Rivals season 2 creators reveal how late author Jilly Cooper gave notes on final Hulu and Disney+ scripts just 'days' before her death: 'her fingerprints are all over this series'
Even though I'm excited for new episodes of Rivals season 2 to drop on Hulu (US) and Disney+ (international), they are already tinged with sadness.
In October 2025, it was announced that Rutshire Chronicles author Dame Jilly Cooper had died shortly after a fall aged 88. With season 2 already in production by this point, thoughts quickly turned to how the series — and its future — would be impacted by the news.
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'We miss her so much. It was incredibly hard'
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"Jilly signed off every script of the 12 and was on set for quite a lot of production as well," executive producer Alexander Lamb tells me. "So it feels that this series totally has Jilly's seal of approval. She's an exec producer...
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