{"id":456471,"date":"2026-02-03T21:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T21:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/456471\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T21:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T21:30:07","slug":"heated-rivalry-season-2-plans-revealed-episode-counts-new-characters-teased-connor-storrie-heated-rivalry-hudson-williams-jacob-tierney-rachel-reid-television-celebrity-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/456471\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Heated Rivalry\u2019 Season 2 Plans Revealed: Episode Counts & New Characters Teased | Connor Storrie, Heated Rivalry, Hudson Williams, Jacob Tierney, Rachel Reid, Television | Celebrity News and Gossip | Entertainment, Photos and Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jacob Tierney<\/a> is talking about how Heated Rivalry<\/a> will continue.<\/p>\n

The creator of the series spoke out in a new interview, sharing his most current plans about what the next season(s) of the show would look like based on the Rachel Reid<\/a> books.<\/p>\n

All of the Game Changer books, including the upcoming Unrivaled<\/a>, have been optioned, so there\u2019s plenty of opportunity to tell different stories in different forms, from potential spinoffs to one-off specials. <\/p>\n

Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/p>\n

When asked if he\u2019ll split The Long Game into one season or two, Jacob didn\u2019t give a clear answer. However, he said he doesn\u2019t think there needs to be more than six episodes per season. <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t need to do 10,\u201d he told LA Times.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI would always rather tighten the belt than get loosey-goosey\u2026I would rather be like, \u2018Let\u2019s see how much story we can pack into these episodes.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Jacob will also direct the episodes himself, but will bring on a co-writer for Season 2.<\/p>\n

He teased that while the show centers around Shane and Ilya (played by Hudson Williams<\/a> and Connor Storrie<\/a>), there will \u201cabsolutely\u201d be \u201cdiversions\u201d to other characters from the books.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust like you can\u2019t tell the story without Scott Hunter, you can\u2019t really tell the story without Troy Barrett,\u201d he said of a character not yet introduced on the TV show.<\/p>\n

And as for casting rumors and speculation about big names joining the cast, he said: \u201cWe need Canadian talent, and we love Canadian talent. It\u2019s not a burden, but it\u2019s also something we literally have to do to get our financing.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

If you missed it, one of the actors recently sent the Internet into a tizzy after liking a comment about his \u201cGF and BF\u201d!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacob Tierney is talking about how Heated Rivalry will continue. The creator of the series spoke out in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":["post-456471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}