{"id":245874,"date":"2026-01-15T10:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/245874\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T10:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:19:10","slug":"heated-rivalrys-francois-arnaud-doesnt-think-show-could-have-been-made-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/245874\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Heated Rivalry\u2019s Fran\u00e7ois Arnaud Doesn\u2019t Think Show \u201cCould Have Been Made In The U.S.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although some Heated Rivalry<\/a> fans are cross over the show\u2019s ineligibility at US awards shows, one star doesn\u2019t think the Canadian series could have been made in Hollywood.<\/p>\n

Fran\u00e7ois Arnaud<\/a>, who stars in the Crave<\/a>\/HBO Max series as gay hockey player Scott Hunter<\/a>, recently explained how the show is \u201ca huge lesson\u201d for the industry after creator Jacob Tierney<\/a> fought to adapt Rachel Reid<\/a>\u2018s Game Changer<\/a> books in his vision.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think this show could\u2019ve been made in the US,\u201d he said on CBS Mornings<\/a>. \u201cIt was set up at a big streamer before, and they had so many notes and so many thoughts about what that show could be that Jacob decided to leave them and get it made in Canada, where it was\u2014granted, a much smaller budget\u2014but he was like, \u2018I can do the show I want to make.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although some Heated Rivalry fans are cross over the show\u2019s ineligibility at US awards shows, one star doesn\u2019t…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3213,3214,321,3215,93,695,3211,61,60,270,43,3212,904,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-245874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-actors","9":"tag-actresses","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-directors","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-films","14":"tag-hollywood","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-movies","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-stars","20":"tag-television","21":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}