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Canadian hockey romance Heated Rivalry has won a prestigious Peabody Award.<\/p>\n
The Crave and Bell Media production, distributed by HBO Max in the U.S., became a surprise hit when it debuted in November 2025. <\/p>\n
On Thursday, it was named one of 11 winning TV shows in the entertainment field. <\/p>\n
In a news release, the Peabody Awards jurors said Heated Rivalry “balances complex themes of sexuality and emotional connection, inspiring fans and promoting non-toxic masculinity, ultimately making what was arguably the biggest cultural impact in television this year.”<\/p>\n
The show, created by Montreal director-screenwriter Jacob Tierney and based on a series of novels by Halifax author Rachel Reid, explores a secret gay relationship between fictional pro hockey players Shane Hollander (played by Hudson Williams) and Ilya Rozanov (Connor Storrie). <\/p>\n
Tierney, along with the show’s official instagram account, posted an acknowledgment of the win. <\/p>\n
“Every glance, every silence, every line crossed, this story was never simple. Honored to receive a Peabody Award for telling it the way it deserved to be told.” <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
In response, Reid commented: “So proud of everyone who made this” and added a happy crying emoji. <\/p>\n
The Directors Guild of Canada in Ontario also congratulated the team behind the show on Instagram, writing that they “couldn’t be prouder of our Members who worked on the series.”<\/p>\n
The winners of the 86th Annual Peabody Awards will be honoured at a ceremony in Los Angeles on May 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75],"class_list":["post-624764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}