Rivals is back for its second season and it's as naughty and brilliant as ever – here is what to watch this week.
May 13
Off Campus, Prime Video
Based on The Deal (2015), the first instalment in Elle Kennedy’s bestselling Briar University series, this campus-set romance leans into the irresistible charm of opposites attracting. Hannah (Ella Bright), a fiercely independent music major with zero interest in hockey culture, finds herself entangled with Garrett (Belmont Cameli), the university’s golden-boy athlete whose future on the ice is threatened by failing grades. Their arrangement is purely strategic – at least at first. She agrees to tutor him; he agrees to pose as her boyfriend, helping to spark jealousy in the direction of her long-time crush. But as their carefully constructed “relationship” begins to blur at the edges, what starts as a mutually beneficial deal soon gives way to something far less predictable.
May 15
Rivals, Disney+
Few recent dramas have embraced sheer indulgence with quite the same gusto as this high-gloss return to Rutshire Chronicles territory, a world where ambition is as abundant as the champagne and discretion is in desperately short supply. The first season thrived on its knowingly over-the-top tone, powered in large part by David Tennant, who played the ruthlessly opportunistic Lord Tony Baddingham. Against all expectations, Baddingham is back in circulation, re-entering the fray in a hyper-stylised vision of the Cotswolds where grudges never fade – they just get better dressed. Waiting for him are two familiar adversaries: media heavyweight Declan O’Hara (Aidan Turner), all smouldering authority, and the irrepressibly wayward Rupert Campbell-Black (Alex Hassell), whose charm remains as dangerous as ever. Around them swirls a cast of schemers, romantics and survivors, including Katherine Parkinson’s sharp-tongued novelist Lizzie, Claire Rushbrook’s long-suffering Monica, and Bella Maclean’s Taggie, still navigating the consequences of a particularly ill-advised entanglement. Six episodes will drop first, followed by the rest later in the year.
Dutton Ranch, Paramount+
This latest, hotly anticipated spin-off of the beloved Yellowstone turns its focus squarely on the franchise’s most magnetic pairing: Beth Dutton and Rip Wheeler. Kelly Reilly returns as Beth, the ferociously sharp-edged former wild child and daughter of the late patriarch John Dutton, once played by Kevin Costner. Alongside her is Cole Hauser as Rip Wheeler, the stoic ranch foreman whose very name feels carved from the mythology of the American West. Together, they’ve traded the plains of Montana for a new life in Texas, though peace, predictably, is not part of the relocation package.
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