David Tennant is undeniably one of the most popular British actors. Across a nearly 40-year career to date, Tennant has delivered masterful performances on both the stage and screen, winning Emmys and National Television Awards, and nominations for a BAFTA and three Olivier Awards in the process. Best loved for portraying the tenth Doctor in the sci-fi favorite Doctor Who, it’s almost impossible to pick a favorite Tennant performance, but his latest might just be his easiest to dislike.
As Tony Baddingham, Tennant infuriated audiences in all the right ways in 2024, as Rivalsbecame one of the most exciting shows on Hulu. Recently, the steamiest show on streaming made its big return, with both the spiciness and emotional intelligence dialed up a notch for Season 2. Tennant is joined in the cast for Season 2 by several returning favorite faces, including Aidan Turner‘s Declan O’Hara, Nafessa Williams‘ Cameron Cook, Alex Hassell’s Rupert Campbell-Black, Bella Maclean’s Taggie O’Hara, Danny Dyer‘s Freddie, Katherine Parkinson‘s Lizzie, and more. Season 2 also features Rupert Everett and Hayley Atwelljoining the cast.
“Rivals Season 2 surpasses Season 1 on nearly every front,” wrote Therese Lacson in her review for Collider, with this just one of the many gushing responses to Season 2 from critics. Dubbed “audacious and delicious” by a second critic and “perfect escapist entertainment” by a third, the show has eased its way to a near-perfect 97% score on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes for Season 2. Not just a hit with critics, the show continues to prove popular on streaming and is currently one of the ten most-streamed shows on Disney+ in the world. In the U.S., the show is available on Hulu.
Collider Exclusive · TV Medicine Quiz Which Fictional Hospital Would You Work Best In? The Pitt · ER · Grey’s Anatomy · House · Scrubs
Five hospitals. Five completely different ways medicine goes sideways on television — brutal, chaotic, romantic, brilliant, and ridiculous. Only one of them is the ward your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out exactly where you belong.
🚨The Pitt
🏥ER
💉Grey’s
🔬House
🩺Scrubs
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A critical patient comes through the door. What’s your first instinct? Medicine under pressure reveals who you actually are.
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Why did you go into medicine in the first place? The honest answer says more about you than the one you’d give in an interview.
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What do you actually want from the people you work with? Who you want beside you under pressure is who you are.
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You lose a patient you fought hard to save. How do you carry it? Every doctor who’s worked a long shift has had to answer this question.
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How would your colleagues describe the way you work? Your reputation on the floor is usually more accurate than your self-image.
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How do you feel about hospital protocol and procedure? Every institution has rules. What you do with them is a choice.
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What does this job cost you personally? Nobody works in medicine without paying a price. What’s yours?
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At the end of a long shift, what keeps you coming back? The answer to this question is the most honest thing about you.
Your Assignment Has Been Made You Belong In…
Your answers have pointed to one fictional hospital above all others. This is the ward your instincts, your temperament, and your particular brand of dysfunction were built for.
Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center
The Pitt
You are built for the most unsparing version of emergency medicine television has ever shown — one that puts you inside a single fifteen-hour shift and doesn’t let you look away.
You need your work to be real, not romanticised — meaning over drama, honesty over aesthetics.
You find purpose inside the work itself, not in the chaos surrounding it.
You’ve made peace with the fact that this job takes from you constantly, and gives back in ways that are harder to name.
Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center demands exactly that kind of person — and you would not want to be anywhere else.
County General Hospital, Chicago
ER
You are the person who keeps the whole floor running — not the most brilliant in the room, but possibly the most essential.
You show up, do the work, absorb the losses, and come back the next day without needing the job to be anything other than what it is.
You care about patients as individual human beings, not as cases to solve or dramas to live through.
You believe in the system even when it fails you — and you understand that emergency medicine is about holding the line just long enough.
ER is television about endurance. You have it.
Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, Seattle
Grey’s Anatomy
You came to medicine with your whole self — your ambition, your emotions, your relationships, your history — and you have never quite managed to leave any of it at the door.
You feel things fully and form deep attachments to the people you work with.
Your personal and professional lives are permanently, chaotically entangled — and that entanglement drives both your greatest disasters and your most remarkable saves.
You understand that extraordinary medicine often happens at the intersection of clinical skill and profound human connection.
It’s messy at Grey Sloan. You would not have it any other way.
Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, NJ
House
You are drawn to the problem above everything else — the symptom that doesn’t fit, the diagnosis hiding underneath the obvious one.
You’re not primarily motivated by the patient as a person — though you are capable of caring, even if you’d deny it.
You work best when the stakes are highest and the standard answer is wrong.
Princeton-Plainsboro exists to house one extraordinary, impossible mind — and everyone around that mind is there because they’re smart enough to keep up.
The only way forward here is to think harder than everyone else in the room. That is exactly what you do.
Sacred Heart Hospital, California
Scrubs
You understand that medicine is tragic and absurd in almost equal measure — and that the only sane response is to hold both of those things at the same time.
You are warm, self-aware, and funnier than most people in your field.
You use humour to get through terrible moments — and at Sacred Heart, that’s not a flaw, it’s a survival strategy.
You lean on the people around you and let them lean back. The laughter and the grief are genuinely inseparable here.
Scrubs is a show about learning to become someone worthy of the job. You are still very much in the middle of that process — which is exactly right.
David Tennant Just Appeared in a Hit Netflix Series
Not just the devious villain of one of Hulu’s best shows, Tennant has also now appeared in one of the most-watched shows on Netflix. Much to the surprise of viewers, Tennant appeared in the final episode of The Four Seasons Season 2 as Gianpero, potentially setting up the third season, with fans hoping he will receive a recurring role if the show returns. An adaptation of the 1981 movie of the same name, The Four Seasons is currently the second-most-watched series on Netflix in the U.S., losing out on the top spot to Michael Jackson: The Verdict.
Rivals is streaming now on Hulu and Disney+. For more updates on the latest shows, stay tuned to Collider.
Release Date
October 18, 2024
Network
Disney+
Directors
Dee Koppang O’Leary, Alexandra Brodski, Elliot Hegarty
