‘Heated Rivalry’ Officially Scores Season 3 Renewal and a Movie

Heated Rivalry took the world by storm when it premiered last year, but the hockey romance series is only just getting started. After already getting renewed for Season 2, Deadline has revealed that not only has the series been renewed for Season 3 early, but it is already starting filming, with Seasons 2 and 3 shooting back to back. And that’s not all, as in addition to two more seasons, Deadline has also learned that a Heated Rivalry movie is also in the works.

Starring Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie (the latter of whom is reportedly in talks for the villain of Ryan Gosling‘s Ghost Rider movie), the Crave original series follows two rival hockey players who are doing their best to level up in the notoriously aggressive sport. However, the more time the two players spend with each other, the more they start to develop complicated and unexpected romantic feelings for each other, leading to all sorts of complications for themselves and their hockey careers. After being picked up by HBO as a U.S. distributor, Heated Rivalry skyrocketed in popularity, even giving longtime hits like House of the Dragon and The Pitt a run for their money as a frequent No. 1 streaming chart topper.

According to Deadline, filming for both Seasons 2 and 3 of Heated Rivalry are expected to wrap filming as early as this month/early December at the latest. Production on the movie is reportedly moving at a lightning-fast pace, with filming on it expected to begin right after in December. However, Deadline also reports that Williams and Storie will not appear in the movie, with the report suggesting that François Arnaud and Robbie G.K. will be the focus.

Four of the largest communities on the planet, and four completely
different reasons to belong to one. Here is yours, what it would give you, and the argument you
would be having within a week.

You belong to the fandom that is really about comfort. Hogwarts
works on people because it is a place rather than a plot, and the pull is not the wizard war
so much as the corridors, the food, the weather and the sense that somebody is expecting
you.

• You are drawn to belonging, which is why this fandom sorted itself into houses within
  about five minutes and has never stopped.
• This is the most social of the four, and the one most likely to know which type every
  single person in your life would be.
• The books are built to be reread rather than analysed, and rereading is exactly what you
  do with things you love.
• The new HBO series is bringing the whole thing back one book at a time, which means the
  arguments are about to start all over again.

You belong to the deepest fandom on this list, the one where
somebody has always read further than you and is quietly delighted to say so. Middle-earth
rewards patience more than any other world in popular culture.

• You like the sense that the story you are reading is only the visible part of something
  enormous, which is precisely how Tolkien built it.
• This fandom takes adaptation seriously to a degree that other fandoms find slightly
  alarming, and it has good reasons for that.
• Your favourite thing about the books is probably the bit that is not action at all,
  which is the walking, the songs and the long goodbyes.
• Nobody here thinks heroism belongs to the powerful, and the whole story exists to make
  that argument.

You belong to the loudest and largest tent of the four, the one
where three generations are all watching the same thing and none of them agree about any of
it. That disagreement is not a flaw in this fandom, it is the main activity.

• You want something you can share with absolutely everybody, from a six year old to a
  grandparent, and this is the only one on the list that really does that.
• Nobody argues like Star Wars fans argue, and the argument has been running since roughly
  1980 with no sign of resolution.
• The pull here is sensory before it is narrative, since it is the sound design, the score
  and the look of a used and dented galaxy.
• You would be first in the queue, in costume, with strong opinions and a genuinely good
  time.

You belong to the thinking fandom, the one that turns up for the
argument rather than the explosion. Trek has always been a series of ethical problems in
space, and the people who love it love being asked what they would have done.

• You are an optimist in a way that is currently unfashionable, and this is the only major
  franchise still willing to say the future might be better.
• The best episodes are the ones where nobody fires anything, which is a sentence that
  makes perfect sense to this fandom and to nobody else.
• Starfleet Academy brought the franchise back to a classroom in 2026, which is
  appropriate, because Trek has always been a bit of a seminar.
• You would want the conversation afterwards more than the episode itself, and here you
  will always find somebody willing to have it.

What Else Is Coming to HBO Max?

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In addition to Heated Rivalry Season 2, which is expected to debut in 2027, HBO Max’s upcoming slate is nothing short of explosive. Starting in early 2027, HBO’s monster hit medical procedural The Pitt will return for its third season, bringing Noah Wyle’s famed hospital to a much colder winter setting. Additionally, the Game of Thrones universe will also return with A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Season 2, bringing the more lighthearted side of Westeros once again.

Heated Rivalry Season 2 is expected to debut in April 2027 on HBO Max. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.

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