delving deep into the supposedly sexy world of television production.
'Ruthless world' of Jilly Cooper's Rivals series
A new eight-part drama, based on one of Dame Jilly Cooper's so-called "bonkbusters" and partly filmed in the West, is being streamed. Rivals, released in 1988, has been adapted for a Disney+ series with an all-star cast including Aidan Turner and David Tennant.
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Rivals and the joy of Jilly Cooper: 'No other author writes about sex as freely or courageously'
The sexual chemistry between characters leaps off the page and smoulders on screen,' says author and Jilly Cooper aficionado Daisy Buchanan.
'I read Jilly Cooper's Rivals for the first time - here are my honest thoughts'
It was, of course, Riders by Dame Jilly Cooper, the first in the Rutshire Chronicles, which has sold over one million copies in the UK since its publication in 1985. Now, the second novel in the series,
Jilly Cooper's relief at Rivals success after 'awful' adaptations of her books
The author admitted she had to force herself not to be 'horrid' about some TV shows based on her work in the past.
I'm a huge Jilly Cooper fan and Rivals is the best TV adaptation of a book ever — here's why
I am a HUGE Jilly Cooper fan. I love her books - including Rivals which has been adapted for the TV show - so much that I always joke they'd be my specialist subject if I ever went on Mastermind. I even named my historical novel-writing alter-ego,
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'Rivals' cast describe their audacious Jilly Cooper characters
National treasure Dame Jilly Cooper wrote beloved romantic novel Rivals in 1988, and it's now been adapted into a ...
We've Got Good News And Bad News For Rivals Fans Awaiting Season 2
Lastly, the author (who’s penned her own script, It’s Awfully Bad for Your Eyes, Darling) has both another 1993 Rivals TV ...
Rivals star Lisa McGrillis speaks out on working with ‘filthy’ Jilly Cooper
Rivals actress Lisa McGrillis branded Dame Jilly Cooper as ‘naughty and filthy' during an appearing on Channel 4 hit show ...
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Rivals Review: The Past as Science Fiction in Gleeful 1980s Bonkbuster
Rivals is a gleeful recreation of Dame Jilly Cooper's 1988 bonkbuster novel, one that offers the past as a kind of "Science ...