It wouldn’t quite be the world of Rivals without it being set in the fictional county of Rutshire, a place that is based near Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire and is deep in the Cotswolds.
Of course, the world of Rutshire forms a major part of Jilly Cooper’s original Rutshire Chronicles, on which the new Disney Plus series is based – but it is, of course, entirely fictional.
The new series, according to its synopsis, “follows Rupert Campbell-Black, a notorious rake and famous showjumper before he quit for a career in politics, as he joins forces with his new neighbour Declan O’Hara to overthrow local unscrupulous television magnate Lord Tony Baddingham by bidding for his Cotswolds-based independent television franchise.”
By Radiotimes