Rivals is a world in which empires could be built, even if you didn’t fancy moving to London. We all long for a time in which the technology of the future still meant but a three-hour flight to New York

Disney+ adaptation of Jilly Cooper ’s raunchy 1988 novel about regional television production in the Cotswolds .

The titillation of Rivals lays not just in the sex scenes, but in its portrayal of an economic boom.

The 1980s was an era in which you could plausibly get rich without already being rich.