'Heated Rivalry' Is Reportedly Filming Two More Seasons and a Holiday Movie

Crave says it has no projects to confirm. Its own releases promise only Season 2, due in spring 2027.

In a Cameo video that leaked in August, Dylan Walsh, who plays David Hollander on the hockey romance "Heated Rivalry," told a fan, "I think we're doing 12 [episodes] this time." Walsh then briefly wrote on his profile that "a video went viral that got me in trouble," Deadline reported.

His math may have been right, just not the way people read it. Deadline reported Saturday, citing unnamed sources, that Crave's series is shooting two six-episode seasons back to back. A standalone "Heated Rivalry" film is slated to shoot in December, the trade's sources said. Crave is the Canadian streamer behind the show, and its rep told Deadline there were no projects to confirm.

The movie is the surprise. Deadline's sources called it a Christmas special, and it's planned for theaters next December. It doesn't feature Shane and Ilya, the couple played by Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie. Instead it centers on the show's other Season 1 couple, Scott (François Arnaud) and Kip (Robbie G.K.), with other characters from the series mixed in.

Crave's own releases back up exactly one of those projects. Bell Media, which owns Crave, said in an Aug. 13 cast announcement that Season 2 would debut in spring 2027, with no date attached.

Deadline says an April launch is likely, and reported that neither Crave nor creator Jacob Tierney has acknowledged a Season 3. In a SiriusXM interview last month, Tierney told Andy Cohen that Season 2 runs six episodes and that filming would be done by the end of the year, according to Deadline. He didn't say what the shoot covers.

The paper trail from the sales side stops at two seasons, too. When Crave renewed the show on Dec. 12, 2025, Bell Media said its sales arm, Sphere Abacus, had sold both Seasons 1 and 2 to HBO Max for much of Asia, Latin America and Europe. HBO Max in the U.S. and Australia, which already carried Season 1, signed on for Season 2. That release called the series Crave's No. 1 original debut on record.

If Deadline's sources have the calendar right, there's hardly a gap in the schedule. The two seasons wrap at the end of November or early December, and the film starts shooting that same month. The show is made by Accent Aigu Entertainment, the company Tierney and Brendan Brady started in 2023, with money from the Canada Media Fund and the Bell Fund, according to Bell Media.

The theatrical plan has had a trial run. Right now, for a limited time, Regal, AMC and Cinemark theaters are showing Season 1 two episodes at a sitting. Deadline reported that 880 theaters took in $420,000 on Friday, on pace for what it called a strong $1.3 million opening weekend.

The holiday story has a head start, too. Rachel Reid, whose Game Changers novels the series adapts, has written a short story called "Merry Christmas, Scott and Kip!" It's about the pair's first Christmas together.

Source: Deadline, retrieved November 8, 2026. Other sources: bellmedia.ca, bellmedia.ca (2).