Disney’s Rivals’ celebrities take over ‘little-known’ town

A rural town has been having its high street transformed for the filming of series two of Rivals, an adaptation of the late Dame Jilly Cooper’s books.

Corsham, Wiltshire, has featured in the Disney series before and has also been used for other productions such as Poldark.

The series is based on the Gloucestershire author’s Rutshire Chronicles series and has taken the high street back to the 1980s, tweaking shop fronts and parking classic cars.

The Rivals cast includes David Tennant, Aidan Turner, Alex Hassell, Emily Atack and Danny Dyer.