Rivals will return to Hulu for a second season, the streamer announced Wednesday. The show takes place in England, in the 1980s, and stars Aidan Turner as Declan O'Hara, a journalist who traded a more acclaimed reporting role for an infotainment job.

Rivals,” Hulu and Disney+’s acclaimed drama about the ruthless British independent television industry of the 1980s, will return for Season 2, Hulu announced Wednesday. The series is based on a 1988 novel by Dame Jilly Cooper,

Jilly Cooper fans have reason to rejoice: “ Rivals ” is returning for a second season. Based on Cooper’s bestselling “bonkbuster” of the same name, the series stars Emily Atack, Aidan Turner and David Tennant as residents of a fictional English village called Rutshire where they regularly fight, flirt and fornicate.

Well, the folks at Disney+ and Hulu certainly are. After winning legions of fans with its lethally entertaining cocktail of sex, scandal, soapy melodrama, and tack-sharp writing (not to mention a star-studded cast including David Tennant,

Rivals has been renewed for a second season at Hulu, our sister site Variety reports. Based on Cooper’s bestselling novel of the same name (which was originally published in 1988) and set against the backdrop of the drama,