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Creator Jacob Tierney released 'I’ll Believe in Anything,' an annotated collection of Season 1 scripts, while confirming Season 2 will premiere in late spring 2027. The new season adapts 'The Long Game' and excludes the 'Common Goal' storyline, focusing strictly on characters intersecting with Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov.
The second season of the hit hockey drama Heated Rivalry has added six new cast members, including Lauren Chan and Nick Stahl, as production continues for a spring 2027 release on HBO Max and Crave.
The second season of the hockey drama 'Heated Rivalry' has added six new cast members, including Brendan Morgan, David Tomlinson, Gerry Dee, Michelle Mylett, Lauren Chan, and Nick Stahl. The series, which premiered in November 2025, is set to return in spring 2027 on HBO Max and Crave. This latest round of casting expands the ensemble beyond the central romance of Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov, incorporating characters from multiple books in Rachel Reid's 'Game Changers' series. Notable reunions include creator Jacob Tierney working again with actors from 'Letterkenny' and 'Mr. D'. The season will adapt the sixth novel, 'The Long Game,' while also weaving in storylines from 'Role Model' and 'Tough Guy.'
The Crave-HBO Max series Heated Rivalry has added six actors to its second season, which is currently filming for a spring 2027 premiere. The new cast includes Brendan Morgan, David Tomlinson, Gerry Dee, Michelle Mylett, Lauren Chan, and Nick Stahl. These additions join a previously announced ensemble featuring Hudson Williams, Connor Storrie, Justice Smith, and Charlie Gillespie. The season adapts Rachel Reid's novels The Long Game and Role Model, expanding the hockey drama with new romantic subplots and professional rivalries.
Justice Smith and Charlie Gillespie have joined Season 2 of the Canadian romantic drama Heated Rivalry, which airs on HBO Max in the U.S. Smith will play Harris Drover, Ottawa’s social-media manager, while Gillespie portrays Troy Barrett, a hockey player who gets traded to Ottawa amid a tense backstory. Returning stars Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams lead Season 2, with creator Jacob Tierney at the helm; the series is produced for Crave with Bell Media and distributed internationally by Sphere Abacus.
Justice Smith and Charlie Gillespie are cast as Harris Drover and Troy Barrett in Season 2 of Crave’s Heated Rivalry, reuniting with returning leads as the hockey-romance series — based on Rachel Reid’s Game Changers — moves to a spring 2027 premiere. Production began in Canada, with Accent Aigu Entertainment producing for Crave and Sphere Abacus distributing internationally; Season 2 will continue the saga after Season 1’s Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov.
SDCC unveiled a dark, feminist reimagining of Baba Yaga in Yaga, a detective thriller series for Crave/AMC+, featuring Hudson Williams opposite Carrie-Anne Moss and Noah Reid, with a steamy, peril-filled trailer and an October 2026 Crave premiere.
Canada’s Crave has optioned Penelope Douglas’s adult romance novel Five Brothers for a TV series, following the success of its Heated Rivalry adaptation. The book centers on a woman who uncovers the secrets of the five Jaeger brothers (Macon, Army, Iron, Dallas, Trace). Bell Media plans a multi-season series, building on Crave’s track record with Heated Rivalry, which is returning for a second season in 2027.
Freddie Highmore and David Shore are reuniting to co-create and star in I'm Not Here to Hurt You, a Crave–Sony Pictures Television drama produced by Blink49 Studios; Highmore will lead with Shore as co-creator. The series follows an upright family man who spirals into crime after killing someone in a bicycle accident, driven by the noble but futile aim of never hurting anyone again, inspired by Ireland’s 'polite bank robber' story and a related Irish Independent podcast. It expands Sony’s international slate and marks a renewed collaboration between the pair.
Crave will stream Saturday Night Live in Canada this fall, with new 52nd-season episodes arriving on Crave a day after air and simulcast on CTV; the episodes join Crave’s SNL Collection, replacing Global TV. Bell Media has also picked up SNL UK for Crave, underscoring SNL’s Canadian ties and its Toronto-born creator; Connor Storrie from Heated Rivalry recently hosted SNL in Canada.
SNL will leave its longtime Canadian home on Global TV for Bell Media’s Crave and CTV platforms starting with the 52nd season, in a deal that shifts NBCUniversal’s Canadian distribution away from Corus/Global while Peacock remains U.S.-focused, reflecting ongoing streaming-driven broadcaster realignments in Canada.
Paramount Skydance’s bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery (home to HBO Max) and possible plans to merge HBO Max with Paramount+ could dramatically shift Canada’s TV market by boosting U.S. streaming dominance and pressuring Canadian players like Bell Media, whose HBO/Max content deal for Crave is currently in place but susceptible to renegotiation as cross-border content control shifts.
Bell Media chief Sean Cohan says the hit Heated Rivalry is catalyzing a new wave of Canadian drama, fueling Crave subscriber growth and a “re‑heating” binge phenomenon while Bell plans more in‑house projects (including Yaga, Slo Pitch, Beer, Lesbians and Baseball!) to take Canadian storytelling global, even though Heated Rivalry isn’t Emmy eligible.
The Hollywood Reporter confirms Heated Rivalry has been renewed for a Season 2, with production set for Summer 2026 and a U.S. debut in Spring 2027 on HBO Max (Crave in Canada). Creators Jacob Tierney and Brendan Brady say they’re writing and shooting the new season, building on the show’s Canadian roots as an adaptation of Rachel Reid’s Game Changers books. The series stars Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie as hockey rivals Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov, and Reid also announced a seventh Game Changers novel, Unrivaled, slated for a 2027 release.
Carrie-Anne Moss, Hudson Williams, Noah Reid and Clark Backo will star in Crave's half-hour drama Yaga, a contemporary reimagining of Baba Yaga based on Kat Sandler's play. Moss plays Katherine, a charismatic university professor; Reid is private investigator Rapp who arrives to investigate the disappearance of Henry Park (Williams), with Backo as detective Carson guiding the mystery in a coastal town. The series, produced by Front Street Pictures and Blink49 Studios, marks Crave's first foray into a half-hour drama, with Sandler serving as writer and showrunner.