★★★★☆ Add Rivals season two to your watchlist He’s on the posters and in the trailer, so it’s not a spoiler to say: Lord Tony Baddingham lives! David Tennant’s malign media tycoon ended the first season of Disney’s ripping adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s novel bleeding freely onto his own office shagpile, eyes glassy, giving off rapidly-cooling corpse vibes. But Rivals spent its debut year lovingly building the fantastic world of Rutshire, a haven of the randy upper classes in the careless 1980s, with Tony at the centre. Full of surprises as the show is, killing off a main character isn’t its style. What were those surprises, when Rivals first roared up our long gravel drive in 2024? Perhaps that depended on how au fait you were with Dame Jilly’s books. If you knew them well, you knew they had wit and heart and deceptively deep characters to go with the flagrant excess, the relentless shagging and what are now the rich period trappings, faultlessly rendered in the TV version. If you didn’t know the books …