News about Alex Hassell

Alex Hassell has been announced as David Tennant's and Aiden Turner's co-star in the upcoming Disney+ adaptation of Jilly Cooper's raunchy 80s romance novel Rivals. English actor Alex, 43, has been acting since 2001 and has appeared in a string of prominent productions. After starring in British staples The Bill and Silent Witness, Alex bagged a role as superhero Translucent in series one of the ongoing black comedy The Boys. Two years later, he had his longest television series stint as Vicious in Cowboy Bebop, an American space Western series based on the anime of the same name. He donned an ice blonde wig again in 2022 for his role as Metatron in the final series of the BBC / HBO adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials.

The first pictures from Disney+'s steamy new drama Rivals have been released, ahead of its highly-anticipated release later this year. The racy eight-part series is based on Jilly Cooper's raunchy 1988 novel, and follows the cutthroat world of independent television in 1986. Led by David Tennant, Aidan Turner and Alex Hassell, Rivals boasts an impressively star-studded cast which also includes Emily Atack and Rufus Jones.

She is the 'queen of the bonkbuster', with a worldwide reputation for writing incredibly steamy sex scenes. However, Dame Jilly Cooper has fallen foul of sarcastic American television executives, who are worried that a forthcoming adaptation of her raunchy novel Rivals would be too much for modern viewers. Multiple scenes of the star-studded series have been reshot by bosses at a subscription service, fearing that they are inappropriate in the post-MeToo period. However, Dame Jilly's 1988 novel, which is set in the fictional county of Rutshire, should not have come as a surprise. After gaining the rights, Disney announced that the book was "full of sex" and involved "drama, excess, and shocking antics."

With her 1988 novel Rivals (inset) likely to debut on televisions next year starring Aidan Turner, David Tennant, and Alex Hassell, 86-year-old Jilly (left) has voiced her doubts about modern television. The Disney+ series will eventually be steamy, but the author told The Sun that male characters are too often depicted as'submissive,' while female characters are'so bossy.' Jilly said, "They are so bossy and dominant when they see women on the telly now." Both men must be much more submissive, which I find sad.' In the 1993 version of Jilly's book 'Riders,' Marcus Gilbert and Cecile Paoli are shown right.