Rivals is back to steam up your TV set this spring. Season 2 of the 1980s-set British drama is coming soon, and a new trailer for the season has arrived, showcasing new cast members Hayley Atwell and Rupert Everett as well as returnees David Tennant and Alex Hassell. The new season will premiere on Disney+ on May 15.

In the new trailer, Tony, Lord Baddingham (Tennant) and Rupert Campbell-Black (Hassell) continue their war over local TV in their little corner of England. For Rupert, that means the return of his ex-wife, Helen Gordon (Atwell), who’s also the mother of his two children. In tow with her is her new husband, Malise (Everett), who also happens to be Rupert’s coach and mentor from his show-jumping days. It’s the last thing he needs, especially as the specter of a wildly inappropriate age-gap romance rears its head. Things aren’t going much better for Lord Baddingham, as he deals with enemies both without and within. Who will win this battle of wills? You’ll have to tune into Disney+ next month to find out.

What Happened in Season 1 of ‘Rivals’?

The spiteful Tony, Lord Baddingham (Tennant) is the director of Corinium, an independent TV station in the fictional British county of Rutshire. As the series opens, he hires O’Hara (Turner), a controversial Irish reporter, away from the BBC. However, the fiery O’Hara soon clashes with Baddingham’s editorial mandates, and gets involved with a rival group that wants to push Tony off the airwaves with a new station, Venturer. That group includes Tony’s arch rival, womanizing ex-Olympian Rupert Campbell-Black (Hassell), as well as local businessman Freddie Jones (Danny Dyer), and Tony’s own American programming director, Cameron Cook (Nafessa Williams), who’s having an affair with her boss. And that’s only one of the sordid affairs going on in the aptly named Rutshire; novelist Lizzie Vereker (Katherine Parkinson) is cheating on her philandering TV host husband with Freddie, and O’Hara’s marriage to Maud (Victoria Smurfit) is still damaged from her past infidelities. Meanwhile, the O’Haras’ teenage daughter, Taggie (Bella Maclean) is developing a dangerous crush on the much-older Rupert…

Rivals is adapted from the novel of the same name by the late Jilly Cooper. The series garnered a showy 95% Fresh rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes. Collider called it “a love letter to extravagance and its perils worth tuning in to.”

Season 2 of Rivals will premiere on Disney+ on May 15.

via Collider