Rivals (Disney+)Mr Loverman (BBC One) | iPlayerLife and Death in Gaza (BBC Two) | iPlayerSo Long, Marianne (ITVX) | itv.com A “hot Tory” may be hard to imagine right now, what with the Conservative party having all the electoral allure of greying undies. Nevertheless, in Rivals (Disney+), a hot Tory is what you get. The opening scene of Dominic Treadwell-Collins and Laura Wade’s eight-part adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s 1988 “bonkbuster” is of mile high club sex in the loos of supersonic airliner Concorde. Swaggering hero, former showjumper and Tory minister for sport Rupert Campbell-Black (Alex Hassell channelling Hugh Grant levels of aristo-totty rakishness), shags a journalist to the thumping beat of Robert Palmer’s Addicted to Love.Just as 80s motifs abound (clacker balls, Thatcher, mentions of Jimmy Savile), sex is everywhere in Rivals’ moneyed fictional Rutshire. But it’s a specific Cooper-ish sex: energetic, unapologetic, extramarital; derrières wobbling…
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