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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.
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.
Author Rachel Reid is touring for the deluxe edition of 'Heated Rivalry' while preparing for the release of her new novel, 'Unrivaled,' in June 2027. Filming for the show's second season is currently underway, based primarily on her 2022 sequel 'The Long Game.' Reid has expanded the roles of supporting characters like Scott Hunter and Yuna in the new book, noting that the show's massive popularity has increased fan interest in minor characters such as Luca Haas. She describes the transition to high-profile visibility as challenging but is excited about the continued expansion of the franchise.
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.
Jacob Tierney and Brendan Brady’s independent production company, Accent Aigu Entertainment, transformed the hockey romance 'Heated Rivalry' into a global hit by using a low-cost, film-style production model. The series, adapted from Rachel Reid’s novels, achieved record viewership on Crave and HBO Max despite a modest budget, proving that targeting niche audiences can yield massive returns.
Producers of the queer hockey drama 'Heated Rivalry' have confirmed that Season 2 will focus on emotional resonance rather than plot twists, drawing from Rachel Reid's novels 'The Long Game' and 'Role Model.' Filming has begun, with a spring 2027 premiere targeted for Crave and HBO Max. The season introduces new characters, including Troy Barrett and Harris Drover, though the casting of Justice Smith as Harris has sparked debate among fans regarding physical accuracy to the source material.
Heated Rivalry’s Season 2 filming has begun in Toronto, with a post from the show’s team asking fans to give the cast and crew space and avoid disrupting production. The Crave/HBO Max series, created/written/directed by Jacob Tierney and based on Reid’s hockey romance novels, will adapt The Long Game and Role Model, with new characters yet to be announced and a spring 2027 premiere window.
Jacob Tierney, creator of the hit Canadian romance series Heated Rivalry, asks fans to back off and give the cast and crew space as Season 2 begins filming in Toronto. After a standout first season on HBO Max with high viewership, the show is slated to premiere in April 2027, with Williams and Storrie returning as hockey players-turned-lovers and widespread fan attention following Season 1’s success.
Crave/HBO Max’s Heated Rivalry season 2, as teased by showrunner Jacob Tierney, will plunge Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov into much more serious territory, weaving in elements from Role Model and The Long Game while keeping the relationship at its heart; the season, co-written by Michael Goldbach and tied to The Long Game’s narrative arc, is set to premiere next year.
At BookCon 2026, author Rachel Reid and show creator Jacob Tierney discussed the rapid development of Heated Rivalry, Reid’s hands-on involvement from script to auditions, Season 2 inspiration from Reid’s Long Game, a 2027 release for her next book Unrivaled, and the show’s emphasis on queer joy and intimate storytelling that has fans buzzing.
Crave’s Heated Rivalry returns for Season 2 with creator Jacob Tierney promising a shift to a darker, more serious tone drawn from Rachel Reid’s The Long Game; set ten years after the first book, the couple Shane and Ilya navigate a more mature, danger-filled relationship with continued flirting and sex, and Tierney suggests there’s enough material to potentially split Season 2 into two installments.
Robbie G.K. says Season 2 could push beyond Kip and Scott’s public kiss from Season 1, exploring the couple’s relationship after the moment as the show potentially splits Rachel Reid’s The Long Game into two parts. The series, based on Reid’s Game Changers books and created by Jacob Tierney, centers on Kip Grady (a grad art student and smoothie barista) and Scott, a famous closeted hockey player; Season 2’s release is tentatively planned for April 2027, though it remains unclear how much of the Kip–Scott arc will be foregrounded given other book threads and potential plot splits.
Netflix has ordered Alexander, a drama series from 'Heated Rivalry' creator Jacob Tierney, adapting Annabel Lyon’s novel The Golden Mean. The show follows Aristotle’s arrival in Macedonia to tutor a volatile young Alexander, with palace intrigue, brutal war and ruthless ambition shaping their unlikely friendship as it helps alter history. Tierney will write, direct and executive produce, joined by Jason Bateman and Aggregate Films (with Brendan Brady) as executive producers.
Netflix ordered Alexander, a straight-to-series drama from Heated Rivalry creator Jacob Tierney and Brendan Brady, with Jason Bateman's Aggregate Films producing. Based on Annabel Lyon's The Golden Mean, the series follows Aristotle tutoring a young Alexander the Great amid palace intrigue, war and forbidden love, with Tierney writing and directing the adaptation.